Increasing the level of self-organization and self-development competences is an urgent issue for students and graduates. The author considers applying a project method to be an effective way of developing self-organisation in students. However, it is very important to choose the type of a project which can ensure achieving the goal of increasing the level of self-organisation in learners. Individual practice-oriented long-term projects are viewed as the best option. On the basis of the research works analysis we single out three main stages of project activities. They are the preparatory stage, the stage of realising the project and the final stage. At the same time a project is only the part of an individual programme developed by a student in collaborative work with their teacher. The article presents a scheme of an individual educational trajectory the implementation of which will result in an increased level of student’s self-organisation. Creating individual trajectories requires a special type of interaction between the teacher and the student. It is necessary to provide pedagogical support of students in the process of increasing their self-organization level. Teacher’s help and teacher’s support being forms of pedagogical support should be used in creating primary situations in which a student can develop an individual educational trajectory, and secondary situations in which he or she can implement it and achieve a higher level of self-organisation.