Representations about the subject of future activities by students in the classroom profile training

The article analyzes the problem of profile education in the modern education system and its role in the pre-profile training of students at the senior level of secondary school. The forms of profile training organization are considered. It is shown that the training of high school students in specialized classes promotes conscious professional choice based on holistic, complete and adequate ideas about the future profession, ideas about their own abilities and professional preferences, contributes to the successful building of an individual educational route. The respondents were senior pupils of specialized and non-specialized classes of secondary schools in the number of 115 people. The following methods were used: “the Questionnaire aimed at studying the ideas about the object of activity (E. I. Rogova), the test method of J. Golland to determine the type of professional orientation of the individual. Methods of mathematical and statistical processing. The results of empirical research of professional representations of senior pupils of educational organizations are presented