Organization of practical work on the system-activity approach in the study of “Geography”

Abstract

The article deals with the organization of practical classes in geography lessons based on a system-activity approach. The principle of the system-activity approach ensures the achievement of the planned educational goals and learning outcomes, creates the basis for the independent successful assimilation by students of new knowledge, skills, competencies and various ways of activity. Practical work based on a system-activity approach is aimed at the development of each student, at the formation of their individual abilities, and also allows to significantly strengthen knowledge and increase the pace of studying the material without overloading students. At the same time, favorable conditions are created for their multi-level training, the implementation of the modeling principle. The various group and individual tasks proposed during the lesson on the basis of differentiated learning, taking into account individual educational trajectories and individual development of each student, ensure the growth of creative potential, cognitive motives, enrichment of forms of educational cooperation and expansion of the zone of immediate development. During the practical classes, to test the feasibility of the proposed methods of the system-activity approach, the pedagogical experiment took place in two classes – a control and an experimental group. A practical lesson based on formative learning using a system-activity approach gave better learning results than in the control group. To increase cognitive interest in the elements of the Geography subject, it is necessary to organize the educational process by introducing and applying elements of a systematic and active approach. The analysis of the results of the experiment showed the expediency and effectiveness of the proposed didactic tools in the geography lesson