How and why children's competitions are organized

The ability to compete with other people appears in children in the senior preschool age, when the child turns five or six years old. It is in this period that the boys have the desire to measure their strengths, to overtake a peer during a sports day, and for girls - to demonstrate their knowledge in class, to receive the teacher's praise in the presence of other children or to win a drawing competition.

Use of contests in the education of children

Formation of competitiveness of a graduate of a school and a university is one of the important tasks in the process of obtaining an education. A graduate of a school must withstand competition on admission, and a graduate of a higher education institution - when applying for a job in the specialty. Therefore, throughout the entire period of education, children's competitions are an integral part of the educational process.

1) In the senior groups of the kindergarten, sports events and competitions are held no less than four times a year. Organized group competitions, tk. Children are still painfully experiencing personal setbacks.

2) Teachers and teachers widely use children's competitions and games to consolidate children's knowledge based on the results of the material they have passed. Therefore, the final lessons of knowledge consolidation or extra-curricular activities, entertainment, where children have the opportunity to demonstrate their success, can be organized.

3) Competitions for educational projects, olympiads for individual disciplines are held with the children of the secondary school, when their preferences in studies have already revealed, when children's competitions become for them a means of self-affirmation in the school collective.

4) For senior students, business games can be organized with competitions for the best report on the topic of the abstract in the framework of a scientific conference or competition "for the post of school director" as a result of drawing up their electoral program. Thus, children can participate in the management of the school, in the organization of the learning process.

Children's competitions in organizing and conducting holidays

On the basis of state and national holidays an educational program of educational institutions is being built. Celebrations are evenly distributed throughout the school year. Many school materials (poems, songs, folklore, studying the traditions and customs of the peoples of the country) reflect the essence of the holiday, its significance for the people. The holiday becomes a means of summing up the results of a large section of educational material. Additionally, with the help of the holiday, the children relieve tension that has accumulated during the quarter, trimester or half-year.

At carrying out of holidays children's competitions have entertaining character, remove tension. It is recommended that the same contest be held several times, so that as many children as possible participate in it. As a result of winning in such competitions, the child receives a small gift. The more participants can get a prize, the more joy they will experience from the event.

New Year's children's competitions are conducted not by the teacher, but by a cheerful fairy-tale character that allows children to appear in a fairy tale, to receive gifts. The most magical moment of such competitive competitions is when a child receives just such a gift or prize, which he long dreamed of.

Participation in competitions trains children's will, brings up self-confidence. The child learns to set a goal and find the means to achieve it. When organizing competitions, an adult should take into account the child's most developed abilities, which he can successfully demonstrate. If such situations of success are repeated repeatedly, the child grows up to be an active and competitive person.