Modern school today is undergoing various changes. A new state standard has been introduced, a new law on education has been adopted. Long gone are the days when all educational institutions worked according to a single program, and in every locality of our country one could see the same textbooks. Today, schools are given freedom of choice. A variety of educational complexes allows you to choose the most suitable for a particular institution, teacher and child. In this article, we will consider the features of the program "School of Russia". To date, it is one of the most common and most developed both from a scientific and practical point of view. The information will be useful to teachers and parents.
Combination of tradition and modernity
Among the many programs offered for implementation in primary schools, the School of Russia program, which has been operating in our country since 2001, stands out noticeably. GEF demanded some refinement of the educational and methodological complex, therebyupdating it to meet the latest regulatory requirements. Some teachers claim that, in fact, it resembles a traditional development that was formed back in the Soviet elementary school. This is partly true, but the recent changes make it quite modern. Keeping the best of what has come before, the authors have added innovative elements that have been tested in action.
All materials included in the "School of Russia" - the program, textbooks, workbooks, didactic manuals and guidelines - were prepared by the Prosveshchenie publishing house, which has traditionally accompanied the national education system for many years. A large number of materials accompanying the program allows the teacher to easily create a modern lesson and spend much less time preparing. The presence of didactic, reference materials and collections containing verification and control work allows not only the teacher, but also the parent to be aware of the level of preparation of the child in a particular subject and throughout the program as a whole.
The elementary school program "School of Russia" immediately became quite widespread. According to some reports, about half of all teachers working in grades 1-4 use it, and, according to reviews, all of them are happy with it.
Compliance with the state standard
The long-term existence of the program can be considered in two ways. Some may think that this indicates a lack of developmentand commitment to traditional learning. On the other hand, the program has stood the test of time, and this gives the teacher more confidence in the results than the new experimental set. These doubts and arguments are often cited by its supporters and critics, who leave their feedback during the discussion. The "School of Russia" program continues to exist confidently and once again proved its worth by passing an examination at the Russian Academy of Education and the Russian Academy of Sciences. Their conclusions based on the results of the study of the textbooks of this complex indicate full compliance with all the requirements of the federal state standard. This allows us to consider the project viable and quite modern.
The School of Russia program, which received such well-deserved positive reviews, may well contribute to the successful mastering of the first (primary) stage of education by schoolchildren.
The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation annually issues a list of benefits that are recommended or approved for use in educational institutions. One of the first places in this list is the program "School of Russia". The Federal State Educational Standard sets special requirements for modern textbooks, and these manuals fully comply with them. In addition, it can be noted that the electronic applications available in the complex teach children to work with different media and find information in different ways, which is a very important skill for a modern person.
Special for RF
Initialschool "School of Russia" was created by domestic developers and is intended for implementation within our state. By the presence of the name of the country in the name, the authors wanted to note its special national orientation. It is also noted that priority in this program is given to the spiritual and moral development of students.
The official website of the program notes the focus on civic, personality-developing, global, eco-adequate education for schoolchildren.
The "School of Russia" training program is the closest to the traditional, the use of time-tested tasks and methods of work leads to the fact that most of the children achieve the expected results without any problems.
Education is a priority
The team of authors of the program positions education as the most important function of elementary school, therefore, it sets the task for the teacher to develop the child's benevolence, empathy, tolerance, and readiness to help.
Principles are the most important conditions
Among the main principles on which education under the program "School of Russia" is based, the authors highlight:
- citizen education is realized through the content of all subjects aimed at spiritual and moral development;
- value orientations are formed with the help of educational material for each of the subjects;
- learning is carried out in activity through the formation in children of personal, regulatory, cognitive, communicative, universal educationalaction;
- synthesis of traditions and innovations is a reasonable combination of time-tested elements of traditional education, preserved in the domestic school, with innovative developments;
- eco-adequate nature of education develops nature-saving needs in children, fosters love and respect for nature, the desire to preserve and protect it, treat it as the greatest value;
- the global orientation of education provides for the formation in children of holistic concepts of the world, of which their native country is a part, as well as awareness of themselves as part of all mankind, a representative of planet Earth;
- work is result-oriented and implies such an active involvement of students in activities in which there is a movement towards the achievement of personal, meta-subject and subject results, showing the level of mastering the program of the initial stage of education.
