To the sounds of a waltz we will remember the glorious years ... School years ... Favorite school where you had to rush, so as not to be late for the first lesson, which, according to someone established tradition, was mathematics or physics. The teacher could well schedule a test for this day, which immediately spoiled the mood. A familiar picture? And so it was with many. Then, how much joy brought a seemingly sad case of a teacher’s illness, in connection with which his lessons were canceled. So why did school students feel rejection? Let’s think, why did you want to literally run away for some lessons, and run away from others? Interest! If the children were interested, they simply grabbed new information on the fly, they wanted to know more, they began to go to electives in this subject, to develop, deepen their knowledge.
What is a good school
So that for children to study does not become a long-term routine, caring parents find out the tendencies of their child by trial and error . So circles appear - choreography, wrestling, foreign languages, music school. Children learn all these new skills outside of a comprehensive school. So why the latter can not fully develop the child? Isn't that her primary concern?
Why guess. A quite worthy answer has already been found to this question - schools with in-depth study of subjects, for example, mathematics, foreign languages. These are the former so-called special schools. The rating of schools of such a plan is high. In the future, it is easier for their graduates to enter any prestigious university.
One of these is school number 444 in Moscow.
Start
Description 444 of the school should begin with its history. It was created in 1953. The photo below is one of her first releases. Its correct name today is “GBOU School No. 444”.
At its very beginning, the teaching staff was formed, the level of which is comparable not only with the most prestigious schools of the country, but also with leading universities:
- The first director of the school is Valentina Dmitrievna Golovina, Honored Teacher of the Russian Federation, mathematics teacher.
- The scientific supervisor of the school is Schwarzburd Semen Isaakovich (1918-1996), a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR since 1968, the holder of many awards and titles.
In fact, the school began with him. Schwarzburd realized his idea of creating physical and mathematical secondary schools in the USSR, wrote textbooks and methodological literature on this topic. The leadership agreed with him: the education of developed Soviet youth, who will move science, launch rockets into space, was even a political matter.
The author himself was instructed to implement his plan. Schwarzburd carried out the first recruitment of teachers, with whom he computerized the educational institution already in the 60s, thereby laying the foundation for an innovative school of the future. Teachers at the 444 school in Moscow came really extraordinary, enthusiasts of their craft. Just think about it: in the shops, parents still bought products whose value was calculated on wooden accounts, and their seventh-graders sat in the computer science lesson at the URAL computer and entered data through the keyboard into them. So, with the light hand of this truly great man for the first time in 444 schools in Moscow, and, probably, in the USSR, the training of Soviet programmers began.
In 1962, the Computing Center of the Central Research Institute for Integrated Automation was involved in this business, the building of which was purposefully built practically in the yard of 444 schools. Is it worth mentioning that since then the teaching staff has replenished with specialists of this institute. By the way, if you pay attention, even on a school photo under the names of teachers there is an abbreviation - (etc.) - the teacher is a purely university form of appeal. So, even in the little things you can see what high tasks the school set itself.
Of course, a new style of teaching, training in experimental, original methods made this school famous. Reviews about it began to boom throughout the city, immediately highlighting it in the unspoken rating of schools.
In 1963, Schwarzburd headed the laboratory for the development and implementation of new school curricula and teaching methods. The laboratory was created under the auspices of NIIS SMO (Research Institute for Content and Methods of Education). Since then, 444 schools have become, as it is now fashionable to say, a pilot project, an experimental place for practicing new teaching methods and for disseminating the most successful ones to other educational institutions.
Today it is a school with in-depth study of mathematics, computer science and physics. It will be useful to study the feedback on this institution for those parents who wish to help their child in adulthood receive not just a good education, but also find their favorite job. Indeed, there, according to experts, the majority of the time allotted to us by fate is spent. So let this time be one of the best in life.
New era
Since 1978, Inna Ivanovna Kryuchkova became the principal of 444. This honored teacher of the RSFSR school, like her predecessor, is a mathematician and, in addition, until 2013, she is the permanent director. The arrival of Kryuchkova marked a new era in the development of the school.
In 1992, 444 schools were given the name of an experimental physics and mathematics school-college; since 1994, it has become a laboratory school. But clarification of the names can only partially demonstrate to the inexperienced layman what is in front of him. School year after year received and is receiving various nominations and statuses of the highest quality. Its graduates become coveted students of the best metropolitan universities.
Since 2006, the educational institution received the official status of an innovation center. Schoolchildren are regular participants in various olympiads and competitions.
Golovin completed the era of old-school directors. Since 2013, the 444th has been headed by P. Sevyarynets, a young historian and, of course, a laureate of grants and competitions.
This is a very good sign for the school - the longevity of its directors. The educational institution is a kind of analogue of the family, and the leapfrog of its leaders affects it as the divorce of parents on children. The quality of teaching immediately begins to suffer, because the school is in constant development, absorbs and develops new technologies. But this story is not about the 444th. Young enthusiastic teachers are still attracted here.
