PROJECT ACTIVITY AS A MEANS OF STUDENTS’ CREATIVITY DEVELOPMENT (for example, the project “All together for healthy lifestyle”)

Abstract

In our time a possible employer is interested not so much in the diploma of the applicant for a certain position, it is more important for him to see what the applicant knows and whether he will be able to work in a team. The need to develop creativity of students by projects for successful realization of themselves in the modern world is substantiated. The method, implemented in the educational process, promotes creativity, freedom of thoughts among students. The method of the project, developed and implemented by the Pedagogy Department of Lipetsk State Pedagogical University with students, working on one of the pressing issues of our time - the healthy lifestyle is described. In the first phase of the project was a survey about the healthy lifestyle. The obtained results demonstrated clearly poor knowledge about the basic factors of a healthy lifestyle among children of the city yards. In the second stage has been organized the social project “The yard for the healthy lifestyle”, implemented by 1st year students of physical education and sports faculty of FSBEI HE LSPU in the framework of the course “Pedagogy”. Project includes the following aims: promotion of healthy lifestyle, increase of motivation of children for adoption in the sports sections, drawing public attention to the importance of yard games for children and poor equipment of yards. The project resulted in a sports festival held in one of the yards of Lipetsk.