There are many items, the base is one
The authors created an educational and methodological complex, using the advanced achievements of pedagogical science in combination with the concepts of the new time and based on practical developments. Therefore, this EMC is a system that identifies common methodological elements that are included in the work programs developed for each of the educational areas. "School of Russia" is a complete comprehensive set of all necessary materials.
Teachers working on the program note that textbooks help the child easily and without much difficulty to acquire andto accumulate the knowledge, skills and abilities required for successful schooling, to master the universal learning activities that are prescribed in the Federal State Standard as the basis of education in elementary school.
As evidenced by the feedback from teachers, another advantage of education under this program is the possibility of implementing a system-activity approach and taking into account the individual characteristics of students.
"School of Russia" allows you to create problem situations during the lesson, solving which, children put forward assumptions and check them, look for evidence, draw conclusions, compare what happened with what should have happened, evaluate the results of their own work.
The scientific supervisor of the team of authors was Andrey Anatolyevich Pleshakov, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, it was under his editorship that the working program "School of Russia" appeared. The Federal State Educational Standard has made updates to its content, while making it a popular and sought-after mechanism for implementing second-generation standards.
The teaching kit consists of a series of manuals covering all major educational areas.
For learning native language
The literacy program "School of Russia" is represented by the textbook "Russian alphabet", the authors of which are V. G. Goretsky, V. A. Kiryushkin, L. A. Vinogradskaya and others. This manual consists of two parts and is supplemented by four prescriptions. For the teacher, a methodological manual with lesson developments "Teaching literacy" has been created. The set is complemented by the electronic application "Russian alphabet", four "Miracle prescriptions" by V. A. Ilyukhina and the didactic manual "Reader" (Abramov A. V., Samoilova M. I.)
Working programs "School of Russia" in the Russian language are presented in two versions.
Teaching literacy and native language: option one
One group of textbooks is called "complete subject line". The authors of this work program in the Russian language in grades 1-4 are Kanakina V. P., Goretsky V. G., Boykina M. V. Among the manuals that implement this program is the “Alphabet”, which we have already named above, followed by the textbooks “Russian Language” for the first, second, third and fourth grades. For each of them, the authors created an electronic application.
The textbooks complement workbooks, collections of dictations, independent and creative works, manuals “I write correctly: a spelling dictionary”, “Working dictionary” for each class, “Working with difficult words in elementary school.”
The teacher will be assisted by methodological recommendations with lesson developments. They were compiled by V. P. Kanakina for the first, second, third and fourth grades. An interesting highlight in the work can be the "Book of educational achievements", thanks to which it is convenient to track progress towards the planned results, as well as to exercise current and final control.
In addition, the literacy program "School of Russia" is supplied with handouts and sets of demonstration tables. This makes the lessons interesting for children.
Trainingliteracy and native language: option two
This line is represented by work programs in the Russian language for the first-fourth grades, compiled by V. G. Goretsky, L. M. Zelenina and T. E. Khokhlova. The educational and methodical complex developed to the smallest detail contains textbooks "Russian language" for each class, workbooks, collections of test papers, didactic materials and recommendations for the teacher.
Like the first line we described above, this EMC uses the manual “I write correctly: a spelling dictionary” (Bondarenko A. A., Gurkova I. V.) and a “Working dictionary” for each class, developed by A. A.. Bondarenko.
The requirements for knowledge and skills that children should master in the process of learning in elementary school are contained in the work program (Grade 4). The "School of Russia" has also developed criteria and norms for evaluating students. They are quite detailed and understandable. This will allow the teacher to evaluate the students, and the children to understand the mark received.