The first steps
The result of the first few years of directing the new school leader is the preservation of the teaching staff, a single team of teachers. This means continuity of traditions.
Of course, the new director also includes new reforms. According to P. Sevyarynets, his teaching staff is actively working on a system for organizing preschool classes. Good results were given by such seemingly insignificant innovations as changing beds on the catwalks, which after sleep become playgrounds for children. This experience has already been adopted in other schools with preschool education.
The introduction of such a concept as “strata” is also associated with the new director. This conditional division of the material into several levels of complexity allows children to assimilate it as much as the level of their preparation is sufficient. If the child began to "gain momentum" in school, he is given material of greater complexity, if weak, it is easier. A differentiated approach allows children not to be left out of knowledge if they do not have time to understand or learn something from new material.
Features
444 school all consists of nuances and features. A lot of attention is paid to teaching methods in elementary school. At the core is the principle of developing learning. The load is distributed so as not to exceed the level set for this age.
Training fits into a five-day period. Innovations also relate to combining the lessons of labor and drawing in one subject. It is believed that the association achieves the learning objectives better, it is easier for children to develop as creative individuals.
English is beginning to be studied from grade 1. From the third, computer science is already being studied using modern computers: after all, a school with a mathematical bias. And of course, children are involved in contests, competitions. This helps them to better absorb material and easier, through the game form, to perceive new information, develop new skills.
In addition to participating in the children's choir, younger students are expected in circles - Lego-Design, Solar Laboratory, Young Researcher and others.
It is interesting that as a test of knowledge, teachers use the capabilities of KVN, contests, competitions and other forms of competition that require in-depth knowledge of the material and skills of mental activity.
Take the math. The usual course of this subject has been substantially revised here: topics are rearranged, supplemented with new information. The study of the subject is based on the practice of advanced learning with a through repetition of key topics, for the most in-depth mastery of the program, on the desire to create the conditions for independent thinking, the desire to learn new things. This is facilitated by additional practical exercises at seminars, in circles, projects, and laboratories.
The principle of developing education lies in teaching the Russian language (according to the program of Babaitseva S. V.) and literature (according to Korovina V. Ya.) As a result, the state standard was supplemented and integrated with world literature and generally gives children a more complete presentation of the material. Competitions, creative assignments enliven the learning process and make it interesting for students.
Physics. A complex subject based on formulas and relationships. His teaching is conducted according to the author’s methodology (Ph.D. Samoilova T.S. and Ph.D. Smirnova A.V.), in which physics and astronomy were integrated. Schoolchildren, as in the lessons of mathematics, computer science, are taught to develop independent thinking, analyze data, draw their own conclusions. Individual lessons, circles, project activities with scientists from research institutes create a special atmosphere of creativity in these lessons.
Vacations in 444 schools are no less happy than in any other. But, if schoolchildren of ordinary schools spend this time at their discretion, here, even in the period of rest established by law, cognitive activity does not stop. She continues to school camps, on excursions. For example, at the Geological Museum, the telecommunications company Mail Ru Group.
Laboratory of Solar Energy
The school impresses with its everyday attitude to innovative technologies. If for the average person solar energy is still somewhere far away and it is not clear what, then for a student in 444 school this is the topic of a regular lesson. Children come to the solar energy laboratory in grade 5. In a laboratory complex, scientific creativity reigns without borders. Children participate in exhibitions of their products, which are interested in serious domestic and foreign companies.
So, for example, here an ordinary schoolboy refined solar panels, in connection with which their power increased significantly due to the mechanisms of energy concentration.
It is hard to say that both in the school and in its laboratories, under the guidance of enthusiastic teachers, they study, they work as full-fledged specialists, which will welcome leading companies and institutes.
Cultural life of the school
After reading the above, it can be decided that the children in this school devote all their time to study. This is partly true. After completing the lessons, they go to their circles, laboratories, where they spend a lot of time. Of course, the school load, especially of such a level, has a serious impact on the health of any child, even a genius. But this would be so, if you do not take into account that the children are engaged in the experimental methods created here, and the teaching is, to put it mildly, not like in a regular comprehensive school. Therefore, the training methodology also provides for a varied rest.
- In the 50-60s, these were hiking with tents, visiting cultural attractions, organizing your own, collecting materials to create a museum of the Brest Fortress, various olympiads, scientific fights.
- 70-80s. In connection with the country's preparation for the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow, the idea of sports among students in various sports is emerging at the school. This is volleyball, football, tennis and others.
- The 90s. This is a period of the collapse of the country and a decline in interest in learning in general. But 444 school did not close and did not switch to a paid basis.
Today, the popularity of the school is growing. It is visited by foreign researchers of teaching methods. The accumulated experience is also interesting inside the country. Parents try by hook or by crook to attach their child here, which led to two-shift training. The second ends at 20.00 hours. Everyone wants to study at the innovative school of the future.
