Based on creativity

Abstract

Viktor Shatalov is a prominent Ukrainian humanist teacher and innovator. He developed a learning system based on supporting signals, which facilitate learning for children. Supporting signals were based on the child's psychology, his imaginative thinking. Shatalov used catchphrases, interesting phrases and information from various adventure, popular science, historical and detective books and films as the basis of supporting signals. In this way, even a slow thinking children easily learned the educational material. Shatalov criticized those teachers who punished such pupils with bad grades. Because, that children are not guilty that they were born with phlegmatic or melancholic temperament. So the Shatalov simply gave such children more time to comprehend the educational material. Thanks to this approach, there were no underachieving children in Shatalov's class. If there was not enough time in the lesson, children had the opportunity to ask for help from the teacher in unscheduled «lessons of open problems». Shatalov introduced in his class «lessons of open thoughts» where children had to fully express their own thoughts, feelings and imagination. At such lessons, children discussed topics that were closest to them. Based on their own interest and enthusiasm, children prepared messages and creative presentations. In this way, children learned not out of compulsion, but out of their own desire. Shatalov was not limited to the narrow framework of the curriculum, but tried in every way to fill the lesson with the lively creative thought of the children. Unfortunately, due to fierce criticism from authoritarian education officials, the experiment, which began in 1956 and lasted until the early 90s, had to be stopped. Today, we have simply forgotten our prominent teacher. And this despite the fact that Viktor Shatalov's name is well known all over the world. It has already become a certain tradition to forget about their own prominent figures. There fore, this article aims to bring back from oblivion the name of the famous teacher, and with him all those who were undeservedly forgotten.