Abstract
Various economic, social and political changes taking place in society in the 21st century have led to a change in the paradigm of education. Currently, in addition to traditional education, the use of innovative pedagogical technology is taken into account. It is necessary to form communicative, linguistic, ethno-cultural and cognitive competences among students in secondary school. That is why it is important to teach ethnographic vocabulary, to offer effective methods of its analysis and interpretation. This article discusses innovative methods of teaching ethnography to students of grades 8-9. The main goal of the article is to form the ethnocultural competence ofstudents, to select effective innovative methods of teaching ethnography. In thecontent of the article, theoretical information about innovative teaching, expert resultsfrom students, practical works made on the basis of this analysis, a set of effective andoptimal methods of learning ethnography were considered. Innovative teaching inmodern education is a broad concept. That’s why considering it at the micro level, thatis, in the “teacher-student” relationship, will be the subject of our proposed article.