Classification of teaching methods

For educators, the systemization of teaching methods is important because the classification and subsequent selection of adequate teaching methods from the system makes it easier for educators to successfully master teaching activities. Teaching methods can be broken down according to different authors and from many aspects: e.g. according to the nature of the source of knowledge, the degree of leadership and autonomy of students, the stages of the educational process, from the point of view of thought operations. In the Czech environment we are based primarily on the scheme created by the authors Maňák and Švec, who divide the methods into three basic groups. Each of them contains other subcategories.