Preparation of high school students for Olympiads on history

the implementation of the national Concept of education development requires a modern school to train a whole, competitive person who can adjust successfully to the constantly changing world and create a competitive Russian education. One of the tools to reach the goal is to work with gifted children, to build motivation for educational, research and intellectual activities. Participation in the Olympiads is one of the forms of development of educational and cognitive motivation and a way of forming a personality focused on high results of intellectual activity. The preparation of students for the Olympiads is a part of extracurricular work with gifted students that is mandatory nowadays. The system of preparing students to participate in Olympiads is included in the system of methodological work of the school, however, there are no special approaches or specialized structures for preparing for Olympiads for today. Each school decides itself on working with gifted students, based on the methodological resource it has. However, the peculiarities of the Olympiad as a type of intellectual competition have quite specific characteristics that determine the features and along with it the difficulties of preparing for this type of competition. The preparation of students to participate in Olympiads has several difficulties related to specific feature of this type of competition – the unpredictability of the content of tasks. The tasks themselves have typed shapes, but the content, determined by combination of whole historical knowledge, does not allow predicting the approximate content of Olympiad tasks. Even the tasks within the same Olympiad of the qualifying and final stages can be fundamentally different from each other. It is necessary to pay attention to the development of personal qualities of students during their preparation for the Olympiads: diligence, courage, creativity in decision-making, respect for the history of the country and the people who made their mark in history. Summarizing analysis of psychological and pedagogical research on the problem shows that, while preparing students for the Olympiads, teachers arrange work of students intuitively, integrate up-to-date digital resources and platforms that offer students to be prepared for a particular listed Olympiad. Due to these features methodological work on preparing students for Olympiads at secondary schools requires improvement and development of new effective tools. This article presents recommendations related to the arrangement of independent work of students. The article focuses on the arrangement of students to complete different types of logical tasks; to work with historical maps, historical written sources and to prepare for an essay based on specific examples.

preparation of students, gifted children, Olympiad as a component of extracurricular activities, methodological recommendations, civil and patriotic education