Practical experience of soft skills formation in students of pedagogical HEIs

Modern policy in the field of higher education determines the strategic directions of vocational education aimed at the needs of society and future employers, including the high quality of training for graduates of HEIs, including future teachers. Most students really think about self-development, but only half build their development trajectory in the process of vocational training. It has been proven that soft skills develop more actively during participation in educational and social activities, since students have the opportunity to constantly develop and improve these skills. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the need for the formation of soft skills in students and the presentation of practical experience in the formation of soft skills during the teaching of academic disciplines in the pedagogical cycle. The article presents approaches to the classification of students' soft skills. The authors of the article consider the ways of organizing activities for the formation of soft skills in students, including practical experience in their formation in the academic disciplines of the pedagogical cycle, as well as during extracurricular work. As the most practiced technologies for the formation and development of soft skills in classroom and extracurricular activities, one can single out: information and communication technologies, technologies for the development of critical thinking, project technologies, technologies for problem-based learning, case technologies, technologies for creating a subject-developing environment, learning technologies in cooperation , technology research activities and traditional technologies.