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The priority goal of modernizing the Russian education system is to ensure a high quality of knowledge. The psychological and counseling service is capable of implementing many qualitative changes in the higher education system. The development of the psychological and counseling service is due to its role in the modernization of Russian education, on the one hand, and the growing need for educational psychologists, on the other. The outflow of psychologists from the education system negatively affects the quality of the services and the image of the psychological and counseling service in education and society as a whole. Consequently, the career and personal development of a psychologist in the educational organization of higher education requires special research. The psychological support for an entry-level psychologist is necessary during the period of his/her professional development. The peculiarities of the psychological and counseling service require that a psychologist independently identify the directions and priorities of professional activity and show initiative in organizing the work and assessing its effectiveness. This, as a rule, is difficult for an entry-level educational psychologist. Certain difficulties for an entry-level psychologist are associated with the specifics of professional psychological and counseling activity. The tools of the professional activity of a trained psychologist are the personal and professional qualities, skills and abilities. Therefore, specific requirements are imposed on the personal and professional qualities of a psychologist. At the same time, in the professional environment, there are no unified standards for the personality of a psychologist and criteria for assessing the degree of his/her professionalism. Despite the constant updating of research in the field of psychological support for education, the identification of the necessary conditions for the training of a high-level specialist, the contradiction between the demand of modern society for a well-trained specialist and the insufficient level of readiness of young specialists for productive professional activity is deepening. An educational psychologist beginning to work at a university turns out to be unable to interact in a professional environment and experiences difficulties in establishing contacts with students and their parents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is devoted to the formation of a strategy for the digitalization of education in present-date conditions. It is established that the very structure of training and the organization of the educational process change fundamentally in the course of digitalization. These changes will require both the selection of material for creating courses and organizing them, as well as for the management of the educational institution. It is proved that the resulting educational environment can be implemented according to several algorithms, of which each has the priority of existence. Cost-free developments of specialized Internet resources, as well as paid platforms are among the most significant options to implement educational content. It is revealed that the use of new information and communication technologies is only an initial condition for the further development of digital learning, whose assessment criterion is its usefulness for students in the current context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At present, the problem of sustaining the law-abiding behavior of minors in educational institutions, identifying and eliminating the causes and conditions that contribute to the development of deviant behavior of students is becoming more and more topical. This paper presents the results of a monitoring study of the current state of the activities carried out by educational institutions to form the law-abiding behavior of minors in the territorial entities of the Russian Federation. It also presents the results of a theoretical study of the foreign experience of educational institutions in the framework of maintaining the law-abiding behavior of minors in the educational environment. The conclusions have been drawn that a system-activity approach should be the basis of an educational impact in educational institutions which will provide: the formation of students’ readiness for self-development; the design and construction of a social environment for the development of students based on moral principles, traditional Russian values, relevant scientific knowledge and skills, respect for the traditions of the multinational, multicultural and multiconfessional Russian society; active educational and cognitive activities of students; building educational and moral education activity, taking account of the individual age-related psychological and physiological characteristics of students and with a focus on educational results. The materials of the paper are part of a large-scale study within the framework of the "Conception for the development of a system for the prevention of neglect and juvenile delinquency for the period up to 2020", conducted by a team of scientists from 2017 to 2020, whose scientific interests lie in the study of the problem of deviant behavior of minors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article outlines the possibilities of using a University Electronic Information-Educational Environment (EIEE) that facilitates the University educational process in the context of a pandemic considering the variety of applicable e-learning tools and difficulties encountered by teachers and students in organizing and implementing distance learning within this period. The major objective of the article is revealing the didactic potential and technologies for providing remote access to University educational resources for arranging the educational process. Study results. The study identified E-resources and electronic environment activities that found to be the most popular between educational process participants in the period of forced transition to distance learning. Besides, the authors list the main difficulties in distance learning arrangement and suggested ways in their overcoming aided by EIEE didactic possibilities and potential. The principal research methods are questionnaire survey, expert assessment method and statistical processing of quantitative research results. The practical implications of the study comprise recommendations development for distance learning arrangement providing for modifying various components of students’ training system in higher education institutions, which is especially important not only in the context of a pandemic, but also under standard academic situations. The paper sets the direction of further research in upgrading the education system. The materials of the article can be helpful to teachers of higher educational institutions, further education establishments, to heads of educational institutions and school teachers in resolving the issues of organizing educational activities in the context of a pandemic for successful fulfillment of the basic educational programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]