Productive learning as a means for shaping school students’ universal competences
The present article provides a brief overview of school students’ universal competencies in the framework of productive learning, describes the methods of productive learning as a mechanism for the universal competencies shaping in Geography classes and in extracurricular activities. The author reveals the essence of the competency-based approach, which puts forward not the student’s awareness, but his ability to act; describes competency-based tasks for the development of communicative skills.