MODELING, DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION OF DIDACTIC TOOLS

Abstract

The priority of the modern Russian school is organization of a personality-oriented developmental educational process. The current contradiction between the new paradigm of education focused on the implementation of the activity approach and the knowledge-centered traditions of reproductive learning requires radical changes in the educational environment. Its essential element is the system of didactic tools available to the teacher. This raises the issue of developing a didactic toolkit that corresponds to the goals and objectives of the student’s personality development and mastering key competences. The analysis of scientific literature has shown that the solution of the problem of creating new pedagogical objects requires the implementation of interrelated processes of modeling, designing, forecasting, and planning as preliminary stages in the transition to construction – the stage of a real embodiment of the object. In the case of developing a system of teaching tools, these processes should be based on a certain concept of didactic complex, the ideas of which are determined by the ideology of the educational process in which the developed didactic toolkit will be involved. The article shows how, based on the concept of didactic complex of problem-based learning, the modeling of the system of teaching tools for the physics course of the basic school was carried out. The definitions of a number of terms of processes related to the development of the system of didactic tools are also proposed. The constructed complex “Physics – 7-9” confirmed its didactic efficiency during the pedagogical experiment and pilot innovative work. This allows concluding that the proposed mechanism for the development of didactic tools “the concept of didactic complex – modeling – designing with subsequent forecasting and planning – constructing the complex” is justified.