Universal Journal of Physics and Application Vol. 5(3), pp. 561 - 570
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IS THERE THE BEST METHOD OF LEARNING PHYSICS?

AUTHOR(S) INFORMATION: Skurski P.

ABSTRACT

The question about the method of teaching and learning physics is one of the most important questions which should worry each teacher. Nowadays teachers and students are offered a great variety of methods. Teachers are advised to organize their lessons (and the whole teaching process) in an interactive way and use active (stimulating, motivating) methods of teaching. These methods are supposed to ”force” students to become more active leading them to the precisely defined teaching targets (goals). The author of this article holds the opinion that using only one specific method is enough for students to learn physics successfully. It is the method of learning based on the method of scientific physics - the only most effective method of understanding our Nature. The main tasks of any physics teacher are to help students realize the purposes and the essence of this method as well as create favourable conditions so that students can use this method consciously and more and more independently.