Search

STUDYING THE PREPAREDNESS OF THE IRKUTSK OBLAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIFUNCTIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS // Pedagogical Review. 2019. Issue 6 (28). P. 51-62

Multifunctionality of the modern elementary education connected to development of both thematic and metathematic, as well as the personal results, creates the problem of the educational assignments’ quality. Now the most effective assignments are those that help students to develop universal learning activities of all types, meaning that the elementary schools students learn both thematic and metathematic content. The goal of this article is to ascertain elementary school teachers capability to understand the essence of educational assignments and their preparedness to develop multifunctional assignments. The material for this research consists of elementary school teacher survey results. The method is provided by survey and theoretical analysis of scientific literature. The analysis of the data revealed that the teachers focus on the administrative function of the teacher, providing the assignment as an order that requires completion; are unable to name all the essential parts of the learning assignments and to define its functionality, thus narrowing the scope of assignment applicability in their own work. Most of the respondents rework the textbook assignments, yet the target potential remains the same, maintaining the focus on the subject results. During independent creation of the learning assignments most of the teachers have difficulties with ascertaining the target resource, providing accurate language material, organizing the completion, reflexion and evaluation, making quality formula of the assignment itself. The survey of the elementary school teachers allowed to reveal the most typical problems connected to the teacher preparedness to develop and use multifunctional educational assignments, which allows to ascertain areas of education concerning the creation of the educational assignments that help the elementary school students to form metathematical results.

Keywords: educational assignments, elementary school students, universal learning activities, elementary school teachers

CONDITIONS ON FORMING UNIVERSAL SYMBOLIC LEARNING ACTIVITIES IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS DURING CONSTRUCTION AND PERFORMANCE OF MULTI-PURPOSE CLASS ASSIGNMENTS // Pedagogical Review. 2022. Issue 6 (46). P. 39-48

The problem under review is formation of metadisciplinary results in elementary school students, most notably universal learning activity of modeling, which is considered by the renewed Federal Educational Standard for the elementary general education to be the basis for all metadisciplinary results. The symbolic skills of elementary school students are given an assessment. The reference is provided for the elements of the educational subjects for elementary school (concepts, actions, processes, teaching objectives, complete assignments), as well as for their practical application by the elementary school teacher. The formation of symbolic universal learning activities in the elementary school students, as well as the action of modeling, is to be performed during the completion of the multipurpose educational assignments, which have the increased didactic and methodical potential with metadisciplinary and subject-specific components. Performance of such learning activities by elementary school students results in discipline-related results, but also will form the universal learning activities of various types. Because the symbolic activities serve as a framework for all the universal learning activities, the assignments that pertain to the modeling activity are thus far the most impactful in the didactic sense, as their performance by the elementary school students trains the ability to plan further activities, perform them according to that plan, as well as the ability to perform all the types of logical universal learning activities. Inclusion of additional activities (testing, appraisal, communicative) will also promote formation of a broad spectrum of multidisciplinary results. The specification is provided for the organizational, technical and subject-related conditions that boost efficiency of the formation of the universal learning activities in the elementary school students.

Keywords: elementary school student, symbolic modeling, metadisciplinary results, class assignment, universal learning activities