HOW TO DEVELOP SOFT AND HARD SKILLS THROUGH THE USE OF STEM

A high need for early purposeful development of students' skills in computational thinking, research work, interest in design and team work, as well as obtaining specific engineering and technological results is observed in the educational systems of many countries of the world. The basis for training specialists in the field of high technologies is STEM education. Currently, STEM education is actively developing as a direction using interdisciplinary and applied approaches, the basic idea of which is the integration of natural sciences, technology, modeling and mathematics. The article presents the importance of the STEM approach in the formation of hard and soft skills for training and professional development, the history of the competence-based approach, classification of key competencies, methods of their formation, the emphasis is placed on the potential of the educational technologies used