Keyword: «additional education program»

The article is devoted to the issues of studying a foreign language by students of primary school age in the system of additional education. This paper gives a brief description of the program "Spoken English for Junior Students", discusses its goals and objectives. The author describes the conditions for implementing the program and the main difficulties.

Preschool education is assigned a task not only to form ideas in children and develop their skills and abilities, but also to ensure the ability and readiness to live in modern society, achieve socially significant goals, interact effectively and solve life problems. The purpose of the study was to identify the organizational and pedagogical conditions for the development of communicative abilities of children aged 6–7 years in the process of using a Lego set. The leading research methods were: analysis, synthesis, comparison and generalization of psychological and pedagogical research works and methodological literature on the research problem, pedagogical experiment, method of mathematical statistics – G-criterion of signs. As a result of the study, the structure of communicative abilities was revealed, which includes three key components – cognitive, behavioral and emotional, in accordance with which the criteria and indicators for the development of communicative abilities of older preschoolers are determined, and the levels of their development (initial, normative and advanced) are characterized taking into account the peculiarities of communicative abilities development among children of senior preschool age. The development of communication skills can be considered as an accompanying task of any additional education program, including technical one. Thus, two areas are combined in the course of the implementation of the additional general educational (general developmental) program "Lego-city" within the framework of the study: teaching the basics of constructing using a Lego set and developing communication skills. The theoretical significance lies in the definition and characterization of the component structure of the communicative abilities of older preschool children. The practical significance lies in the selection and experimental testing of diagnostic tools, presented in two series (for children and educators), to identify the level of communicative abilities development among older preschool children; working out and testing the program for the development of communicative abilities of older preschool age children in the process of "Lego-city" construction with the use of a Lego set. The study may be relevant for the teachers of preschool and additional education, as well as for students of pedagogical areas of training.