On the Question of Formation of Cognitive Activity of Senior Schools Through Project Activity

Abstract

The article analyzes the process of organizing project activities among senior schoolchildren in general education institutions as a means of forming cognitive activity and implementing a system-activity approach within the framework of the Federal State Educational Standard. The structural components of the cognitive activity of senior schoolchildren (behavioral, motivational, emotional-volitional, cognitive) are indicated and the principles of the system-activity approach are outlined (the principle of obtaining new knowledge, the principle of changing the role of a teacher, the principle of forming motives for activity). The mutual influence of the stages of project activity implementation (initiating, fundamental, pragmatic/final) and the content of the components of cognitive activity is reflected. In the course of the research, theoretical (literature analysis) and practical methods were used (analysis of official websites of educational institutions, questionnaires of school teachers, the method of observation and conversations with students of senior classes of secondary schools). The problems of forming the cognitive activity of senior schoolchildren through project activities are revealed (the absence of project activity as a mandatory component of the educational process and, as a result, the impossibility of constantly improving the existing skills of teachers; the low level of innovative and pedagogical mobility of teachers within the framework of project activities; the growth of cognitive passivity of senior schoolchildren) and the ways of their solution are proposed (creation of a single regulation for the organization of project activities in educational institutions; providing an inter-level exchange of experience between representatives of pedagogical professions; monitoring the professional skills of a teacher; a separate unit for organizing project activities in an educational institution; implementing project activities taking into account the sphere of interests of senior schoolchildren with the involvement of specialists from the real sector of the economy; using forms and methods that increase the cognitive activity of students in regular and extracurricular activities).