DEVELOPMENT OF JUNIOR SCHOOLCHILDREN’S ATTENTION AND MEMORY AT LESSONS

The article presents the results of the formative experiment in primary school, carried out directly in the training activity. The purpose of the experiment was to ensure a more effective development of the memory and thinking of junior schoolchildren during the development of educational material in basic subjects and, as a result, increasing their academic performance. The experiment was conducted with students of the second grades (control and experimental) of one of the schools in Rybinsk, studying according to the system «Elementary School of the XXI Century.» To develop attention and memory, a wide range of special exercises were used, included in the lesson plans on the relevant topics of the curriculum in Mathematics, the Russian Language, Literary Reading and the World Around Us (the article gives examples of exercises, the corresponding topics of the lesson, the content of the educational and methodological kit and the dates of classes). Before to start the experiment, students in both classes showed a low level of attention and memory development, so a class with lower performance indicators in most educational subjects was chosen as an experimental one. As a result of the experiment, the indicators of students’ memory development and attention in the experimental class improved significantly, while there were no changes in the control class, and the indicators of attention concentration even decreased. Performance in all subjects, both current and final, in the experimental class also became higher. Thus, the study showed that the effectiveness of the development of attention and memory of modern junior schoolchildren can be increased due to the special organization of educational activities, namely, the inclusion in the educational process of special exercises that do not take additional time in the lesson, but increase the motivation and performance of junior schoolchildren.