SEVERAL APPROACHES FOR EFFICIENT CLASSES IN MACEDONIAN LANGUAGE
- 1. SEVERAL APPROACHES FOR EFFICIENT CLASSES IN MACEDONIAN LANGUAGE Violeta Petkovska OOU,,KOCO RACIN” vpetkovska@gmail.com In a modern society, depending on the degree of cultural development of awareness, os cultural and educational heritage, of material and economic strength of the underlying philosophical, sociological and internal political orientation, resulting the social character of the teaching. With the development of the already mentioned criteria it is inevitably to have a change and development of the quality of the teaching. The teaching should be intensified, humanized, actualized, modernized. The modern method for teaching Macedonian language knows procedures applied in motivating students. Through the system of the problematic-creative teaching are expresed more modern trends in teaching methodology. Here, on the first place are placed the creative opportunities of the students. They are preparing themselves for independant resolution of issues related to the selected text(story). The story should be experienced firstly, through the interpretation and then should be analyzed. The analyze of the story should provide contact to the student to all possible aspects of its content breakdown: thematic,conceptual and aestetic and ethical. At the same time, the formal aspects:composition and linguistic-stylistic should not be realeased. Thus, the level of essential teaching analysis will be reached. At the beginning of the school year the students’ interests are checked. For that purpose a survey is conducted, and from its results ,based on the interest shown, the teacher offers the students stories for independant reading at home. Motivating students are achieved by interpretive reading a selected part (fragment). For this procedure usually are selected the most excited parts, to encourage students to think. Illustrations, listening to music, listening radio programme or watching TV shows may serve as an incentive. Such stimulus can be caused by the literature competition. The school has organized a quiz dedicated to a particular topic. Students apply for the quiz based on the propositions of the game. The competition envisages the stories that should be read and the manner of the conducting the quiz. Selected students can take
- 2. part in organizing the quiz. Announcing a contest for the best display of a particular story, also can be used as an incentive for the reading. Motivating the students to read a story can also be achieved by asking questions and tasks to which students can respond. Questions and tasks can be targeted by checking how the students feel about the story and how they understand it. The modern purposes of teaching can be realized by a successful interpretation and analysis of the story. This builds active and sensitive student who experienced literary messages and understands their sense. Checking the understanding of the text by using instructional papers ICT technology for independant work of student allows measurement of the productivity of the lessons. For example, if 80% of the students answered all or most of the questions,it means that the lesson is well organized and rationally derived. If fewer students answered the most questions,it means that the lesson wasn’t enough optimum. -This way of checking can be used as a measured value od certain teaching forms and means and to perform the required comparison of classes with different organization; -Also, it allows continuous monitoring of students’ progress and brings better grades, which increases the objectivity in assessing; -The teacher can give full information to the parents about the activity of the student; -The wide use and acceptance of the project “With reading and writing to critical thinking”, presented by the American Association in cooperation with the University of Northern Iowa techniques for reading and writing, graphic display in different parts of the lesson. Practitioners are satisfied with the application and effect easily affordable and interesting lead to cooperative teamwork, giving solid results that will be long remembered. The modern teaching requires creative approaches in all stages of preparation,organization, implementation, evaluation and application to practical application of knowledge, skills, habits of contemporary everyday life. There is an obvious need for discovering new approaches for validating hypothesis, with guidance for use interactively with others, self-request, response revealing research methods for better quality teaching.
- 3. References: “Methodology of teaching Macedonian language for the elementary schools”/ Prosvetno delo,1967,Skopje MA Lenska Gogoska “Didactic”/Zvezda,1995,Skopje Made by: Violeta Petkovska Elementary school teacher School:Koco Racin-Ohrid