<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Renata Holubová</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF TEACHING BY MODERN TEACHING METHODS</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Problems of Education in the 21st Century</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">activity</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">inductive methods</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">teaching methods</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">November/2010</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://journals.indexcopernicus.com/abstract.php?icid=924382</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">25</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The most important goal of education is improving the quality of teaching. There are several modern teaching methods that can be used in teaching and learning. These methods are focused on students´ active work. In our project we studied some of these methods, for example problem – based learning, didactic games, methods “how to express the idea with a pencil“(mind maps, tasks), discussion (brainstorming, Philips 66, Hobo), brainstormig, heuristic method. The effectiveness, motivation and problems of these methods were tested during high school physics lessons in Olomouc and Skuteč. The methods were used in various classes by in-service teachers and by pre-graduated teachers. Outcomes of this reasearch are discussed in this paper.</style></abstract><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Original article</style></work-type><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">58-66</style></section></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Renata Holubová</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">RESEARCH OF NEW FORMS OF COMPETITIONS IN FOSTERING THE CREATIVITY OF YOUTH</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Problems of Education in the 21st Century </style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Fermi questions</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">young inventor</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2008</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">May/2008</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://oaji.net/articles/2014/457-1392233509.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">6</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">People working in basic science are rightly concerned about a potential decline in the number of physics students. At the Faculty of Science, Palacky University in Olomouc, Czech Republic, we have prepared a project entitled „Research of new forms of competitions in fostering the creativity of the youth aimed at motivating them to study science, especially physics, mathematics and chemistry“. Some of the research activities will be discussed in this paper, namely the competitions Fermi Questions and The Young Inventor. The basic question of our research is the efficiency of this activities for the motivation of students to study physics and techniques. It will be shown that only a small number of students were interested in these competitions. The Fermi Questions competition was organized as an international one in cooperation with secondary and high school teachers in Germany in 2008. The results are the same as in the Czech Republic. The competition The Young Inventor was successful – the presented papers and the convention had shown a good quality of students´ knowledge, some of them cooperate with industrial enterprises and intend to study physics. </style></abstract><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Original article</style></work-type><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">96-102</style></section></record></records></xml>