In the article, the importance of using effective innovative technologies for the formation of environmental competence of students and organization of the environmental education process, pedagogical experience of developing environmental competence of students, components of environmental competence of students, stages of means and forms of development of environmental competence of students, five main components in the technology of development of ecological competence, ecological competence the general goal of formation is defined as the carrier of ecocentric type of ecological consciousness, the meaning of ecological values and ecological activities, ecological thinking, ecological thinking, the creation of pedagogical conditions for the formation of an ecologically clean person, ecological culture, general natural principles of development in its formation, ecological knowledge, formed value -motivational relations, issues of comprehensive effective education aimed at the implementation of ecological activities for the preservation of the socio-natural environment based on specific characteristics are covered in detail.
