Developing solving problems integrated in the school subject in the 2nd grade Morals, results

Abstract

For the development of the different components of the social competence there are quite few reliable national improvement programmes available for teachers. For the promotion of a positive change in the social problem solving only foreign practices, ex-periments and programmes are known. The basic condition of working out the pro-grammes is the profound knowledge of the characteristics of the desired future to devel-op components. In order to have a shorter programme available for us, in the school year of 2014-2015 we conducted an experiment for five months, including 118 pupils- with pre- and post-measurement, and with a control group. Our aim was to develop both problem solv-ing and cooperation integrated in the school subject among pupils of the 2nd grade. Through „What's the problem?" and location and person specific problem solving re-vealed by measuring devices, problem definition, ways of solving the problem and the development of different forms of cooperation in order to solve the problem were im-proved using Science subject