Elementary Schools Learn Philosophy Too: Added new activities that can be chosen by students in grades five through eight
By the way, the free activities prepared by the Institute for the Advancement of Education are divided into two groups. In the first, programs are intended for fifth and sixth graders, and in the second, for seventh and eighth graders.
Thus, fifth and sixth graders can choose the following activities: Health through exercise, Life skills and Media literacy. In the second group for seventh and eighth grade are: Entrepreneurship, My Environment and Art. However, the professional societies have also prepared Home Economics, Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, Guardians of Nature, Music Through Life and Let's Save Our Planet for Fridays and Sixths, and for students in the seventh and eighth grades - Philosophy with Children.
- The programs of free teaching activities are designed to favor the activity of students, they serve to connect their school and extra-school experience, learning through problem solving, cooperation, teamwork, as well as the use of modern technologies for educational purposes - they told "Novosti" in the Ministry of Education.
The procedure by which students choose one of the activities implies that the school offers a list, students and parents familiarize themselves with the offered programs before the selection.
These programs are implemented by combining different techniques of working with students, such as presentations, demonstrations, case studies, simulations, role-playing, small group debates, project work, watching and analyzing video attachments, creative workshops, connecting with peers from other school or state, visits by experts, visits to various events…