ANALYSIS OF ACTIVE METHODS OF TEACHING NATURAL SCIENCES

Abstract

This article provides a complete overview of the fact that active teaching methods are methods that encourage students to actively think and practice in the process of learning educational material. It is noted that active learning mainly involves the use of a system of methods aimed not at presenting ready-made knowledge to the teacher, memorizing and reproducing it, but at the independent assimilation of knowledge and skills by studentsin the process of active thinking and practical activity.

The features of active teaching methods are that they are used to stimulate practical and mental activity, without which thereis no progressin the assimilation of knowledge. The emergence and development of active methods is dueto the fact that new tasks arise before learning: to ensure the formation and development of not only educational, but also cognitive interests and abilities, creative thinking, and independent mental work skills of students.

The emergence of new tasks is associated with the intensive development of information. If previously the knowledge acquired at school, colleges, and universities couldserve a person for a longtime, and sometimes for his entire working life, thenin the era of the modern information boom they need to be constantly updated, which can be achieved mainly through self-education, and this requires cognitive activity and independence from a person.

Cognitive activityis an intellectual and emotional reaction to theprocess of cognition, the student's desiretolearn, the fulfillment of individual and general tasks, interest in theactivities of the teacher and other students, all thiswill be covered in this article.