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DEVELOPMENT OF SOFT SKILLS AND SUPPORT OF CRITICAL THINKING BY PROJECT TEACHING
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One of the most important challenges today is to support student’s critical thinking and soft skills development. Many researches point to a deficit of these skills among graduates. The article is focused on the presentation of the research of the impact of the selected teaching method, namely project teaching (project-based learning), on the student access, development of their soft skills and ability of critical thinking. The article compares the results of final testing. In the first part, the focus is on a brief presentation of the method, followed by a general definition of the tools of this form of teaching and also a presentation of a specific tool in the form of a selected computer program. Then there are commented results of a survey in the form of comparison of two groups of students taught by different teaching methods. Six factors are compared. The first factor is activity in the classroom, then attendance, interaction with teacher, interaction in the team, as well as teamwork and the development of soft skills and critical thinking. In conclusion, there is a proposal for possible use of the teaching method. The aim of the paper is to present the potential of the teaching method and its contribution to the future professional life of students based on the research of the effect of introducing the innovation of the subject in the form of project teaching (project-based learning).
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