Photo: Press service of the Mayor and Government of Moscow. Evgeniy Samarin

For additional education, Moscow uses the potential of not only schools, but also colleges, enterprises, universities, museums, and theaters.

The circle movement in Russia is on the rise. This was stated by the Chairman of the Russian Government, Dmitry Medvedev, at a meeting held at the Palace of Children's Creativity on Vorobyovy Gory. The event dedicated to the development of additional education was attended by the Minister of Education and Science of Russia Olga Vasilyeva, and representatives of executive authorities of other regions, heads of educational institutions and teachers.

“We need to think about how best to disseminate the experience that existed before and the experience that is emerging today. We, of course, strive to ensure that there are as many modern, well-equipped clubs and sections as possible,” Dmitry Medvedev noted, adding that a new model of education is being created in Russia. It is based on an individual approach to the development of each child. The core of the new model will be children's technology parks and additional education centers. By the end of the year, about 40 technology parks should appear in Russia. “We have identified additional education as a separate priority project within the framework of the projects that the Government is involved in,” noted the Chairman of the Government.

Additional education and clubs help children understand what they would like to become in the future. Dmitry Medvedev explained: “This is very important, because after all, such early vocational guidance allows the student to prepare for school, especially when it comes to studying in complex technical institutions.”

Sergei Sobyanin, in turn, noted that in recent years the number of children receiving additional education in Moscow has almost doubled - now there are more than 800 thousand. “It became obvious to us when we analyzed the situation in 2011-2012 that, by and large, Moscow’s potential is much greater than what was tapped. In 2012, just over 400 thousand children received additional education in Moscow,” he added.

The city began to make more use of the potential not only of schools, but also of colleges, enterprises, universities, museums, and theaters. “In essence, we created a project in which our school, an ordinary secondary school, became the center of integration of the entire urban space,” said the Moscow Mayor.

Additional education is in great demand among parents, and Moscow will actively develop it. It will be possible to use the resources of the Moscow Electronic School for classes in clubs and sections. Sergei Sobyanin emphasized: “In our opinion, within a year, a year and a half, or maximum two years, this project will already be an everyday occurrence, an ordinary story, without which it will be difficult to conduct modern lessons at all, including in the field of additional education.”

Exhibition of pre-professional additional education

The meeting participants also viewed an exhibition of city projects in this area. Several Moscow ones were also presented there. At the stands dedicated to the medical classes that appear in the capital's schools, they showed interactive first aid simulators, a telementor (telemedicine simulator), and digital laboratories for biochemistry and physiology. As part of this project, master classes are held on laboratory analysis of food, injections and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Sergei Sobyanin said: “Schools are equipped with medical equipment, they can provide both basic pre-profile knowledge and additional ones, for this you don’t need to run somewhere, you can get a whole set of pre-profile skills at your school. The same goes for engineering and academic classes.”

For the project “Engineering Class in a Moscow School,” educational institutions received equipment for an engineering laboratory complex. Schools organize master classes on the use of digital laboratories and 3D modeling on interactive drawing boards. At the stand, which talks about autonomous robot competitions, you can see robo-football games and a demo exam on mobile robotics. Also on display are robots developed by student winners of the World Exhibition of Young Inventors in Japan.

In addition, the exhibition presents the Neuropiloting project. These are master classes on controlling quadcopters using a neural interface. And the project “Circle from the Champion” includes master classes from the winner of the WorldSkills championship of professional excellence in the “Chemical Laboratory Analysis” competency.

“The city as a school”: additional education for children in Moscow

An extensive system of additional education has been created in the capital, which includes clubs and sections in general education, sports, music, art schools and children's creativity centers, as well as at the place of residence. As part of the “City as a School” project, universities and scientific organizations, theaters and concert halls, museums and sports schools, parks and estates, industrial and transport enterprises, children’s art schools and veterans’ organizations have joined in the additional education of young Muscovites.

Since 2013, Moscow has had a system of unified electronic registration of children in sections and clubs. Parents can find out complete information about the programs implemented in the city system of additional education on the portal.

The citywide portal provides a convenient search for the desired club or section near your home, a convenient registration of a child, a consolidated personalized record of children attending clubs and sections regardless of departmental affiliation, and an individual educational trajectory for each young Muscovite.

Clubs and sections are now most actively developing in secondary schools, which are as convenient as possible for children and parents.

Compared to 2012, the total number of clubs in the city system of additional education increased by 2.5 times - from 48 thousand to 120 thousand. The number of children attending them has almost doubled - from 429 thousand to 841 thousand.

In this case, one child can attend several clubs and sections.

