STUDENTS‘ INDEPENDENT WORK IN A GEOGRAPHY LESSON: SOME USEFUL ASPECTS

The majority of performed scientific researches show that one of the most important aspects in a secondary school is how to make the teaching process more varied, not so boring and tiresome for students. Students appreciate not only dynamism of a lesson but also teacher‘s human features: subject competence, tolerance, understanding, sociability, etc. Geography in a secondary school is the most intergrated subject including the spheres of nature and people's life. There is no absolutely useful or useless teaching method or style that could be effectively used or rejected in teaching geography in a secondary school. Any method and style is good if it helps to achieve teaching aim. Teaching methods and styles have to be co-ordinated in a geography lesson. One of such methods that could be used effectively in a geography lesson is students' independent work. What are advantages and disadvantages of this method? How can it help students to get and con-solidate knowledge? All these items are discussed in this article.