The teaching community has been thrilled by the introduction of new primary education standards since September 2011. Teacher-theorists quite reasonably offer modern requirements for training and education in primary school. Practitioners are also convincingly protesting, citing the difficulties of Russian education.
School reforms never go quietly. This is evidenced by the bright history of pedagogy. Problems always arise due to the fact that “above” is not visible what is happening “below”. They introduced per capita funding for schools in order to stimulate teachers, but did not think about how this would turn out in Russia. Most Russian schools in villages and small towns were left without a socio-psychological service, without GPA teachers, without organizers of the children's movement. Thus, salaries are increased for subject teachers and elementary school teachers. The load on primary school teachers has increased several times. And now also the second generation standards.
The idea, as always, is a good one. Nobody argues with this. Education in elementary school should be based on uniform requirements based on the expected results in the personal development of students, in the development of subjects, in the formation of universal educational activities.
Having become acquainted with the list of requirements, we can say that education in elementary school for many years included most of them. They simply were of a recommendatory nature, not normative. Primary school teachers have always tried to educate their little schoolchildren with good people. They devoted enough space to moral education, health conservation, collectivism, aesthetic perception of the world, etc.
Primary school education should change to a greater extent. The concept of the development of universal educational activities underlies the programming of the educational process at school. Universal educational actions that need to be formed in younger schoolchildren will make it possible to bring to the fore the personal activity of the student, his motivation in cognitive activity. UUD should prepare a school graduate for successful independent life planning.
Education in elementary school should give the student the opportunity to master various ways of solving problems (both educational and applied), learn to set goals, plan, determine the results of his activities, be able to act in situations of victory (success) and defeat (failure), in the initial form master reflective skills, actively use models, symbols, schemes for solving assigned educational problems.
The younger student must confidently use information and communication technologies, successfully work with text information. The list of UUD includes the ability to speak publicly, using various types of information.
In addition, a primary school graduate must be prepared for conflict-free collaboration and joint work in a group of students.
Teaching methods in elementary school are also being revised. The priority is the project activity of students.
Education in elementary school in accordance with new standards should be focused on the individual educational trajectory of each student.
Of course, the requirements of the second generation standards correspond to the present. But back to those who will directly implement these standards in practice. Left alone with the new requirements, with 10 required hours of extracurricular work, with a huge list of necessary documentation, can the teacher withstand all this just physically? Will he have the opportunity to just talk heart to heart with the child? How much the attention of the teacher and his smile mean to a first-grader!
How to create motivation to study at the elementary level of the school, if a simple teacher does not even have time to check all notebooks. One of them does weight in the corridor during the break (you cannot leave children unattended), the other sits until the morning. But what about the health of teachers - is that not important?
Of course, it is quite possible to introduce standards in the coordinated work of primary school teachers, computer science teachers, psychologists, and additional education teachers. If the school has computer classes for primary school, rooms for additional education. But such schools are one in a thousand in the Russian outback. Most often, at the front of the elementary school there is only one thing left - the first teacher of the kids. Do they think about him when they decide to reform elementary school education ?