A lesson in a modern school often resembles some kind of action, a stage performance, and the teacher looks like either a magician with a magic wand, or a conductor skillfully leading his orchestra - class.
Highlights of teaching methodology
The teaching methods used by the teacher in the lesson depend primarily on the tasks and goals that are set at each particular lesson in particular and when passing certain topics in general. Their choice is influenced, in addition, by the age group of students, the degree of their preparedness and many other factors. So, research forms and methods of work are most often used in high school, and games - in junior and secondary.
At the same time, there are some teaching methods that are considered universal. Let's take word art. It is equally effective for both the Russian language and literature, and can be successfully used from the first grade to the last. It's not just about special development lessonsspeech, but also everyday. Characterize the hero of the work, explain the conflict or the role of the landscape, retell the plot, analyze the author's point of view - the student encounters all this in almost every lesson in literature. And the teaching methods associated with verbal drawing help to concentrate, identify cause-and-effect relationships, develop the logic of thinking, the ability to speak, accurately formulate and express their thoughts. In the Russian language lessons, these same techniques also contribute to the formation of a culture of speech, the competent construction of sentences.
To work them out, the teacher can set exercises where you need to insert words that are appropriate in meaning, connect parts of sentences, arrange paragraphs in a semantic order, simulate a specified speech situation, etc. Such teaching methods are aimed at developing the communicative competence of students, full mastery of all the riches of the native language. The above example is one of many, as each teacher's pedagogical piggy bank is replete with a variety of innovative and traditional approaches to the educational process.
Modern technologies in education
The educational process does not stand still. It is a mobile, flexible system, the components of which change depending on the needs of society. In this regard, new teaching methods are regularly included in the traditional structure of the lesson, creating effective types of learning activities.
For example, integrated lessons are very interesting. You can associate literature with Russian or a foreign language, history, music, painting (drawing), geography. As a result, you will be able to conduct a lesson-journey, a lesson-research, etc. In classes of this kind, and this applies more to the junior and middle levels, gaming learning methods will be optimal. They are also good in lessons of a competitive type: KVN, “What? Where? When?”, linguistic tournaments and fights, literary interviews and reports. Such classes can be conducted in all links of the educational chain.
A mandatory element of the modern lesson is the use of technical equipment. Various kinds of computer presentations, diagrams, graphs, virtual travels, etc., made by a teacher with the involvement of schoolchildren, give the educational process greater information content and emotional richness, cognition, and interest. Lessons using new technologies awaken in the student the researcher who wants to know more and teach them to extract this knowledge on their own.
Thus, one of the main tasks of school education is realized: to educate not only a literate, but also an active, searching, creative person.
