Formarea noțiunilor științifice la elevii cu deficiență mintală

Abstract

The article briefly presents a didactic research that analyzes the formation and introduction of scientific notions specific to Chemistry through active-participatory methods for obtaining higher school results, triggering students' interest, active involvement in their own training, thus ensuring the optimization of the teaching and learning chemistry to students with mental disabilities in special school. The fundamental objective of the research was to demonstrate the importance of active-participatory methods in the formation of notions in the Sciences curricular area in general, respectively in the discipline of Chemistry in particular, where the student becomes an active participant in his own training. Through active-participatory methods used in the process of learning, recovery and socialization of the mentally handicapped, it becomes possible to achieve the fundamental objectives of acquiring knowledge, to accelerate students’ work pace, bring the class working together and train as many students as possible during the lessons. During the activities based on interactive methods organized in groups, it was found that the students modeled their behavior, the spirit of organization increased being more orderly and more involved in solving the work tasks received; interpersonal relationships and cooperation between students have improved (better students help their colleagues to understand the notions taught, this fact leading to an increase in their own results).