Keyword: «didactic means»

The article is devoted to the issue of thinking, in particular, to pedagogical thinking as a teacher’s professional ability not only to comprehend, analyze, summarize, evaluate educational practice, but also to create pedagogical theories and concepts, as well as to make methodological discoveries, actively, creatively and effectively carry out education and teaching. The author talks about the use of a variety of didactic tools, the main of which are pedagogical tasks, or pedagogical situations. The article reveals the method of specific situations, which are a fragment of problem-based learning. The article touches upon the questions concerning the criteria that determine the choice of educational pedagogical tasks. Discussing the issue of the effectiveness of various methods, the author argues that they can contribute to the formation of active learning activities of students, the formation of a certain type of thinking, as well as stimulate their intellectual potential and motivation to study subjects.