Preparing for a lesson, educational or extracurricular activity for a teacher is one of the important stages in the process of training and education. Indeed, the result depends on what the lesson will be, what programs and forms will be used, what didactic material will be used in the process of preparing and conducting the lesson, that is, will the teacher be able to achieve all three learning objectives - to present new, useful, educational information, to develop and bring up the personality of the child.
The methodological development of an open lesson is a sample, a lesson manual, which practically and theoretically reveals the applied programs, methods and teaching aids, modern technologies in accordance with the topic and age-related psychological and physiological characteristics of students. Thematic developments can be worked out for lessons, extracurricular and educational activities, new programs and methods of training, program modules, etc. They can be both individual and collective.
Each lesson is a thorough preparation of the teacher. Of particular importance in professional development and career growth is the holding of the so-called open lesson. A lesson in which the teacher shows his skills to colleagues, teachers of the city or region and methodologists in the subject.
The methodological development of an open lesson, educational or extracurricular activities should begin long before the appointed day and requires a lot of strength, knowledge and skills of the teacher. The teacher must carefully choose the topic of the lesson, decide on the purpose of the methodological preparation, study a lot of psychological and pedagogical information, as well as methodological literature on the topic, build a lesson plan and select the necessary and most effective teaching methods and techniques, various pedagogical technologies.
There are specially designed requirements that apply to the methodological development of open lessons, educational or extracurricular activities:
- Correspondence of the methodological development to the theme and objectives of the lesson.
- Preparation must have novelty, be relevant.
- Effective teaching methods should be used in the methodological development; methodical methods ideally contribute to the achievement of the goal of an open event. Visualization of the material is also desirable.
- The use of technical training tools - video, audio, Internet.
- The material of the open event should be clearly and simply stated.
The methodological development of an open lesson should not remain only a development. It must be held. Teachers must discuss and discuss the lesson. If in the process of an open lesson the students showed knowledge of the material, consolidated the new material and received an emotional charge, then this lesson reached its goal and was correctly methodically developed.
The methodological development of an extracurricular event has the same construction plan, namely the relevance of the topic, the purpose of the event. But the teacher must remember precisely the educational goals of the lesson. Therefore, the use of gaming technology, communication between students, competitions and quizzes will help create an atmosphere of interaction and friendship, to achieve the intended goals.
The methodological development of an educational event can be a separate preparation for the next lesson on various cognitive topics. But often educational tasks include building open lessons or extra-curricular thematic events.
The methodological development of an open lesson, extracurricular or educational activities is an example of a teacher’s qualification, an assessment of his methodological work, knowledge and skills.