Matviichuk O. Methodological foundations of implementing the principle of succession in teaching physics at general education schools and technical universities

This thesis offers the original model of implementing the principle of succession in teaching physics at general education schools and technical universities in the conditions of its organization featuring a competence-based approach lying at its core. Based on the original model, the author has pioneered a methodological system of implementing the principle of succession in teaching physics, aimed at achieving conformity between the existing level of subject competence in graduates of general education schools and the level required for the effective formation of basics of professional competence in students of technical universities studying general physics. The following methodological approaches to realization of components of the proposed methodological system of succession in teaching physics at general education schools and technical universities were developed and implemented in academic process: methodology of developing practical skills in students while solving physics problems; methodology of using virtual simulators during educational experiments; methodology of developing skills in organization of independent studies in high school and technical universities' first-year students. A diagnostics methodology was developed for the purpose of establishing reasons that cause problems with implementation of the principle of succession in teaching physics between general education schools and technical universities.