SURPRISE PEDAGOGY: A NEW EDUCATIONAL PARADIGM OF THE XXI CENTURY

Surprise Pedagogy is a new concept that we introduce to describe a number of principles that should provide foundation for the new type of education. We put forward an idea that true learning starts with surprise as the basic emotion to trigger motivation for acquiring new knowledge and skills. The sources of surprise at the lesson are facts, methods and feeling capable of doing things that students have never done before. The article describes methods and tools that can be applied at the lesson of the English language in the context of Surprise Pedagogy. These tools include a grammar cup and a Grammar Cube (patent № 140112 by Peter A. Stepichev). We believe that a motivated teacher is the person who is at the heart of Surprise Pedagogy and it’s up to practitioners to fi ll it with methods and tools in the fi eld of their teaching