Strategies for applying a competency-based approach in STEM training

The article presents strategies for skills development and for measuring and evaluating students' competencies and some approaches for evaluating the effectiveness of pedagogical practices in STEM training.In an innovative high school with a language profile and opportunities for additional profiling in mathematics, IT, entrepreneurship, various STEM initiatives have been implemented, in which students are researchers of real problems, creators of authentic content and creative products.The article shares the experience of teachers in their activities in creating: the structure of Project Based Learning /PBL/; the formulation of learning objectives; planning individual lessons; the involvement of students in the creative implementation of the planned tasks; monitoring their motivation and commitment; the assessment of the competencies acquired by the students in different fields; the organization of teacher work teams.Details of the place of study, models of interaction between university professors and professors are presented. The mechanisms for planning learning scenarios are studied, the results of PBL are analyzed, and practices for development of various competencies are indicated. The applied methodological approaches are commented on, the tools for evaluation of the results are analyzed, the challenges in the work are described and the proposed possibilities for overcoming them are described.