The Extracurricular Activity of Upper-Graders in Prolonged-Day Schools

Abstract

In the organization of extracurricular work, a prolonged-day school has a number of indisputable advantages over all other types of schools. Among these advantages are: the continuity and integration of school and nonschool influences; the interrelationship between the lesson and extracurricular activities; the close relation between studies and other types of activity; their systematic nature; and the diversity and sequence of extracurricular activities. In the second half of the school day, teachers and specialists offer pedagogical supervision, and every subject teacher takes part in organizing the extracurricular educational activity of school pupils. The author spent three years as a senior grade-level teacher at one such school (School No. 146 in Moscow) studying the basic stages of including pupils in extracurricular activities, the nature of their activity in clubs and the pupil collective, and their actual striving for broad development. The findings were used in educational work with upper-grade...