Впровадження квест-технологій туристично- краєзнавчого змісту в процесі підготовки майбутніх вчителів фізичної культури

Abstract

The article is devoted to the use of quest technologies in the process of teaching tourism and local history courses to students majoring in «Secondary Education (Physical Education)» specialty. The author defines the stages of the web quest as preparatory, main, final, and characterizes their main tasks. The activities of participants in the educational process during the each stage are analyzed. Based on own practical experience, the author formulates the methodological requirements for organizing and conducting a WebQuest: the correspondence of the quest content to the age and level of students’ training, clear instructions to students for completing the WebQuest, a developed system of control over the implementation of tasks, visibility, aesthetics of the design. It is argued that quest technologies provide possibilities for optimizing educational process in the online format, namely: generating tasks of various degrees of complexity and their correction, participation of a large number of students in real time, a wide range of tools for design, and incorporation of different information into the WebQuest. The author of the article characterizes main components of the WebQuest: motivational, informative, practical, evaluative, communicative, emotional, and presents the activities for each component on both the teacher’s and the student’s side. The WebQuest «Pearls of Ukraine» that was created and tested for studying tourism and local history courses by students majoring in Secondary Education (Physical Education) specialty is presented as an example. Its content, design features, the principle of tasks introduction, and the emotional aspect of the webquest are described. The list of topics on teaching tourism and local history courses with the use of WebQuest technologies is proposed. Keywords: WebQuest, distance learning, stages of WebQuest, components of WebQuest, educational courses on tourism and local history.