РАЗВИТИЕ ИНТЕЛЛЕКТУАЛЬНО-ТВОРЧЕСКОГО ПОТЕНЦИАЛА МЛАДШИХ ШКОЛЬНИКОВ В УЧЕБНОЙ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ

Abstract

The article presents the results of the research of junior students intellectual and creative potential in extracurricular activities in a comprehensive school. The term intellectual and creative potential and its components were defined by using systematic and integral approach. A students club is one the form of extracurricular activity. It also provides great opportunities in early diagnostics and intellectual and creative potential development. The aim of the present research was to prove the effectiveness of pedagogical terms of intellectual and creative potential development of junior students. So the main aim, principles, values and the subject matter of the extracurricular program were described. The results of the program in three main directions were also clarified. The total development of all intellectual and creative potential components involves the creation of a special motivating creative surrounding. Cognitive processes development was based on junior students’ language development, the enlargement of the vocabulary, the information finding skills. Creative and motivating components were cultivated by organizing students’ project and research activities and using creative thinking tasks and special creative activities in extracurricular classes. The effectiveness of pedagogical terms of intellectual and creative potential development was proved with the results of control diagnostics among the students. Positive changes were marked in cognitive, creative and motivating components. The statistic appraisal of control diagnostics results also confirms the hypothesis of our research. So the effective intellectual and creative potential development is possible in a motivating creative surrounding in extracurricular activities with complex development of all components.