SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF INTERCONNECTION OF GEOGRAPHY LESSONS AND EXTRACURRICULAR WORK IN THE PRACTICE OF TEACHING AND UPBRINGING OF SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISORDERS

Abstract

The article reveals the issue of interconnection of geography lessons and extracurricular educational work in special institutions of general secondary education from the point of view of the integrity and unity of interdependent influences on the cognitive activity and independence of school students with intellectual development disorders, a comprehensive approach to the formation of a worldview and a system of geographical knowledge, and the unification of teachers’ efforts to achieve the results in teaching and upbringing of schoolchildren. The role of extracurricular educational work in increasing the effectiveness of the assimilation of the system of geographical knowledge by school students with intellectual disorders, and in correcting the shortcomings of the mental development of this category of children, is determined.The peculiarities of the relationship between geography lessons and extracurricular correctional-educational work in the educational process of special schools have been analyzed. The variety of forms and ways of the relationship between classroom and extracurricular activities, the nature of the interaction of geography teachers with educators of school groups have been determined. Among the forms and ways of joint activity of teachers and educators, the discussion on the results of educational work, ensuring coordination of actions in the educational process through timely information and taking notes concerning the relationship between the teacher and class educators, combining joint efforts during the preparation and conduct of general school educational events prevail. It has been found that insufficient attention is paid to maintaining continuity in the calendar plans for educational work, designing the most effective methods of pedagogical interaction, conducting extracurricular activities in the main sections of educational work, taking into account the content of the geography curriculum.The pedagogical conditions for strengthening the educational, upbringing and corrective impact of the relationship between geography lessons and extracurricular work in the educational process of special secondary education institutions for children with intellectual disabilities have been determined. In order to increase the level of geographical knowledge of high school students with intellectual disabilities about the nature of Ukraine, the topics of corrective and educational activities related to geography lessons have been proposed; the organizational forms of their implementation and means of expanding ideas about the surrounding natural world have been specified; various types of productive tasks and exercises have been considered that are appropriate for solving educational and corrective tasks in the process of classroom and extracurricular work of a geographical orientation.