Keyword: «fourth-graders»

. In modern society, it is necessary to develop organizational skills and abilities, starting from primary school age. This is possible under specially created psychological and pedagogical conditions: inclusion of fourth-graders in the cooperative creative activity of the teacher and students, creation of a personality-oriented educational environment, taking into account the age characteristics of students. The purpose of the article is to reveal the psychological and pedagogical conditions for the development of organizational skills in fourth-graders. The theoretical significance of the research is in description of the organizational skills development among fourth-graders in the creative workshop. The practical significance of the study lies in working out and implementation of a series of measures aimed at developing organizational skills in fourth-graders.

the article substantiates the relevance of developing fourth-graders' knowledge of their native land through problem situations. The three-component structure of knowledge (cognitive, value-based, emotional) is revealed. A typology of problem situations in relation to local history material (situations of contradiction, choice, hypothesis, discrepancy) is presented. It is proved that problem situations comprehensively affect all components of knowledge, contribute to the transition from formal memorization to understanding and the formation of a value-based attitude towards the small homeland.