UDC

371

Authors

Atanasyan Sergey Livonovich
Moscow City Teacher Training University (Moscow, Russia)
Kuzub Natalya Nikolaevna
Postgraduate Student, Moscow City Teacher Training University; School no. 1174 (Moscow, Russia)

Abstract

Nowadays, when the scope of subjects taught at school is constantly increasing, transition
to specialized education can help optimize the process of learning and deal with arising problems.
Elective courses, in their turn, act as a tool to perform the new tasks set up on the school. This paper
dwells on the types of elective courses and some important issues of teaching them. Further, we cover
the tasks and functions of elective courses prior to and during specialized training. Due to the fact that
pupils are supposed to work much by themselves, special attention is paid to the forms of such work.
It should be noted that this requires special expertise and self-organization skills from the teacher.
We suggest using one of the new forms of pupils’ work – fliped learning – which is particularly efficient
at elective courses.

Keywords

elective course in mathematics, preliminary training, specialized training of senior pupils

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