INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COMPETENCE AS A STRUCTURE-FORMING COMPONENT OF THE TRAINING OF FORESTRY SPECIALISTS
Authors: GRУNYOVA M. 
Published: October 2022

The article reveals the essence and component composition of informatics-technological competence as a structural component of the training of forestry specialists. The types of professional activity of forestry specialists are established: production-technological, organizational-management, scientific-research, design-construction. The specifics of the forestry engineer's professional activity are revealed. Based on the analysis of scientific sources, definitions of the concepts: "competence", "professional competence", "types of competence", "information", "technology", "information technology activity of a forestry engineer" "information technology competence of a forestry engineer" are given. Basic competencies are distinguished in the structure of professional competence of a forestry engineer: special, project-research, environmental, organizational-communicative, individual, informatics-technological. The specifics of the conditions for the implementation of production processes in the forestry industry are considered. Approaches to the concept of "informatics and technological competence" are revealed. The first of them characterizes the ability to use software and communication means of information processing (in this case, technology means a set of technical and hardware tools (computer equipment, communication lines, telecommunications devices, etc., which provides this process). The second approach is based on the application means of information and communication technologies in the professional activity of a specialist to solve production tasks (technology means a certain sphere of human activity).

In the structure of informatics-technological competence, motivational-value, cognitive, functional-activity and reflexive components are distinguished. The motivational-value component consists of motives and value attitudes, which are characterized by personal interest in working with information sources, determine the need to study computer technologies from the point of view of their application in professional activities, and determine the motivated focus of the specialist on functioning in the conditions of the information environment. The cognitive component includes a set of such theoretical knowledge that reflects the intellectual development of the individual, such as an understanding of the unity and integrity of the scientific picture of the world, the presence of a system of methodological knowledge and categories, the ability to establish intra- and inter-subject connections regarding various scientific concepts and methods, etc. The functional-activity component, being aimed at the practical use of the acquired knowledge, reflects the active, active nature of competence and is a set of knowledge, abilities and skills necessary for independent implementation of information technology activities. The reflective component allows the individual to consider and adequately evaluate the results of the activity, showing the ability to consciously and independently implement and regulate the level of control of one's own development and personal achievements. Coordination of components with professionally important qualities of a specialist was carried out.