In 78 percent of clubs, children study for free, and in 22 percent, on a paid basis. The cost of paid classes and the amount of benefits are set by the organizations themselves based on the decision of the governing council.

Priority for additional education has become areas that help ensure the successful socialization and professional career of the younger generation: engineering, medicine, science and technology, integrated safety. The number of children enrolled in these programs has been increasing in recent years. The share of those involved in technical clubs increased between 2015 and 2017 from six to 12 percent, and in science clubs from 16 to 18 percent.

There are also projects in Moscow that integrate general and additional education into a single system: “Engineering class” - 60 schools and more than three thousand students, “Medical class” - 72 schools and more than 3.5 thousand students, “Academic class” - 10 schools and 500 students, “Cadet class” - 168 schools and 12.5 thousand students.

“Saturdays of Moscow Schoolchildren” are also of great interest. They include several projects. For example, 60 universities participate in “University Saturdays,” which hold more than 2.5 thousand events annually for 340 thousand participants. As part of the “Activist Saturdays” project, trainings and master classes are held for 3.8 thousand people; more than 15 thousand young Muscovites participate in “Saturdays of Courage”. And the “Professional Environment” project involves 42 colleges, which organize 600 master classes for 47 thousand participants.

On behalf of the President of Russia, the “Circle from the Champion” project has been implemented in Moscow since September 1, 2016. Schoolchildren - winners of All-Russian and international Olympiads, as well as college students - winners of the WorldSkills and Abilympics professional championships teach classes in 400 clubs with more than 4.5 thousand schoolchildren.

The following projects are also being implemented in Moscow:

— “Pre-university” — it involves 11 universities and over 3.5 thousand students;

— “Vocational Training” — the project covers 52 colleges and 135 professions. 1,700 schoolchildren received professional certificates;

- “Lesson in the Technopark” - in the Mosgormash Technopark, 120 school students and 130 college students study geoinformatics, modern astronautics, robotics, more than 200 schoolchildren are engaged in additional education programs; In the Moscow technopolis, about 300 schoolchildren study modules of the subject “technology”. Children's technology parks called “Quantorium” have also been opened here;

- “Masterslavl”, “KidZania”, “Kidburg” - children's parks - cities of professions.

The capital regularly takes part in the “Young Professionals” championships of professional excellence. At the WorldSkills competition (their participants are from 18 to 23 years old) in 2017, the Moscow team took first place in the team competition, winning 32 medals, including 22 gold. The Moscow team also won the JuoniorSkills championship (for children from 10 to 17 years old) this year, winning 27 medals, including 17 gold.

Vorobyovy Gory: the main children's address in Moscow

The Palace of Children's Creativity on Vorobyovy Gory dates back to 1936 - from the opening of the City House of Pioneers and Octobrists on Stopan (the current name of the lane is Ogorodnaya Sloboda).

For decades, the Palace of Pioneers was the largest and most famous center of children's creativity in the country. There have always been many children's creative associations, studios, artistic groups, clubs and sections of technical, natural science, physical education and sports, art, tourism, local history and social and pedagogical orientation. In total, the Palace has more than 1.3 thousand clubs and sections.

In 2014, it was reorganized into the Vorobyovy Gory educational complex - a multidisciplinary educational institution that combines the functions of a kindergarten, school, college and its main specialization of additional education for children.

It included 12 additional education institutions, two kindergartens, three secondary schools, one college and a year-round educational center “Team”.

The total area of ​​the complex buildings is 104.7 thousand square meters, the total area of ​​the territory is 70 hectares.

Now about 30 thousand children study there. These include 272 preschoolers, 2,773 schoolchildren, 380 college students and 29.5 thousand children enrolled in the additional education program (22 thousand of them are on the main site of the Palace of Pioneers).

76 11th grade graduates successfully completed it. Of these, 43 people scored at least 220 points in three Unified State Exam subjects. 19 graduates were awarded a gold medal “For academic success.” Among the graduates of 2015-2017, there are ten laureates of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation in the field of supporting talented youth (biology, ecology, technical creativity), five winners of the final stage of the All-Russian Olympiad for schoolchildren in Moscow (biology, astronomy, history, Italian), three winner (social studies, physics) and eight prize-winners (astronomy, history, physics) of the Moscow Olympiad for schoolchildren.

Every year, the Vorobyovy Gory educational complex holds more than 700 events as part of city festivals and holidays, in which students and their parents participate. Particular attention is paid to children with disabilities, orphans and large families.

The educational complex employs 2.3 thousand people, including 1.3 thousand teachers. General Director of the Vorobyovy Gory State Pedagogical Educational Institution is Irina Sivtsova, Honored Teacher of Russia, Candidate of Sociological Sciences.

