The presented article is devoted to one of the most important topics of pedagogy — the recontextualization of the curriculum. Foreign studies (the theory of B. Bernstein) link the recontextualization of the curriculum with the freedom of the educational actors in the struggle for power over it. This approach shows the mechanisms of curriculum recontextualization and the interaction of teachers due to the control the structural elements of lesson. Authors offer an attempt to analyze interpretations of the curriculum by the participants of the teacher’s competitions. As a fundamental conclusion, the author develops the thesis about the dominance of the teacher’s power over all elements of the pedagogical design of the lesson and the formation of a teaching norm, reduced in its essence and potential.

The article reveals the educational potential of the discipline “Educational activity in a modern school”, which is implemented within the framework of the training direction 44.03.05 Pedagogical education (with two training profiles) in the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “Kaluga State University named after K. E. Tsiolkovski” by the Department of Pedagogy. The authors describe in detail what skills and competencies can be developed through practical classes of this discipline and provide step-by-step instructions for their implementation.