ACTIVE TEACHING METHODS AS A MEANS OF FORMING THE MOTIVATION OF STUDENTS’ LEARNING ACTIVITY

The relevant issue of modern professional education – forming the motivation of students’ learning activity as a pledge of successful and qualitative training of future specialists –is considered in the article. The authors emphasize that the use of active teaching methods will necessarily help to solve this problem. Nowadays, the attention of scholars is aimed at finding new areas of studying the sphere of education, the allocation of the value basis of its modernization, the definition of the conditions of the effectiveness of innovation processes in education, ensuring its continuity (V. Andrushchenko, L. Vashchenko, I. Dychkivska, O. Dubaseniuk, I. Ziaziun, A. Khutorskoy and others). The article reveals the diversity of active teaching methods, their classification is developed, the methods of programmed, problematic and interactive teaching are singled out, the authors differentiate imitative and non-imitative active teaching methods. Non-imitative active teaching methods include problem lectures, problem and active practical or laboratory classes, seminars, independent courses and diploma projects, practice internship in the workplace, active group counselling, olympiads, student scientific conferences, sociological testing and questionnaires etc. All of them differ in focus on problem, intensification of students’ logical and cognitive activity, but at the same time there is no imitation of real circumstances in the situation. Imitative active teaching methods are divided into non-gaming and gaming. Non-gaming imitative active methods of training include the method of cases; simulation exercises for finding a solution known to the teacher; training. The essence of these methods is to simulate real objects and situations without the presence of a free game, variables, and perform role functions. Some aspects of implementing active teaching methods are disclosed to increase the motivation of the learning activity of students at pedagogical universities. The authors come to the conclusion that the use of the system of active teaching methods changes the traditionality of the lesson, requires the observance of the main elements of the methodology, which include preparing students for active learning materials, setting questions and creative tasks, and conducting various forms of consolidation