What is a heuristic teaching method

To work with schoolchildren, it is not enough for a teacher to use only traditional methods. Education has stepped far forward, and comprehensively developed people are preferable for modern society. In this regard, developing techniques are becoming increasingly popular.

Conversation and Brainstorming

The heuristic method is a form of developmental learning. Recently, he has been actively used by school teachers in the classroom. Its essence is to set a task for students that has not one, but several solutions. Thus, the teacher does not know what conclusion he will come with the students. In this case, special attention is paid to the analysis of the solution to the problem.

The next step after posing the problem should be a comparison of the result obtained by the student with well-known postulates. With a heuristic approach to learning, the teacher must be prepared that the student can give out a fundamentally new vision and solution to the problem. This is typical for children with non-standard thinking.

Heuristic conversation is especially common. It is built on the type of "question and answer". Well, if the conversation turns into a dispute. No matter how trite it may sound, but in the dispute truth is still born.

In addition to heuristic conversation, the so-called “brainstorming” is gaining popularity recently, when students find themselves in a situation in which they have to quickly respond and solve the tasks of the teacher.