Moreau's mathematics is arithmetic, geometry, and algebra
Let's turn to other educational areas that the School of Russia program contains.
FGOS "Mathematics" is represented in it by the author's development, on which the creative team consisting of M. I. Moro, M. A. Baytova, Yu. M. Kalyagin, S. I. Volkova, G. V. Beltyukova, S. V. Stepanova.
Children involved in this program meet with educational material, which includes tasks from arithmetic, algebra and geometry. They master the four arithmetic operations, learn to perform calculations orally and in writing, get acquainted withdifferent quantities and units of measurement, with a variety of geometric shapes and their features, learn to handle simple drawing and measuring tools.
The authors suggest that as a result of this course, children will be able to learn the basics of mathematical knowledge, develop their figurative and logical thinking, imagination, they will have an interest in mathematics and the desire to apply mathematical knowledge in real life. This work program allows you to organize the educational process so that the teacher easily takes into account the age and individual characteristics of students and applies a differentiated approach in work.
The educational and methodological complex that accompanies the teaching of mathematics includes not only manuals and electronic supplements to them, but also workbooks, collections of tests and tests, oral exercises, sets of didactic, counting and cutting materials, demonstration tables, manual "For those who love mathematics" with non-standard tasks for the development of imagination, observation, logical thinking.
Detailed guidelines for each class have been developed for the teacher. The amount of material is more than sufficient for conducting a modern mathematics lesson in elementary school, this is what the teachers working on the program note, leaving their feedback. The School of Russia program guarantees that the mathematical material covered will become a solid foundation for further assimilation of knowledge in this school subject. Long-term results of work under this program are alsoprove it. Schoolchildren, moving into the fifth grade, easily cope with new tasks, relying on the skills acquired in elementary school.
Know the world we live in
Let's consider the following area, which is contained in the "School of Russia" program. The world around is studied according to the textbooks and manuals of A. A. Pleshakov, who is the scientific supervisor of the entire project. Textbooks, electronic applications, workbooks, atlases, scientific diaries and other books and manuals on this subject are developed on the basis of the Federal State Educational Standard and are aimed at forming a holistic view of the world surrounding the child and understanding one's place in it. The implementation of this course sets itself the task of cultivating a respectful attitude towards the family, small homeland, nature, culture and history, familiarizing the child with universal human values, the basics of safe behavior in alleged dangerous and emergency situations.
The program "World around" includes knowledge from the field of natural science, social science, history and other sciences. All this makes it possible to teach a student to see the world as an integral system with its own interconnections.
You can't master UUD without effort
Another section, which includes the "School of Russia", is the "Technology" program, compiled in accordance with the requirements of the FGOS IEO. The peculiarity of this course is that among the applications there are recommendations that will help the teacher organize extracurricular work on the subject, as well as material that revealsthe use of project activities of students within the subject, and there are even exemplary project topics. The authors of manuals on technology were E. A. Lutseva and T. P. Zueva.
Modern schoolchildren need to master many elements of educational activity - to learn how to plan, evaluate, set tasks, look for solutions, achieve results. It is very important if the educational process is based on visual material that allows you to implement all this in activities. Such is the technological program "School of Russia". The explanatory note reveals the possibilities of the subject and notes that it forms a system of universal educational activities for the student.
In conclusion, let us once again note the positive aspects of the program we have considered. First, huge educational opportunities. They are indicated not only in the target settings, but also in the content of the educational material for each of the subjects. Secondly, a clear structuring of the content, which allows you to systematically include younger students in educational activities. Thirdly, the creation of conditions for the implementation of a system-activity approach and taking into account the individual characteristics of children. Fourth, the creation of problem-search situations. Fifthly, the presence of creative tasks, opportunities for the implementation of project activities. Sixth, the application of life experience of students in the development of new knowledge. Seventh, the use of various forms of education.
Teachers, parents and children themselves note the accessibility, understandability of the material, the strength of the knowledge gained and their trouble-free assimilation. For all this he getswell-deserved positive feedback program "School of Russia".
