Marina Okisheva

One of the conditions for successful learning at school is the development of certain skills, qualities, mental processes in students, for example, such an aspect of attention as concentration. It is necessary to teach children to concentrate at the beginning of training, when organizing various forms of training, as well as doing special work. The purpose of this study is to verify the selected working conditions for the development of first-graders' concentration focus in the process of organizing an astronomy club. The club allows us to expand and deepen the knowledge of children, to create more favorable conditions for the development of certain personal qualities and processes, for example, such an aspect of attention as concentration. The article describes the process of organizing work to develop the concentration of first-graders’ attention during astronomy club classes, as well as an experimental study concerning this problem, confirmed by testing in an educational institution.