Additional education at school is a means of continuous education of a child and the formation of his personality. This concept should not be confused with extracurricular activities, which involve classes in clubs and sections that are in no way related to each other. Additional education at school consists of activities and electives combined into a single space.

Goals and meaning

The purpose of creating the system is the early detection of a child’s inclinations and talents, the formation of his interests and assistance in professional self-determination.

In general, the system of preschool education for students:

• meets the needs of schoolchildren;
• helps to reveal personality and creative potential;
• provides psychological and social comfort for children;
• builds relationships between students;
• encourages self-development and self-discipline;
• realizes the potential of general school education by deepening and applying knowledge acquired in the classroom.

The value of additional education is that it makes children feel the importance of learning at school, encourages them to take classes more responsibly and contributes to the implementation of the knowledge that they receive in the classroom.

A child, expressing himself from a young age, will be able to achieve great results in the future and make fewer mistakes on his life and professional path. The system of additional education at school encourages students to develop independently, forms an attachment to creative activities and helps to increase their own status in the eyes of their peers.

Keeping a child busy outside of school develops discipline, organization, and self-control. Joint classes teach students to work as part of a group, strengthen team spirit, develop communication skills and responsibility not only to themselves, but also to members of the entire team.

Directions

Basic information received in school lessons cannot fully satisfy the need for knowledge. Considering that not everyone is able to engage in self-study, the importance of effective organization of additional education at school is difficult to overestimate. The correct structure includes all areas of interest to children and adolescents. It should include:

• Construction and robotics. Children are offered an in-depth study of computer science and programming, and the possibilities of using information and digital technologies in practice are highlighted.
• Natural science. Instills in children research skills, fosters global thinking, and develops an understanding of the practical application of theoretical knowledge.
• Ecological direction. Reveals the relationship between man and nature, indicates its role in people's lives.
• Culturology. Helps to introduce children to the achievements of world civilization, helps them adapt to society, and realize their own potential in various aspects of society.
• Physical education and sports direction. Instills physical education skills in students, creates a desire for a healthy lifestyle, convinces them of the prestige of sports, develops willpower and responsibility, develops team spirit and the ability to work as part of a group.

An important element of this structure is extracurricular additional education, i.e. sections and clubs in which children realize their creative potential. They stimulate students’ interest in certain activities, provide an opportunity to acquire new knowledge and skills and consolidate those already acquired in the process of general education.

System organization

High-quality additional education for schoolchildren is impossible without competent management, which does not fit into the simple scheme of vertical relations between the administration, teachers and students. It involves fruitful interaction between the parties, each of which is an object or subject of management.

The organization of additional education at school consists of several stages:

• Studying the desires and needs of schoolchildren. Data are collected through written questionnaires and testing, oral surveys of the children themselves and their parents, and conducting pedagogical monitoring of the quality of education of students at the stage of completion of primary and secondary school.
• Association into interest groups, creation of circles, sections and electives. Based on the collected data, a model of the additional education system is formed. The basic concepts of the direction of extracurricular education are highlighted. Activities are developed in accordance with the number of people who want and need additional knowledge.
• Help teachers and students identify areas of study. Children are given free choice. Before starting classes, students are offered professional testing, the results of which can be used as a guide, but they are not fundamental.
• Current control and timely correction of work. A reporting period is determined, at the end of which data is collected on attendance at additional classes and student performance in core subjects. Information is systematized and analyzed. Based on the processing results, problems are identified and corrective measures are developed.
• Analysis of activities and identification of promising areas. The quality of education of students attending additional classes is constantly monitored. Interdepartmental interactions are developing, experience is being exchanged on educational issues, and information technologies are being introduced.

Material base

To organize the system of additional education, the base of the educational institution is mainly used: classrooms, literature, equipment. Not all institutions have sufficient resources for in-depth study of subjects and extracurricular activities.

Therefore, the school has paid additional education, which implies a fixed cost of attendance. It includes payment for teacher services, equipment and rental of premises if classes are held outside the educational institution.

Some schools overcome the situation by organizing free extracurricular education, which involves collecting financial or material resources necessary to purchase additional equipment, supplies or literature.

On October 27, 2019 at 12.00 local time, the Geographical Dictation of the Russian Geographical Society will be held for the fifth time in Russia and abroad. A large-scale international educational event, initiated by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Society, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, has long become a traditional event for all people who are not indifferent to the romance of geographical discoveries, research and travel. People who are exemplified by the heroic personalities of pioneers, whose genuine interest is aroused by amazing patterns and relationships in nature, who seriously think about solving the challenges and tasks posed to modern society. According to tradition, the Dictation will be held in person at specially organized venues, as well as online at project website: dictant.rgo.ru. In our school, the geographical dictation will be held on Sunday, October 27, on the basis of ShK-11 in rooms No. 401; 402; 404.Starts at 12.00. We invite everyone to participate.

