Heuristic learning method

Our time is rich in a variety of available information, the number of information sources and areas of its application is so great that it is no longer sufficient to have a static basic set of knowledge and skills, it is necessary to be able to learn independently generating new ideas.

Forms of developmental learning - problematic and heuristic - are precisely designed to develop in students the ability to think creatively and unconventionally, to see in the traditional situation new problems and find out from them the way out, to want and be able to learn new knowledge independently.

Problem training involves creating a problem situation under the direct supervision of the teacher, from which the students independently find a way out, assimilating new information and using the information obtained earlier. In this case, the teacher directs the students, helping them to achieve a predetermined result.

The essence of the heuristic method of teaching

In the case of a heuristic method of teaching, the teacher does not know in advance which decision the task will be taken by the students. In this method, students are faced with tasks that do not have an unambiguous solution and they must independently propose possible solutions to the problem, confirm them or disprove them, and eventually achieve an unexpected result often.

The acquisition of new knowledge and skills by the student takes place through the use of such a method of instruction as a heuristic conversation. That is, students do not receive a ready-made set of knowledge, which they need to memorize, but reach it independently in the course of a conversation with the teacher, by setting and finding answers to problem questions, solving cognitive tasks.

The main feature of the technology of heuristic education is that the personal creative activity of the student and the study of educational basic standards change places. First, the student independently achieves his result in solving the task, and then compares it with the well-known analogues.