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Conclusion
The additional education and extra-curricular activities provide a wide scope for
the development of educational training. They are organized taking into account the
interests of pupils. Pupils broaden and deepen their knowledge acquired in the
classroom in a bright and interesting form and realize its wide use in practice and in
life. Pupils get a great desire to learn new things and to understand as much as
possible. It requires teacher’s great creative initiatives and training.
Sometimes to conduct extracurricular activities becomes more difficult for a
teacher than to conduct a usual lesson. Extracurricular activities also require pupils’
participation in the preparation of: design of a classroom, presentation of
experiments, publication of wallpapers, preparation of reports and abstracts. Only
mutual and interested cooperation of two sides: the teacher and
the pupils will lead to
a common result, that is, to the organization of a really interesting, useful, exciting
and cognitive event.
The teacher finds the most effective forms of extracurricular activities on the
subject due to specific conditions of pedagogical work, pupils’ interests and his own
ideas.
Such work is useful not only for pupils but for a teacher as well. It helps him to
get
to know his pupils better, develops his organizational abilities, makes him to be
aware of the latest achievements in science and technology and to work creatively on
himself.
Extracurricular activities open up broad opportunities for developing both
pedagogical creative initiatives of a teacher and diverse cognitive activities of pupils
educating them. During extracurricular activities pupils develop their creative
abilities, initiative, observation and independence, acquire labour skills, develop
intellectual and mental abilities, develop insistency and industry, deepen their
knowledge of plants and animals, develop an interest towards the environment, learn
to apply studied material in practice. Natural and scientific worldview of pupils is
also developed. Also, extracurricular activities contribute to
the development of
initiative and collectivism.
All kinds of extracurricular activities include a common principle of educational
teaching implemented in the system and development. All kinds of extracurricular
activities are connected and complement one another. There are direct
communication and feedback during extracurricular work. Kinds of extracurricular
activities allow to lead pupils from the individual work to a teamwork which acquires
a social direction and is of great importance for the education.
Extracurricular activities held in the whole system of teaching process develop
all-around interests
of pupils, independence in their work, practical skills, their world
view and thinking. The forms of such activities are very diverse but according to the
content and methods of implementation they are connected with a lesson; during the
lesson pupils get some interest which later finds its satisfaction in some forms of
extracurricular activities and then gets the development and consolidation of the
lesson.
Pupils’ interests are often very particularistic limited just by collecting and
amateur attitude towards definite animals. The task of a teacher is to increase pupils’