Optimization of the educational process urgently requires the teacher to have a creative approach to conducting lessons, rejecting hackneyed stereotypes and forms, innovation in the form and methods of presenting material.
Features of integrated lessons
The integrated lesson as such is no longer "terra incognito" either for young teachers or for professionals with experience and experience. However, it always requires special preparation, careful planning and great dedication from both teachers and students. In fact, two (or more) subjects are involved in one lesson, albeit related, but each with its own specifics. Therefore, for the assimilation of the material, an integrated lesson requires more mental and emotional efforts on the part of students than a traditional one. Yes, and for teachers, it can be considered as a kind of test for the ability to work in a team, to come to a commonresult in different ways and methods, to think outside the box. Naturally, a special form of conducting such classes should be chosen. After all, the integrated lesson does not fit into the traditional question-and-answer framework.
Types
The form and type of such a lesson is chosen depending on the age of the students, the average class size, the material being studied and possible points of contact with other subjects. Most often, you can combine literature and language, different languages (native and foreign), different literatures (native and foreign), literature and history, literature and geography, literature and music, drawing, etc. It is possible to combine not two, but three objects, if there is an option to select material that is close in terms of topics.
As for the form, integrated lessons in elementary school, for example, can take place as a travel lesson, a fairy tale lesson, a tour lesson, a workshop lesson, etc. Their types depend on the specific goals of each: learning new material, consolidating what has been learned, repetition and generalization, or a knowledge control lesson. How does it work in practice? Let's try to show.
So, an integrated lesson of English and labor in elementary grades, the topic is “My house, my apartment”. The objectives of the lesson are to introduce language material that names interior items, furniture, to teach how to make sentences and a small coherent text on the topic in English. Along the way, the teacher of labor conducts his part of the lesson - “Designing furniture(from paper) for dollhouses according to the finished scan. In such a lesson in a fun, interesting, playful way, children will easily learn the language material and learn how to design. Naturally, such a lesson will be held on a high emotional upsurge and will be remembered by the students for a long time.
In the senior school, integrated lessons are used more often, their range is wider. Among the most popular forms there are research lessons, conference lessons, debates, seminars, concert lessons, etc. The role of teachers in them is reduced to the role of a kind of orchestra conductor, while students lead their solo parts. In preparing for such classes, students are required to independently acquire, systematize, comprehend material, actively behave, playing a dominant role.
Summing up
It is clear that interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary integration is not an end in itself in the pedagogical process. The main landmark here is the child, the student. And lessons of this type stimulate and teach schoolchildren to acquire knowledge on their own, without waiting for the teacher to “chew” everything for them and put it in their “beak”, increase the level of intelligence of children, develop interest in the learning process.
