Activity In School Children Research Articles

The Socially Useful Activity of Schoolchildren

The Socially Useful Activity of Schoolchildren

Cultivating Independence and Creative Activity in Schoolchildren in the Process of Teaching

task of cultivating independence and creative activity in the younger generation is inherent in the development of our society. As N. S. Khrushchev said at the 13th Komsomol Congress: The present conditions for the building of communism call for highly-educated people who know how to solve the most intricate tasks and can orient themselves boldly in all fields of science and technology. (1, p. 10) training of this kind of people must begin in school.

Teaching Mathematics in Connection with the Production Activity of Schoolchildren

Work in modern, highly-automated and mechanized industry and agriculture cannot be efficient without a knowledge of mathematics. Our schools with production training programs not only prepare students for practical work but also organize their work in industry and provide them with specific habits and skills in certain trades. In many cases the process of learning skills involves mathematical calculations, measurements and drawing. All these operations are based on knowledge of mathematics learned in school; therefore mathematics, together with the other general-education subjects, forms the basis of polytechnic and vocational training.

The Heuristic Method and its Place in Teaching

The problem of teaching methods (depending on their content, classification, criteria of selection) cannot be resolved without a study of their relation to ways of cognitive activity of school children and to the content of education.

Techniques for Developing Intellectual Activity in School Children

In the teaching process, formation in the school child of techniques of intellectual activity, has an important place. Mastering these techniques means learning (with the teacher's help), how to carry new tasks in theory or practice through to a solution, that is, to apply knowledge to new situations, Developing techniques is the crystallization or generalization of knowledge about how to solve a particular problem, and skill in applying these methods to school work. One method, necessary to master a given discipline, is special; another may be common to different subjects. The first, for example, applies to the independent determination of the right and left bank of a river (in geography), or the independent analysis of a drawing, etc. (in geometry). These techniques allow students to use material in a given discipline, taking its peculiarities into account, to acquire a fund of knowledge, and understanding in conformity with general law. Development of these techniques has basic significance for the activization of pupils' intellectual activity.