The article deals with the historical experience of common activities of the scientists of the Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical University and the education workers of the Volgograd region in the development and implementation of the ideas of continuous pedagogical education. The author describes the structure of the scientific, productive and educational complex, the role of the university in it as a structure-forming component.

The articledeals with pedagogical means in the context of development of the system approach in pedagogic research. Based on the category of integrity,the urgent issue of the theory of means is under consideration. The generalized criteria of integrity of the personal quality forming system are defined and formulated.

The article deals with the choice of a task as the means of development of the ability to use knowledge in practice. It is shown that the solution of tasks as the activity should have the most “common points” with the basic forms of social and historical experience. The criteria of the system approach to the tasks use in teaching students are revealed in the article.