Formation of primary school students’ communicative skills based on teambuilding: potential and awareness assessment

Abstract

In the article the importance of communication in the infancy of mankind was emphasized for conducting joint economic activity, survival in harsh and dangerous conditions, and in the modern world — for achieving professional goals. The authors note that the society has formed a social order to the education system to develop a competitive personality possessing the basic skills and competencies of the XXI century, one of which is the ability to communicate — to socialize and to cooperate. Based on the analysis of scientific and pedagogical literature and normative documents, it was concluded that it was necessary for the implementation of social orders to pay due attention to the formation of students’ communicative skills. In pedagogical theory and practice, researchers apply a variety of methods, ways and means aimed at developing communicative skills — gaming technology, the project method, staging and theatricalization of fiction literature, situational exercises and tasks. The authors of the article consider the formation of primary school students’ communicative skills based on teambuilding — activities that contribute to improving cooperation within the student team, creating a cohesive team and increasing the student motivation. The steps of forming teams during the implementation of teambuilding in the educational primary school process were described. Within the framework of this study, a survey among primary school teachers was conducted and results about the teambuilding awareness, its opportunities in forming student communicative skills were presented.