Abstract
Historically, the oldest group of methods are verbal and then written methods. It should be noted that in the early years of the formation of the theory and practice of teaching in the Soviet school, a large place, if not the most important thing, was assigned to active teaching methods - heuristic, research, especially excursions, laboratory, practical research. Teaching methods are the most important structural components of a holistic pedagogical process, which includes the goals and objectives of training, the content, the forms of organization of training and its results. As you know, the main characteristic of the learning process is its purpose, on which the choice of the content of education (training material) depends. The teaching methods should correspond to this content.