Additional education is an educational process aimed at satisfying a person’s needs in improving basic intellectual, professional and special skills. The technique is based on the development of existing skills and the acquisition of new knowledge.
What is the peculiarity of out-of-school children’s educational institutions?
The school educational program is focused primarily on the assimilation of fundamental knowledge by the child. Despite this, many of the practical skills necessary to successfully build a career in life remain outside the school curriculum. Therefore, most parents try to make their children attend various specialized circles and sections additionally.
Education at school can also provide such goals through the introduction of special courses and lectures. Among the institutions in which supplementary education programs are implemented, the following are distinguished: general education (palaces for children and youth creativity, young naturalist stations), professional (art schools), sports, technical, scientific, social organizations, as well as special (correctional) educational institutions. But here these programs are already basic and fundamental. This is how a school of
continuing education for children differs from a regular educational institution.
The main tasks of sections and circles
The program of additional education at school performs the functions of the so-called social elevator: thanks to it, a person develops, acquires new skills. It opens up alternative opportunities for the implementation of creative initiatives of students. In addition, it performs a number of important functions:
- provides students with opportunities for further improvement of personality;
- allows students to communicate and exchange experience in a specific specific field of activity;
- simplifies the use by schoolchildren of the possibilities of the surrounding socio-cultural environment
- strengthens the motivation of the child’s personality to mental and creative activity;
- reveals gifted children requiring more intensive development;
- creates favorable conditions for early vocational guidance of students.
In addition, among the tasks of institutions of further education is the social adaptation of children with disabilities.
Relevance of choice
It is very important for parents to analyze the entire list of additional classes. And to choose exactly those that will not only please the baby, but will also develop his creative abilities and talents. After all, it is very important that they become a kind of rest from school, and not additional study. Education at school often tires the student, so you should weigh the pros and cons and think: does the child really need an elective. If you decide to definitely send your child to an additional education school, but do not yet know which direction to choose, you should pay attention to the most popular options.
School of Arts
It should be noted first. Indeed, traditionally, the school of art is the institution that allows primary education in the field of culture. Additional education of such a plan allows many students to take the first steps towards rapid creative growth up to a certain profession. Here, students are given the opportunity to learn how to play the selected instrument, learn solfeggio (theory course), the history of music, the basics of analyzing musical works. Moreover, all children are required to learn to play the piano, sing in the choir and perform as part of the ensemble.
The music school allows you to attend optional classes in the creative direction of composition and arrangement. After leaving school, the child usually knows how to correctly perform musical works, has a
sense of rhythm. It is worth noting that classes in the art school require students, if not brilliant talent, then special endurance and self-control. After all, the results often appear only after a few years of persistent systematic studies in a particular creative field. Despite this, an art-aesthetic institution, an art school, gives rise to multifaceted opportunities for creative enrichment of a child’s personality.
Sport sections
They are no less important. Playing sports actively contribute to the overall physical development of the student, strengthen and temper his health. During training, muscle strength, dexterity and coordination of movements are developed. In addition to the noted aspect, young athletes are characterized by greater endurance, perseverance, increased self-confidence. They develop skills to endure pain, overcome uncertainty, fear, learn to work in a team.
Visiting sports sections is especially useful for boys; it helps them to throw out excess energy accumulated during sitting in school lessons in the most suitable form for this.
Learning foreign languages
Such electives are more often opened at schools. After all, training in them does not require any specific material and technical base, but all people have the ability to learn languages without exception. One has only to show a little endurance and perseverance. After all, each of us managed to master our native language. Why not try to become a polyglot? There is only one obstacle: learning several foreign languages goes beyond the standard school curriculum.
Many parents initiate language classes additionally. Education at school often does not allow the child to develop many talents. But attending additional classes or working with a tutor stimulates the student to be active, to achieve success. In addition, the study of foreign languages, as well as classes in mathematics, perfectly trains memory.
Electives for elementary school students
During the implementation of additional programs, teaching methods such as creating problem situations to enhance the students' mental activity are very often used. They also model conditions that activate imagination, attention, memory, self-development and self-determination. Therefore, additional education in primary school is especially relevant .
For younger students, classes are often held in the form of games. Due to such classes, students at an early age are guided by success, learn to solve non-standard problems. For them, additional education programs themselves look like a fascinating way to spend their own leisure time with like-minded people. Employment of schoolchildren outside school hours helps to strengthen self-organization, resistance to the influence of negative environmental factors, and forms the concept of a healthy lifestyle.
Student time planning
Children's schools of additional education can solve the problem of the appropriate leisure of students, reducing the likelihood of the influence of "bad companies". Often in institutions of this type, groups are not divided by age, but by degree of mastery of the subject, stimulating communication between all sorts of age categories with varying degrees of life experience. This gives positive results: children develop social skills in communicating with like-minded people of all age groups, and the process of rapid growing up is stimulated.
Do I need a continuing education program at school?
Mugs and various sections at the school allow you to increase the learning space by including the student in a social life filled with interesting tasks and problems that require an individual approach to solving. Self-expression and self-affirmation of schoolchildren is activated, and the comprehensive development of their personalities is taking place.
The institutions of further education and the school, by interacting, ensure the comprehensive intellectual, spiritual and professional development of the child. In addition, the baby begins to understand how you can engage in self-improvement of personality. Due to the integration of basic and additional education, students participate in various types of activities, ensuring the interconnection of cognitive and creative spheres.
Additional educational programs for children should be introduced in kindergarten, thus instilling in the child the habit of constantly enriching their knowledge and skills.
Lack of motivation as the main problem of the educational process
Often such difficulties are faced by teachers of secondary schools. In institutions of an additional type, students usually make informed choices. They themselves decide in which direction their training will be directed. Unless this choice was imposed on him by unnecessarily caring parents. Therefore, mothers and fathers should ask: why do people who seem to have no “adult problems” carefree schoolchildren often have overloads?
It is worth observing the middle ground - the child must always have time for the game and walks. After all, if personal space is not enough, the student will use additional activities to relax. The consequences of information overload can be very deplorable: from apathy to violent protest.
Prospects
Life in modern society involves a high level of stress. According to many scientists, it is creative activity that is an effective means of removing a person from a stressful state. Children are even more susceptible to external influences, so psychologists often recommend that they engage in creativity additionally. Education at school, focusing on basic subjects, at this stage does not allow students to get a sufficient level of creative growth, which is closely related to personal growth. Therefore, the conclusion suggests itself: additional and basic components should constitute a single educational space.
In addition, in recent years, many graduates are faced with the fact that regular schooling is not enough to enter some educational institutions. Therefore, the educational program of continuing education at school often involves final certification, as a result of which a student is issued a document indicating the acquisition of new knowledge and skills. This allows you to expand your capabilities when choosing a future profession.