Designing extracurricular environmental courses at a pedagogical university
As educational institutions of basic and secondary education have started using federal state educational standards, a large number of extracurricular courses have been set up at educational institutions. Their aim is to organize the second half of students day, and they are termed as extracurricular courses. Subject teachers have to develop programs of extracurricular activities, which are part of the national-regional component of school curricula. The main task of such courses and classes is to develop students personal qualities, to attract their interest to various activities and disclose individual abilities. That is why a new course Designing elective courses in Chemistry (Geography) has been introduced to master students majoring in education at Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education. The paper presents the experience of teaching this course and gives some results obtained by master students in the form of developed programs and educational and methodical complexes of courses of extracurricular activities with environmental content.