Instructions

1. Read picture books in early grades so budding readers can draw information from the images to enhance their understanding of the text. In early reading development, readers can benefit from the presence of pictures. By looking at the pictures while they read, students can infer meanings of unknown words. Additionally, pictures often make the text more engaging for younger pupils.

2. Engage students in read-alouds. Students benefit from practicing oral reading as well as from hearing others engage in oral reading. When you read aloud with your students, do not use round-robin reading, or reading in which the reading responsibilities pass up and down rows. This method of reading has proved to be highly ineffective, according to the Scholastic website. Instead, rotate reading responsibilities randomly or select students in an unpredictable order.

3. Study the art of rhyme through the exploration of poems. By presenting engaging poems, you can allow students to enjoy the lyrical nature of language. Read poems aloud with your students and make classroom displays featuring poetic selections or engaging tongue twisters.

4. Study the basics of spelling. Spelling instruction is vital in elementary school. During these formative years, students learn the basic rules of spelling. Use leveled spelling lists with your students, providing continually more difficult words as they advance.

5. Explore parts of speech. By learning the functions of the different parts of speech, students can begin to understand how sentences are formed. Start with simple identification and move toward sentence diagramming activities in which students explore not just the parts of speech but also how words work together to form sentences and paragraphs.

6. Offer opportunities for creative writing. Elementary school students are naturally creative. Use this creativity to your advantage by engaging students in creative writing activities. Allow students to write stories regularly, encouraging them to hone their writing skills in an imaginative and enjoyable way.

Topics for midterm and final controls

1. Professional foreign language as an educational discipline

2. Special terminology

3. Scientific style and its features

4. Psychology and human development

5. Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis

6. Behaviorism

7. Jean Piaget and cognitive development

8. Constructivism

9. Lev Vygotsky and scaffolding

10. Six thinking hats

11. Critical and creative thinking

12. Multiple intelligence

13. Cooperative learning

14. The education system of Kazakhstan.

15. General problems of elementary education.

16. Terminological apparatus of Pedagogy, Psychology, Ethnopedagogy.

17. Didactics – a science about teaching

18. Pedagogue in the system of elementary education.

19. Elementary school teacher’s model.

20. Psychology and human development.

21. Human development theories.

22. Characteristics of young learners’ development.

23. Motivation and its types.

24. Principles and forms of educational process in elementary school.

25. Auxiliary forms of studying.

26. Lesson as an element of complete system.

27. Integrated lessons.

28. Non-traditional forms of educational process.

29. Methods and means of modern pedagogy.

30. Methodology. Specific methods of teaching.

31. Traditional and modern technologies of teaching in elementary school.

32. Developing, humanistic, individual and collective, problem teaching.

33. Author’s technologies.

34. Modern methods and technologies of elementary education in foreign pedagogy.

35. Brain-storming, mind-mapping, critical thinking, multiple intelligence, cooperative learning.

36. Theory and technology of teaching reading and writing skills, English language.

37. Written speech and literary reading.

38. Theory and technology of teaching mathematics and computer science

39. Theory and technology of teaching knowledge of the world (World Cognition), Self-knowledge

40. Theory and technology of teaching fine arts, music, technology

41. Theory and technology of teaching physical education

42. Scientific and pedagogical researches of elementary education

43. Moral education of children in the family

44. Formation and development of pedagogical science in Kazakhstan

45. Personality-oriented formation and development of pedagogical science in Kazakhstan

46. Accounting the age and specific features of children in the course of their education

47. Children’s collective and its educational possibilities

48. Lesson in the condition of developing education

49. Complete development of individuality in the course of its teaching

50. Problems of character formation in school days

51. The role of games in education of individuality

52. Information technologies in elementary education.

53. Technical means of teaching

54. Substantial and methodological lines of basic concepts and ways of training school subjects

55. Independent work and extracurricular activities of young learners

56. Famous home and foreign pedagogues of all times

57. Scientific and pedagogical diagnostics.

58. Evaluation criteria. Mark in elementary education

59. Modern foreign researches in the field of pedagogy and methodology

60. Didactic (teaching) aids in elementary school