Educational technologies help class teachers solve issues related to the formation of work plans for the school year.
It is difficult to imagine the activities of a modern Russian school without extracurricular activities.
Functions
Education at school is associated with the activity of class teachers. Pedagogical planning carried out in the process of such an activity has certain functions:
- a guide that is associated with the identification of the scope of activity during planning;
- subject, goals, content of activity, types and directions;
- forecasting, consisting in creating a work plan, forecasting results;
- Organizational, which enables educators to receive answers to certain questions during the planning process through rational and informed actions;
- reproductive, involving the restoration of the volume and content of the work done over a period of time.
What it is
The organization of educational work is associated with planning. It is customary to mean joint activities of the class teacher, parents, and schoolchildren aimed at identifying goals and the content of the educational process in the classroom team.
The educational plan of the class is a model for the development and improvement of relations between members of the class team.
Principles of work planning
In order to implement plans, certain educational technologies are needed. Among those principles that are required for successful educational work, we note:
- specificity;
- consistency;
- dialogue;
- continuity;
- science;
- individuality.
These principles of educational activity are aimed at analyzing all its constituent components, the relationship between teachers, students, parents.
The systematic nature of educational activities involves taking into account individual and collective interests, needs, and value orientations of all participants in educational activities.
The main goal of educational work is the development of a harmonious personality, able to adapt in modern society.
Organization of Activities
The deputy director for educational work ensures that class teachers not only draw up and submit to him plans for working with schoolchildren and parents, but also work according to their plans.
The specificity of educational activities in the school involves an indication in the planning of the main classroom and school-wide events.
In addition to the list of contests and festivals, it is imperative that the dates of their conduct are included in the educational plan for the year.
Depending on the characteristics of the team, the class teacher selects in his work certain methods and forms of activity that allow to obtain the desired result.
The optimality of the choice of methods, methods of activity of the educator is based on three important circumstances of his activity:
- the need to find the best option for the participation of students and their parents in the educational activities of the class, school;
- the result of such work should be ideas about the structure of the life activity of the class team;
- the class teacher is obliged to choose the optimal form, structure of the plan of his activity, so that it is convenient to use.
The Importance of Parenting at School
The main goal of educational work at school is to create the conditions for self-development and self-improvement of each student. The dialogue between the children, parents, and teachers enables the class teacher to build trusting relationships, identify certain problems in a timely manner, and look for ways to resolve them.
The deputy director for educational work is the main ally and assistant of any class teacher, it is his task to coordinate the activities of school groups with educational organizations, creative institutions.
Second-generation federal standards impose certain requirements on the organization of educational activities in modern educational institutions. For the tasks set by the Federal State Educational Standard, the class teacher should pay attention to the opinion of each child, take into account the wishes of parents, legal representatives of schoolchildren (guardians), choose a range of ways and options for planning the life and activities of the classroom team.
Practical tips
Currently, environmental education in the school is one of the priority activities of the class teacher. It is during extracurricular trips, joint holidays and events that the younger generation is introduced to nature, and skills for caring for it are formed.
Modern environmental education in the school is not limited only to discussions about the rules of behavior in the forest, it is a comprehensive planning that takes into account various aspects of the activity: the formation of healthy lifestyle skills, personal hygiene, psychological comfort.
Work with gifted children
The purpose of the educational work of the class teacher is that the children entrusted to him can develop, show their natural abilities and talents. Of course, the final result of all educational activities directly depends on how responsibly the teacher treats his functional responsibilities.
All the attempts of the class teacher related to the creation of a unified program of educational activities in the classroom team are aimed specifically at identifying and developing the creative abilities of the younger generation.
Children who have extraordinary abilities are much more difficult to adapt in ordinary life, it is difficult for them to establish relationships with classmates. It is the teacher who must think through such activities in the classroom that would maximize the overcoming of such barriers and help create a positive attitude within the classroom.
The main goal of educational work is precisely in the early identification of giftedness, the creation of optimal conditions for the subsequent development of extraordinary students.
If the teacher manages to find an approach to such students, the giftedness of the child will not be a heavy burden for him, but joy and desire for new victories and creative achievements.
