In the article, the problem of the need for social learning for students of the skills of self-organization of the population, active civic behavior is considerd. Before bringing up these traditions and qualities it is necessary to form ideas about them, create opportunities for the formation of skills of conscious civil behavior.

Introduction to the school curriculum on the history of discussion issues highlighted a number of problems faced by teachers in their teaching. On the pages of pedagogical publications there are materials that offer different versions of the lessons, but the problem of organizing systematic training of teachers to teach controversial issues of historical science in the process of improving their skills in organizations of additional vocational education remains, as a rule, out of sight.

Origin, peculiarities and tasks of case study technologies are considered in details, case study contents, different types of work with this technology are described, a role of a teacher is shown in the work with case study technologies. Steps of work with case studies on the history lessons are indicated case sources: statistical materials; analysis of scientific articles, monographs, scientific reports on a particular problem; Internet resources; fiction and journalism.

The Article is devoted to the description of the experience of the organization of extracurricular activities in physics. It determines the significance of extracurricular activities for the formation of the motive for learning, cognitive interest and, as a consequence, the formation of cognitive actions of a generalized nature. It is said about the place of extracurricular activities in the implementation of the second generation standard.