THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERACTIVE METHODS IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

Abstract

Interactive teaching methods organize the learning process as the teachers’ and students’creativity combination. The use of these methods in the educational process is based onthe principles of scientific quality, informativeness and self-development, the relationshipbetween theory and practice, and the optimal combination of individual and collectiveactivity. An important feature of interactive games is their ability to motivate the studentfor learning, for socialization and professional development promotion. Moreover, teachersshould provide an opportunity to test knowledge in practice and in an urgent situation,and integrate students’ skills and abilities.The aim of the work – to review and justify the use of interactive teaching methods, aswell as business and role-playing games in a medical institution of higher education andto propose a brainstorming method for practical training. Іnteractive teaching methodsinclude creative tasks, small group work and educational games, the use of publicresources (inviting a specialist, attending thematic excursions), involving students insocial projects, studying the material through an interactive lecture, student- teacher andpeer-to-peer methodologies, working with visual materials, using and analyzing video andaudio materials, the case method, analyzing a situation from the participant’s practice,testing, questionnaires, an exam with further analysis of the result. The use of interactiveteaching methods ensures the activation of mental activity, leadership qualities of thestudent, develops clinical and critical thinking of the future specialist. The practice ofapplying the «brainstorming» method is considered to be promising for improving thequality of knowledge acquisition, it is a simple technique; its methodology is easy tounderstand and also to apply in the course of practical activities of the teacher.Conclusions. Game-based teaching methods in higher education can be the basis forpurposeful modeling of the integral structure of the future doctor’s professional activity.The main advantages of interactive teaching methods are the possibility of activatingstudents’ independent cognitive and mental activity, increasing motivation to studythe discipline, increasing self-esteem in the process of obtaining positive results, anddeveloping skills in modern information technology. The main goal and essence ofthe brainstorming method is to improve the training of specialists, their training anddevelopment of professional skills to a high level of qualification. This method stimulatesthe intuitive thinking in the process of searching for ideas and suggestions, developscommunication skills and group work, develops clinical thinking, and increases theeffectiveness of decisions.