PEER-TUTORING AS A NEW PARADIGM FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS COMPETENCES OF THE XXI CENTURY

Abstract

Higher education institutions in Ukraine have faced requirements related to the quality of teaching and learning. Constant technological evolution, the rapid spread of scientific knowledge, and constructivist views on learning call into question the veracity of the information given to students during lectures. The article examines the problems and transformations in educational and methodological processes stimulated by the Bologna process. Pedagogical processes aim to go beyond simple feedback and should become a research, constructive and critical component of the educational process. Addressing these issues is important for academics to acquire new competencies and implement new teaching practices in their work. It is proposed to use tutoring practices to organize the educational process of higher education institutions of Ukraine. Tutoring at the current stage is designed to meet the need of students to support and build an individual educational route. Due to its content and wide possibilities, tutoring has many aspects, features and can be implemented in different modes. Tutoring is actively used in many international universities, where tutors play an intermediary role between a professor and a student and, at the same time, are responsible for one or more students. Peculiarities of peer-tutoring are considered. It has been proven that peer-tutoring contributes to improving the competencies of a person of the future. The use of tutoring methods of education contributes to improving the knowledge of students in various subjects, makes them active and independent participants in the educational process. In the age of online learning, the student-tutor relationship can be critical in helping some struggling students become more connected to their student community and better able to solve academic problems.Tutoring as an innovative educational technology is in demand in the practice of higher education institutions of Ukraine. Future tutoring practices will become a part of educational programs, and institutions of higher education will begin to look at tutoring as a real opportunity to develop the competencies of a person of the future.