Master’s students of the USUST Faculty of Physical Culture and Sports successfully completed their research and professional internship.

On March 27, 2026, the SEI ‘Prydniprovska State Academy of Physical Culture and Sports’of USUST held the defense of research and professional training results by first-year students pursuing the second (Master’s) level of higher education at the Faculty of Physical Culture and Sports under the educational and professional program ‘Physical Culture and Sports’.
 
The internship was supervised by Associate Professors of the Department of Theory and Methods of Sports Training, Oleksandr Koshcheiev and Nataliia Nesterenko, and was aimed at developing professional competencies of future specialists.
 
The development of learning outcomes through a specially designed training program had a positive impact on students to be ready for research, teaching, and management activities. During their research and professional internship, the students got acquainted with career development opportunities, as well as the structure, content, and specific features of the work of sports schools and administrative bodies in the field of physical culture and sports, including:
  • MEEI of the Dnipro City Council ‘Specialized Children and Youth Olympic Reserve Sports School No. 5 named after M. I. Hovorunov’ ;
  • MEEI ‘Specialized Children and Youth Olympic Reserve Sports School No. 6’;
  • MEEI of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council ‘Dnipropetrovsk Regional Specialized Children and Youth Sports School for Persons with Disabilities’;
  • Regional branch of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine in Dnipropetrovsk region;
  • Sports Department of the Humanitarian Policy Department of the Dnipro City Council, etc.

A distinctive feature of the organization of this research and professional internship  was the opportunity for higher education students to gain professional experience in organizing and implementing the educational process at the SEI ‘Prydniprovska State Academy of Physical Culture and Sports’. During their practical training, the students developed skills in conducting classes in the disciplines taught at the Faculty of Physical Culture and Sports. They delivered informative and methodologically substantiated presentations at a high professional level and applied widely recognized techniques of pedagogical mastery and teaching artistry.

Throughout the period of research and professional internship, the Master’s students developed key communicative and cognitive competencies, including the ability to analyze and critically evaluate information, identify problems, and make well-grounded decisions. They also achieved an effective integration of theoretical, research, and practical training, which contributed to their professional adaptation to work as teachers and academic staff.