A year later, new federal state educational standards will come into force – federal educational standards for primary and secondary schools (from 1st to 4th and from 5th to 9th grades).
Let’s say right away: for schools, parents and students themselves, these are the most important documents that will determine the content of school education in Russia for many years.
They were expected for a long time: in fact, the orders of the Ministry of Education should have been issued a year ago and would have entered into force this September, but a pandemic broke out and the work stopped.
How are the new standards fundamentally different from those that are in force now? Why was it necessary to change them? What didn’t suit you? Let’s put everything on the shelves.
Practical course
In those standards that are in force now, only general, very vague formulations are spelled out. In the new version, everything is very detailed: what minimum of knowledge and skills a student should master. The emphasis is on how the child can apply knowledge in practice. For each academic subject, there are clear requirements for educational results.
– I would call these standards the standards of compromise, – the rector of the Moscow City Pedagogical University Igor Remorenko explained to RG. – Changes began to be made back in 2015 – we tried to describe the results of education more specifically. So far, only general results have been written in the standards. For example, in mathematics, the student was required to “master the basics of mathematical knowledge.” And no specifics. More detailed and specific formulations appeared in the new document, for example, you need to know the Pythagorean theorem and apply it in solving mathematical problems.
Time to speak
Rossiyskaya Gazeta has already reported that parents are unhappy with the way a second foreign language is taught in schools. And he, by the way, according to the standards currently in force in grades 5-9 is an obligatory part of the program. This is usually two lessons per week. According to a survey on the RG website, 65.4% of parents are dissatisfied with the quality of learning a second foreign language in Russian schools. It looks like the parent’s “groan” is heard. The new educational standards for basic schools say: “The study of a second foreign language from the list offered by the organization is carried out at the request of students, parents … and if the organization has the necessary conditions” – this rule will become a rule from September 1, 2022. But what should those guys who go to 5th grade do this fall? Whether you like it or not, choose a second foreign language?
Primary school students will learn what the family budget is
– Admission to study in the first and fifth grades in the educational programs of primary and secondary schools, developed on the basis of updated standards, will be carried out by schools from September 1, 2022. But changing the programs for which training is already being conducted is possible only with the consent of the students’ parents, – the Ministry of Education explained to RG.
So parents can say to the headmaster: “Remove the second foreign language from the schedule.” And the director will have to do it. Interestingly, in some disciplines, for example, mathematics, physics, chemistry, new standards introduce levels of study: basic and advanced. But, for example, the history was not divided into levels.
The financier from the cradle
From elementary grades, students will now begin to study financial literacy. Parents were immediately worried: is there really another subject at school?
As explained in the Ministry of Education, there is no talk of introducing a new subject and this will not lead to an increase in the load on the children.
“New educational standards enable schoolchildren to receive the most relevant and demanded skills and knowledge, including knowledge of financial literacy,” the department noted. – Now this is fixed at the level of the Federal State Educational Standard, both in primary and secondary schools, among the compulsory skills that schoolchildren receive as a result of mastering the program.
In the “beginning”, these skills will be studied by the children within the framework of the subjects “The World Around” and “Mathematics”. They will learn what a family budget is, how work and economic well-being are connected.
In basic school, from the fifth grade, children will begin to learn about finance more deeply: they will be told how to protect savings from fraudsters, how to rationally use funds. And all this will also be organically included in several subjects: “Social Studies”, “Informatics”, “Geography” and others.
– School programs should provide the most relevant knowledge that students can apply in real life, – emphasized in the Ministry of Education. – Therefore, the new standards make it possible to update the content of programs in terms of humanitarian areas, and in terms of subjects of the scientific and technical cycle, expand the knowledge of schoolchildren about a healthy lifestyle, ecology, and use interactive programs that form patriotic education.
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Igor Remorenko, rector of Moscow State Pedagogical University:
– In the new documents there is no division by years of study. Only the requirements for learning outcomes for primary school and for grades 5-9 in the context of all subjects studied. But there is one “but”. The new federal state educational standards are filled with the requirements of the so-called knowledge property: a lot needs to be simply learned by heart. For the sake of fairness, I will note: there were even more such moments before. So, the child had to learn almost forty poems a year. Now this is quite a “lifting” figure – 3-4 poems. At the same time, if we, for example, open the requirements for chemistry, then we will read: at the basic level, the student needs to know, among other things, the theory of electrolytic dissociation. Agree, few of us after school will remember what it is and how to apply it.
There are many similar requirements. A little less in mathematics – there the emphasis is on solving problems, more – in history: for example, you need to know the main dates, key events and stages in the history of Russia and the world from antiquity to 1914.
Alexander Adamsky, Rector of the Eureka Institute for Educational Policy Issues:
– The approved documents are still not completely new standards, but what can be called FGOS 2.0, that is, an addition to the existing standards. I think that this will not have a serious impact on education, although the declarations there are quite modern. In general, in my opinion, the very principle of FSES as a regulator of exclusively educational material is outdated. The standards need to be fundamentally “re-assembled”, including primarily financial and organizational mechanisms, streamlining and normalizing funding sources, eliminating financial inequality of schools in different regions and laying down the principles of remuneration, school independence, and the principles of teacher certification. This should be a resource standard, not a control standard as it is now.
Pavel Sevyarynets, director of the Moscow school N 1679:
– It is important that the requirements for learning outcomes have been clarified in the new version. Before that, everything was very vague. Many teachers and the administration were often lost. Have not seen the lighthouses. The positions on electronic educational resources, distance learning were also clarified: the pandemic has made its own adjustments. In addition, the Educational Work Program with a list of activities will become mandatory. This is important: education has never left school, it is part of the work of the entire team.
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