THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF STEM EDUCATION OF STUDENTS

STEM education is a series of sequentially arranged learning programs for students with the purpose of preparing them for productive activities and education by forming levels of competences sufficient for productive activities. It covers natural sciences, technologies, technical creativity, mathematics and is aimed at training specialists (bio and nanotechnology, programmers, IT specialists, engineers, etc.) to ensure industry development. The introduction of STEM education and the development in the individual of abilities and aptitudes for research and analytical work, experimentation and critical thinking in the conditions of the use of the latest technologies will allow to increase the GDP of Ukraine by creating the basis for the formation of high added value in the labor product. 
One of the key tasks of STEM education is to ensure that the student's personality reaches a new level of development thanks to the formation of qualities and values for the purposeful realization of personal and socially significant goals. The realization of creative potential, abilities and aptitudes in this process contributes to the formation of a multifaceted psychological and socio-professional experience. 
As a result of the student's psychological activity, proposed in the process of STEM-education, competencies should be harmonized according to the components of the psychological sphere: cognitive (knowledge); operational and technological (activity); motivational (emotional); ethical; social; behavioral This will enable students at the stages of adaptation, individualization and integration to reach a self-sufficient level of autonomy and competitiveness due to the proposed algorithm of key activities.