Activities of the class teacher
Introduction to Russian folk culture is one of the options for organizing extracurricular activities. Planning and holding joint holidays, during which students will get acquainted with the traditions of their ancestors, should be foreseen. The House of Creativity, which is available in almost every Russian city, is a reliable assistant and ally in the work of the class teacher. Psychologists classify gifted children as a “risk group”, since it is among them that the suicide rate is high. In order to avoid such situations, the planning of the educational program in the school is carried out by teachers, psychologists in joint activities to take into account the age characteristics of students.
After the reform of domestic education, the introduction of federal educational standards of the second generation, classroom teachers had a real opportunity to independently plan their activities in the classroom team.
Differentiation and individualization of extracurricular activities makes it possible to exclude the averaging of children that exists during the classical Soviet school.
Features of the teacher:
- creating optimal conditions for the development of children in different directions;
- tracking the achievements of pupils;
- the interest of the class teacher in the uniqueness of the child;
- possession of information about relationships in the family, financial situation.
Parenting is the process that is designed to manage the development of personality. The class teacher tries to involve parents, psychologists, and other specialists in the upbringing. By right, upbringing can be considered art. This is a touch on the inner world of the child, stimulating his self-development, self-improvement. Psychologists are convinced that the teacher who is engaged in educational activities is the creator of human souls. Giving his warmth, time, and strength to the children, he forever becomes a close and dear person to them. It is much easier for many children to tell the teacher about their problems than to open themselves to parents.
The house of creativity, in which various circles and creative studios operate, helps the child to reveal his creative potential. And yet, despite the fact that currently students receive a lot of opportunities for self-realization and self-improvement, the school is the place where children spend the maximum amount of their time.
If the classroom team does not have a comfortable microclimate, there is no question of any self-improvement and self-development.
Among the principles of education that guide the modern class teacher in his work, we highlight:
- nature conformity;
- the unity of the pedagogical and educational process;
- humanism;
- mutual creativity of the teacher and pupils.
Example
As an illustrative example of a modern educational program designed for middle managers, we give the material “Peace in our home”, compiled by Russian teachers. Its purpose is to identify, disclose, develop the creative personality of each pupil. The teacher tries to rely on his parents in his work, to build his activities on the principles of mutual respect and trust. The expected result from this educational program is considered to be a significant broadening of the horizons of schoolchildren, their comprehension of the cultural values of their people, the formation of a sense of pride for their land, and respect for the customs and traditions of the family and country.
The teacher is trying to build a system of his extracurricular activities so that the children communicate with each other based on the laws of beauty and goodness.
Among the main areas of work on this educational program, we note:
- study of the characteristics of students;
- rallying and developing a class team;
- involvement of parents, representatives of different structures in the work.
The functional-active component of this educational program implies building a link between the class council, administration, parents, as well as the numerous cultural organizations existing in the city (village).
In the calendar plan, the class teacher includes not only contests, conferences, trips, tourist gatherings, which he will organize together with members of the parent committee and class assets, but also those events that will be held at the school, as well as outside it. Such a grid is a work plan for the teacher, which he can use for a quarter, six months, the entire academic year.
In order to plan educational activities, first the class teacher analyzes the individual characteristics of each child, reveals their preferences, interests. In compliance with the sequence of actions, taking into account the wishes of not only schoolchildren, but also their parents (legal representatives), a certain program is formed at the teacher, which will become the basis for the development of a full-fledged educational program.
In any educational institution there is a methodical association of class teachers, where each teacher presents his educational program to his colleagues.
Conclusion
It is at the meetings of the methodological associations of class teachers that the adoption (rejection) of specific educational plans is carried out, the individual characteristics of each class team, and the parents' requests are taken into account. The deputy director for educational work is the curator of class teachers, helping them solve issues related to the compilation of thematic plans.
It is under the guidance of the head teacher that the preparation of seminars for class teachers is conducted, at which the results of work for the past academic year are analyzed, long-term planning for the new year is compiled.
It indicates not only specific events, their dates, but also methods and forms of participation in competitions, conferences, tournaments of parents and students. Particular attention is paid in terms of educational work, interaction with a school psychologist, conducting numerous diagnostics aimed at identifying problems in classrooms, identifying ways to solve them.