Activities for patriotic education at school
Extracurricular educational activities are the main form of patriotic education in secondary schools. The purpose of extracurricular activities is to give students the opportunity to comprehend the significance of certain historical events in the life of our country and its people.
School activities can take the following forms:
- Holiday (concert);
- Thematic lesson;
- Excursions to memorable places or monuments;
- Competitions (within class and between classes);
- Thematic exhibitions;
- Organization of a school museum and museum lessons;
- Open lessons;
- Thematic classroom hours;
- Screening of patriotic and documentary films.
Approximate topics for patriotic education events in secondary schools
| Event form | Sample Topics |
| Thematic lessons | 1. Memory Lessons “It’s not for nothing that all of Russia remembers...” (grades 1-11) |
| 2. Dispute “Children of Siege Leningrad” based on the book “Three Girls” by E. Vereiskaya (grades 6-7) | |
| 3. Lesson of courage “Leningrad victory” (grades 7-8) | |
| 4. Lessons on Courage “Bells of Our Memory” dedicated to the Battle of Moscow (grades 1-11) | |
| 5. Lesson of courage: “And the girls went to war...” “War does not have a woman’s face...” with an invitation to war and labor veterans | |
| Competitions | 1. Drawing competition “Weapons and armor of 1812” (grades 1-4) |
| 2. Crossword competition “Heroes of the War of 1812” (grades 5-8) | |
| 3. Competition of creative works “The history of my family in the Great Patriotic War.” Handwritten memory book (high school) | |
| 4. Retro photography competition “Look into the family album” - the story of one photograph. “Dedicated to Pioneer Day” | |
| 5. Crossword competition “Heroes of the War of 1812” (grades 5-8) | |
| 6. Participation in the competition “Defenders of the Fatherland” among military-patriotic associations of schools | |
| Cool watches for grades 1-4 | 1. “Children of the wartime” |
| 2. “The first victory in the Great Patriotic War” | |
| 3. “About exploits, about valor, about glory” | |
| Cool hours for grades 5-8 | 1. “Remember your name!” |
| 2. “Russian character” | |
| 3. “There is a word - to endure!” | |
| 4. “Our region during the war” | |
| 5. “Remember that guys once went to fight” | |
| Class hours 9-11 grades | 1. “They fought for their homeland!” |
| 2. “Heroic exploits of our fellow countrymen” | |
| 3. “He didn’t return from the battle then” | |
| 4. “Commanders of the Great Patriotic War” | |
| Exhibitions, lessons in the school museum | 1. Organization of a thematic exhibition in the library dedicated to the 200th anniversary of Russia’s victory in the Patriotic War of 1812. |
| 2. Museum lessons “Bells of our memory” | |
| 3. Participation in a review-competition of halls, museums, and exhibitions of military glory. | |
| Excursions, participation in city events | 1. Excursions to the local history museum, to historical and art museums in Moscow, Zaraisk, Kolomna, to monuments and memorials, obelisks |
| 2. Campaigns “Mercy”, “A Veteran Lives Nearby”, “St. George’s Ribbon”, “We are Citizens of Russia”, “Light in the Window” - patronage of veterans | |
| 3. Memory work shift for the improvement of military history monuments “Feat in stone and bronze” | |
| Open events | 1. Open parallel event “Immortal is the one who saved the Fatherland!”, dedicated to the victory in the Patriotic War of 1812 |
| 2. An open parallel event “I am a citizen of Russia!”, dedicated to Constitution Day. | |
| 3. Open parallel event “There is such a profession - to defend the Motherland!” for Defender of the Fatherland Day. | |
| Musical events | 1. Competition of the staged song “Let’s sing, friends!” |
| 2. Literary and musical composition “Let us bow to those great years!”, dedicated to Victory Day. |
Civic-patriotic education
Round table on civic-patriotic education “The future belongs to patriots”
Let's try to highlight the problems in civic-patriotic education: (make sheets, write in the middle where you should enter the problems)
For example: - the ambiguous work of the media, which often provide young people with unreliable information. It is from various falsifications in the future that the children build a distorted idea of their country.
What problems would you highlight?
Work on civic-patriotic education at school is carried out systematically and, naturally, becomes the most ambitious on the eve of the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Second World War. the need to update technologies and forms of patriotic education in changing social conditions is noted.
One of the problems of education is the civic-patriotic direction, which is currently considered not only at a theoretical level, but also as a real social and pedagogical phenomenon. The project “National Doctrine of Education” emphasizes that the education system is designed to ensure the education of Russian patriots, citizens of a democratic, social state who respect individual rights and freedoms, have high morality and show national religious tolerance. Based on this, work on patriotic education includes a number of tasks: 1. Increasing the civic consciousness of schoolchildren. 2. Fostering love for the Motherland, respect for its historical heritage.
Now I would like you to share your experience in developing a civic-patriotic direction with students:
(EXPERIENCE OF COLLEAGUES)
Savelyeva Irina Vyacheslavovna
1. One of the central places in this direction is the cooperation of the school with the Council of War and Labor Veterans of the region. (Over the years of cooperation, warm, friendly relations have been established between veterans, the staff of teachers and students of the school. The children annually prepare gifts for the Day of the Elderly, February 23, for Victory Day. It has become a good tradition for us to congratulate war and labor veterans at home, providing them with social household assistance. Members of children's self-government, teachers, school students and their parents carry out the campaigns “Clean Windows”, “Glory to Veterans” (congratulating veterans at home), “We will help in any way we can”. Seasoned in war, in the trenches, knowing the value Victory, veterans never complain about their lives. The attention of young people is dear to them! School students try not to deny them this. This shows the citizenship of schoolchildren
Live communication with older people has a deep impact on the souls of young people and evokes feelings of compassion and empathy. As a result of active interaction with the Council of Veterans of the microdistrict, meetings, concerts, various competitions and quizzes are held at a high level and have enormous educational potential. Students learn the traditions of their people, they develop a love for the Fatherland, their native land and their home, they show respect for elders, realize the role of work in the life of Russians, get acquainted with documents and living evidence of the history of the Fatherland and preserve the historical and spiritual memory of their people, traditions of the defenders of our Motherland.
Patriotic education of children in elementary school
? Patriotic education does not begin at school. Born in a family, it develops in kindergarten. Primary school teachers are just taking up the baton, continuing to instill in their students a love for the Motherland and the Fatherland.
Already in the elementary grades, children are able to understand what it means to love their people, to feel part of it, to be proud of its history, and to feel responsible for the future of their country. The task of a primary school teacher is to properly organize patriotic educational activities, plan events, taking into account not only the cultural and historical traditions of their country, but also the region (republic) where the students live. Patriotic education is organically woven into the educational program (lessons of literature, history, Russian language, labor, fine arts, music), but the most important tool is extracurricular activities. The purpose of such events is to immerse children in the history and culture of their people, developing in them such qualities as love for the Motherland, mercy, tolerance . Primary school students are still quite receptive to the assimilation of national cultural values, and this should be taken into account fully.
Learning to play chess for children
If we talk about effective forms of patriotic education of junior schoolchildren, then these include such non-standard forms as:
- lessons on heroic and patriotic themes;
- integrated lessons;
- problematic lessons;
- discussions;
- theatrical lessons;
- group seminars.
The principle of integration in modern education occupies a leading position. It involves combining several subjects with a common idea or theme. So the theme “Family and life in ancient Rus'” runs as a single thread through such subjects as the Russian language, literature, history, music, and fine arts.
Effective means also include didactic methods and techniques. In elementary school, these techniques are applicable in fine arts lessons (depiction of eras, symbols, imitation of arts and crafts styles).
