Evening school is an opportunity to make up for the gap in education, to take up the mind, to think about the prospects, combining the educational process with work. Such educational institutions are of particular importance in the domestic education system.
Activity specifics
The evening general education school occupies an intermediate position between ordinary daytime educational institutions and additional education. From television screens, information about the availability of modern school education is heard. In real life, depending on various factors, part of high school students are forced to leave the walls of their native school, to look for a way to make money.
Evening school is a chance to acquire education, without which it is difficult to count on career advancement. Every citizen at any age has the opportunity to receive a full secondary education. Then, a graduate of such an institution may continue to study at a higher educational institution.
Evening schools are not only a way to bridge the gaps in education, but also an excellent reason to think about the near future, combining education with work.
Who can attend evening school
During the existence of the Soviet Union, such educational institutions were in demand among working youth far from school age. Currently, the situation has changed radically. Now, evening school students are teenagers from dysfunctional families, unable to study in ordinary educational institutions. About a third of the students are young people who have left school age, who work in various companies. Of course, we are not talking about the fact that every high school student has the right to drop out of high school and replace it with an evening form of education. According to the legislation in force in the Russian Federation, only teenagers who have received permission from the juvenile commission have the right to go to such an educational institution.
Who else can an evening school “shelter"? After it, the guys can work under the contract in the ranks of the RF Armed Forces, because without secondary education it is impossible to do this.
Also, students of the evening school are athletes who, due to constant trips to competitions, can’t cope with the program of an ordinary comprehensive school.
Evening school problems
An evening school in Moscow is a common phenomenon these days. These educational institutions have a lot of problems caused by the reform of the domestic educational system. We list some of them:
- financing of material and technical, methodological part, as well as staff on a residual basis;
- lack of special training programs;
- low teacher status.
Among other educational institutions, due to minimal funding, it is the evening school that remains without high-quality cosmetic repairs and teaching materials. The city does not always allocate material resources to solve such a problem.
Difficulties also arise with the staffing of such an educational institution. There are not enough methodologists, social educators, psychologists, educators.
Evening school is a special version of educational organizations in which special teaching aids should be used. Due to insufficient funding, teachers are forced to independently revise standard curricula, adjusting them to the number of hours that stand out in evening schools.
Training specifics
According to the educational standards that are established in the Russian Federation, the duration of studies in evening schools is three years. An increase in the duration of studies is a necessary measure, since classes in these educational institutions are not held every day, and the number of classes is significantly less than in day schools.
Based on the name of this educational institution, it can be understood that classes are held in the evenings. Most of the evening schools operate from 16 to 20 hours. Pupils can choose for themselves an individual schedule for attending classes, having previously agreed with the teaching staff that they will carry out part of the lessons on their own, without attending evening school.
Daytime form
Currently, there are evening schools that offer full-time education. Lessons in such educational institutions begin at 9 am and end at 15-16 hours. With this form, students attend school four times a week. The main contingent are adolescents from dysfunctional families who were unable to study in ordinary comprehensive schools. Teachers are quite loyal to such students, use a differentiated approach in their professional activities.
Among the distinguishing features of modern evening schools, one can also distinguish the class composition of different ages. At one desk, a person of considerable age and a teenager can be located here.
The heterogeneity of the composition has certain positive aspects. A person who has sufficient life experience will be able to share it with his classmate. Since the staff of such an educational institution rarely has a psychologist, the diversity of the student body is an excellent psychological consultation between generations. But there are drawbacks in such differentiation, because friendships rarely arise between schoolchildren, and there are no common interests between representatives of the same class.
Perspectives of existence
Over the past few years, our country has been actively discussing the issue of the existence of evening schools. Some experts are convinced that in modern society such educational institutions are not needed. Proponents of this idea argue their point of view by the fact that today secondary education can be obtained both in a regular school and in a remote way. But the results of numerous statistical studies suggest that in recent years there has been a significant increase in the demand of the population for such a form of education. Many modern people want to get secondary education without stopping from work, and they have 10-15 years of working experience.
Reasons for the demand for evening schools
Where does the number of citizens who want to receive secondary education appear in the walls of evening schools? According to UNESCO, in Russia today there are more than a million illiterate children and adolescents. Instead of studying at their desks, they lead a wandering lifestyle.
Among the reasons for the demand for the evening form of training, experts single out the optimization process, which involves the closure of low-grade educational institutions. Not all children have the opportunity to travel to other settlements to continue their studies, so often it is evening school that remains the only way not only to get an education, but also to become a full member of society.
Conclusion
Given the demand for evening schools among adolescents, working youth, the question of their closure is currently suspended. Despite the complex and diverse age contingent, not only training classes, but also various events are held at these educational institutions.