Abstract:  
The subject of this research is the implementation of such form of organizing the educational process as blended learning. The author examines the peculiarities and analyzes the structure of educational course of programming training in form of blended learning, as well as turns attention to the self-directed learning. The article provides the curriculum of educational course “Python Programming Language”, implemented in form of blended learning and oriented towards the students of 7-11 grades. The author shares personal experience of teaching programming to the schoolers in the three most popular forms of organization of the educational process: classroom training, distance learning, and blended learning, as well as pursues correlation between them. The main conclusion of the conducted scientific research lies in the statement that the blended learning is the most efficient form of education for achieving the set educational goals. It is confirmed by the comparative results in carrying out the experiment in the three aforementioned forms of organization of the educational process. In the author’s opinion, the implementation of blended learning encourages the better digestion of studied material, as well as develops such meta-subject competences, as communication skills, self-tuition, self-organization, and information competency.
 

Abstract: The subject of the research is various forms of teaching process structuring. The author of the article analyzes three most famous forms of teaching process structuring, class-and-lesson system, distance learning and project-based learning, from the point of view of creating conditions for developing sustainable metadisciplinary competences of the 7th - 11th grade school students in computer programming. In cases when school uses distance learning, it is possible to recommend to use blended learning to eliminate drawbacks of forms of teaching process structuring being analyzed. The main research method used by the author is the study and analysis of psychological, pedagogical, theoretical and special literature as well as periodicals devoted to using class-and-lesson system of teaching, distance learning and blended learning. The main conclusion of the research is that blended learning can be successfully used in the process of teaching computer programming to the 7th - 11th grade school students. The blended learning approach allows to fully consider individual traits of a school student, and to fulfill the activity approach avoiding the 'distorted feedback' problem of distance learning and keeping up the interest of students in computer programming.