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Today, the third year students of the Pedagogical University Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Geography, Department of Geography introduced their authored textbooks on Geography within the scope of the subject “Geography teaching methods”.
The idea of making the homework a real text-book publication was born among the students as a result of research carried out within the framework of the subject, by adding supplementing the content of the geography text-books, their structure, the nature and structuring principles as well as by adding the kind of information that had not been published in the current text-books.
Each of the text-books for 6-9 grades authored by separate groups is exceptional, innovative, enriched with fresh and interesting ideas.
According to the future pedagogues, these books are one more step forward to make the learning process more interesting, as well as to form individuals through geographyfor future.
The book of future prepared by Lena Ananyan, for example, varies from today’s text-books with its appearance. In the book reminding the Globus, in addition to some extra information, there are also some interesting material, tests and contour maps.
The author, who set an objective in her book to have a developed and a useful individual for the society, also granted some part for material in Russian and English languages. She is sure that this method will by all means facilitate the process of using professional literature in foreign languages.
In their turn,Vardouhi and Nelly Haroutyunyans have their own vision of text-books of future; the workbooks for the7th grade students of the natural sciences-mathematics flow are for a one-time use only.
When fulfilling this idea, the future geographers studied the international experience and the accepted standards; maps, colourful illustrations, questions and tasks, additional material, vocabularies, contour maps.
In fact, the latter is the most important advantage of the textbook; it will remove extra costs for pupils and facilitate the task of the most forgetful ones.
One of the 14 textbooks authored by the future geographers was experimental; it differed from the others with the structure of the learning material and conceptual approach.
As a matter of fact, the students’ excitement was quite unexpected for the lecturer of the “Geography teaching methods”, Associate Professor Anahit Minasyan; looking at the carried out activities and the quality of the authored books, she decided to exchange the assessment with the presentation of the books.
The Dean of the Faculty Ms. Svetlana Hovakimyan is impressed, too; writing a book is not within everybody’s capacity; moreover, considering it a rather difficult task, she accepted that all presented books were attractive and unique.
In addition, Ms. Svetlana Hovakimyan urged the students to move to the world of books every day assuring that this would foster their professional progress and development.
Likewise, the Head of the Department of Geography and its Teaching Methods Mr. Ashot Ajamoghlyan noticed that writing a textbook is a heavy and complicated process that should satisfy the readers’ scientific and methodological requirements.
Moreover, the Head of the Department advised to continue the activities they started and to draw scientific parallels also by expressing courageous scientific ideasin future.
“The high-school education is not only the auditorium and the fulfilment of the educational programme; and this lesson held outside of the accepted standards confirmed the above-stated”, added the author of numerous textbooks, Professor Ashot Khoyetsyan replenishing the learning process with a real firework of new ideas and bright imagination.
What is more, at the end of the lesson, some of the present lecturers granted their academic manuals to the students and the students, in their turn, urged their younger course-mates to join their initiative and to cooperatively create copyright textbooks.
“We will be happy to support and to share the experience that we have already gained, to exchange with textbooks and to review one another’s works,” they promised.
