REFLECTION ON THE EXPERIMENTAL MODEL OF A CHESS TEACHER’S COMPETENCES (analyses and interpretations)

Abstract

Chess teaching approach in junior classes of primary schools is discussed in the article, considering it as a leading educational activity, as it completely reflects the essence of psychological renovation. Chess education is considered to be the unique display of resistant process of aimed unification of educational activity, the result of which are the actions with certain characteristics (scientific, systematic, generalized, etc.). The idea of junior school education can be newly interpreted in the process of chess teaching. In this context the model of professional competences of a chess teacher, which is the means of the formation of academic activity, must be considered and checked in primary schools as well. Thus, the purpose of the research is to reveal the real place of teaching of chess as a leading activity and to suggest a new model of competencies with the perspective of cognitive block and activation of cognitions. During the research, the following methods have been used: theoretical analysis, modeling, combination of empirical studies. It has been revealed that chess education in primary school is built with the mechanism of combining suitable learning activities, which in its cognitive nature reflects the entire element of the competences of the chess teacher.