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Every kilometer of a student’s life should be filled with education

Gone are the days when schools differed from each other only by their serial numbers. Now time itself dictates new rules and requirements, and the winner is the school that takes this into account. Are there modern schools in South Butovo whose readiness to keep up with the times is determined not by the future tense, but by the present? Why is it so important that basic and additional education at school are equal and complementary elements? What is the rhetoric of additional education today? Olga Anatolyevna Troshina, deputy director of GBOU School No. 2009 for additional education, answers these and other questions.

About additional education

Additional education is a type of education that is aimed at comprehensively satisfying a person’s educational needs in intellectual, spiritual, moral, physical and (or) professional improvement and is not accompanied by an increase in the level of education (Federal Law “On Education in the Russian Federation” No. 273-FZ dated 29 December 2012, chapter 1, article 2).
Additional education is included in the system of lifelong education, which unites all levels of education.

Additional education is an educational process aimed at meeting a person’s need to improve basic intellectual, professional and special skills. The methodology is based on developing existing skills and acquiring new knowledge.

What are the features of out-of-school children's educational institutions?

The school educational program is focused primarily on the child’s acquisition of fundamental knowledge. Despite this, many practical skills necessary for a successful career in life remain outside the school curriculum. Therefore, most parents try to ensure that their children attend various specialized clubs and sections in addition.

School education can also achieve such goals through the introduction of special courses and lectures. Among the institutions where additional education programs are implemented, there are the following: general education (palaces of children's and youth creativity, young naturalist stations), professional (art schools), sports, technical, scientific, social organizations, as well as special (correctional) educational institutions. But here these programs are already basic and fundamental. This is how school differs from a regular educational institution.

Main tasks of sections and circles

For younger students, classes are often conducted in the form of games. Thanks to such activities, students are focused on success at an early age and learn to solve non-standard problems. For them, additional education programs look like an exciting way to spend their own leisure time in a circle of like-minded people. Employment of schoolchildren outside of school hours helps to strengthen self-organization, resistance to the influence of negative environmental factors, and forms the concept of a healthy lifestyle.

Planning students' time

Children's schools of additional education allow us to solve the problem of expediently spending leisure time for students, reducing the likelihood of the influence of “bad companies”. Often in institutions of this type, groups are divided not by age, but by the degree of mastery of the subject, stimulating communication between various age categories with varying degrees of life experience. This gives positive results: children develop social skills to communicate with like-minded people of all age groups, and the process of rapid maturation is stimulated.

Is an additional education program needed at school?

Clubs and various sections at school allow you to increase the learning space by including the student in a social life filled with interesting tasks and problems that require an individual approach to solution. Self-expression and self-affirmation of schoolchildren is activated, and their personalities develop comprehensively.

Institutions of additional education and the school, interacting, ensure the comprehensive intellectual, spiritual and professional development of the child. In addition, the baby begins to understand how one can engage in personal self-improvement. Through the integration of basic and additional education, students participate in various types of activities, ensuring the interconnection of the cognitive and creative spheres.

Additional educational programs for children should be introduced in kindergarten, thus instilling in the child the habit of constantly enriching their knowledge and skills.

Lack of motivation as the main problem of the educational process

Teachers in general education institutions often face similar difficulties. In additional institutions, students usually make informed choices. They decide for themselves in what direction their education will be directed. Unless this choice was imposed on them by overly caring parents. Therefore, mothers and fathers should ask: why do carefree schoolchildren who seem to have no “adult problems” often experience overload?

It is worth observing the golden mean - the child must have time for play and walks. After all, if there is not enough personal space, the student will use additional activities to relax. The consequences of information overload can be quite dire: from apathy to violent protest.

Prospects

Living in modern society involves high levels of stress. According to many scientists, creative activity is an effective means of removing a person from a stressful state. Children are even more susceptible to external influences, so psychologists often recommend that they engage in additional creativity. Education at school, focusing on basic subjects, at this stage does not allow students to receive a sufficient level of creative growth, which is closely related to personal growth. Therefore, the conclusion suggests itself: additional and basic components should form a single educational space.

In addition, recently many graduates are faced with the fact that regular schooling is not enough to enter some educational institutions. Therefore, the educational program of additional education at school often involves a final certification, based on the results of which the student is issued a document indicating the acquisition of new knowledge and skills. This allows you to expand your capabilities when choosing a future profession.