Skills and habits are formed only in practical activities carried out by methods of exercises and training. Outside of purposeful activity, neither skills, nor, moreover, their constituent skills, can be formed.
Skills, with all their components, are most successfully formed under the following basic conditions:
- clearly defined goals of learning activities in terms of the result of actions and the purpose of the exercises (i.e., what indicators of actions should be achieved in the process of exercises);
- understanding the rules and sequence of actions aimed at achieving the goal of the activity;
- a clear idea of the technique for performing actions and their final result, that is, the presence of an image that should be achieved;
- constant self-control of the quality of actions by comparing their results with the image formed in the representation or visually perceived;
- timely detection of deviations, errors and marriage in educational work and making adjustments to their actions during the next repetitions of these actions;
- correct self-assessment of success in achieving a specific goal of educational activity and the goal of exercises and the presence of a clearly conscious desire to improve the mastered actions.