Virtual Museum of Informatics
Computer science already has its own history and it’s time to go to the museum. On the basis of 444 schools, her students created a virtual space of such a repository. This is what it is called - the Museum of Computer Science of School No. 444 in Moscow.
Those who want to plunge into the world of units and zeros can do this from the page of a special site, where they are also given the opportunity to compare what they see with information provided, for example, by the Portuguese, American museums of the history of computer science. The site contains data, perhaps, about all the museums of information technology created by leading foreign companies such as Apple, Microsoft.
The idea of creating a museum of computer science in the 444 school of Moscow appeared after a curious detail was found out by schoolchildren: on the Internet there are almost no references to the development of computer science in Russia, only foreign studies and achievements are indicated everywhere, which unfairly crosses out our country from this annals.
The Museum of Computer Science is accessible and illustrates with the era of the development of this science, the creation in the 50-60s of the Soviet computer base. Visitors are told about the contributions of A. A. Lyapunov and S. A. Lebedev to the domestic computer and space technologies of that time, about the Soviet computer BESM-6, used in Soyuz-Apollon, and developments that were significantly ahead of the American ones.
Now these achievements are perceived with sadness in our hearts, because we learn this information while sitting at foreign computers equipped, again, not with our software. The fact that there are schools in Russia with an in-depth study of the exact sciences gives hope that in our country a discovery can be made in this area that will solve at least some problems of our time.
Admission
Regarding the adoption of the child in school number 444, according to reviews, there is nothing critical. Oddly enough, admission to grade 1 occurs on a common basis. Some parents take him to a pre-school preparatory class to ensure the adoption of their child. It also helps in the future, both parents and the student to understand whether it is worth striving for this particular school, or to attend general education.
School number 444 accepts students in the 5th and so on classes, but after a preliminary interview. Students of this age are invited to determine what specialization he chooses - medical, engineering, mathematical-informational, or socio-economic. Such specialized classes prepare graduates for admission to the corresponding universities in Moscow, with which the school has long-standing and positive relations.
Some parents in their reviews of school No. 444 write that in recent years many teachers of the "old school" have left the school, thanks to which it was something high-tech. Now her buildings need repairs. Children go from case to case for lunch, and these movements do not leave them time to eat under normal conditions. Teachers teach "without a twinkle." This, of course, is a good school, the best in the area, but there are other educational institutions of its profile that are no worse.
Other parents write: in order to arrange a child here, they “cut off” all the phones of school No. 444. Despite the fact that there are still many physical and mathematical schools in the capital, it is not necessary to take the child here, this leads to overcrowding of classes. About this at the last "September 1" in school number 444, the director spoke to the parents present on the line.
schedule of lessons
Lessons at 444 schools usually begin - from 8 hours 30 minutes. Breaks between classes - from 10 to 20 minutes. The duration of the lesson is 45 minutes. A student in high school does 10 lessons a day, up to 18 hours 5 minutes.
Parental reviews of 444 schools indicate that children experience significant stress during school. If the child does not maintain such a pace, no possible school successes of his will compensate for his damaged health and spoiled childhood.
Food
Children at school eat in shift classes. Reusable meals for children, based on the age of the child, from fresh products. It is prepared in its own school kitchen. Breakfast - from 9 hours 15 minutes to 11 hours 35 minutes. Lunch time - from 13 hours 20 minutes to 14 hours 35 minutes. Breakfasts held at 10-11 hours take 20 minutes. The rest of the meals - 10 minutes.
The school administration approves relevant menus for every day, for example: for breakfast, cocoa with milk, sugar, waffles, bread, cottage cheese casserole; for lunch, goulash is given meat, buckwheat porridge, pickle, vegetable caviar, bread and rosehip broth. This complex is designed for children studying under the programs of basic and secondary general education, as well as elementary school. There is a menu for preschoolers.
They have butter, bread, tea with sugar and semolina for milk for breakfast. There is a second breakfast, which consists of water and berries or fruits, such as mandarin. They dine with fresh cucumber salad in vegetable oil, mashed soup in meat broth, stuffed cabbage, bread and crackers. Snack includes cheesecakes, milk, fermented baked milk, sugar and bread. Dinner is chicken fillet stewed in tomato sauce, buckwheat porridge, jelly, bread.
With the undoubted nutritional benefits of this nutritional system, parental concerns in reviews of school No. 444 cause short school changes, for which children should have time to safely eat, and not choke to catch the next lesson.
School address 444
Nizhnyaya Pervomaiskaya Street, 14, Moscow. The address is simple. How to get to school number 444, no questions arise. We can’t say that it is located in a privileged area, this street belongs to the Eastern Administrative District of Moscow, the Kremlin is not nearby. But nearby there is the Pervomaiskaya metro station, as well as bus stops No. 1013, N3, 634, 664, 645, 97, 257, 15, 97k, 223, trams No. 34, 34k, 11, trolleybus No. 22. There are also minibuses .
Here it is - a secondary school with in-depth study of individual subjects.