National educational initiative our new school. National educational initiative “our new school” General education for everyone and for everyone

I APPROVED
President of Russian Federation
D.Medvedev

National educational initiative “Our New School”

School is a critical element in this process. The main tasks of a modern school are to reveal the abilities of each student, to educate a decent and patriotic person, an individual ready for life in a high-tech, competitive world. School education should be structured so that graduates can independently set and achieve serious goals and skillfully respond to different life situations.

School of the future

What characteristics should a school have in the 21st century?

The new school is an institution that meets the goals of advanced development. The school will provide study not only of the achievements of the past, but also of technologies that will be useful in the future. Children will be involved in research projects and creative activities to learn to invent, understand and master new things, express their own thoughts, make decisions and help each other, formulate interests and recognize opportunities.

The new school is a school for everyone. Any school will ensure the successful socialization of children with disabilities, children with disabilities, children without parental care, and in difficult life situations. The age characteristics of schoolchildren will be taken into account; education will be organized differently at the primary, basic and senior levels.

A new school means new teachers, open to everything new, who understand child psychology and the developmental characteristics of schoolchildren, and who know their subject well. The teacher’s task is to help children find themselves in the future, become independent, creative and self-confident people. Sensitive, attentive and receptive to the interests of schoolchildren, open to everything new, teachers are a key feature of the school of the future. In such a school, the role of the director will change, his degree of freedom and level of responsibility will increase.

The new school is a center of interaction both with parents and the local community, as well as with cultural, healthcare, sports, leisure institutions, and other social organizations. Schools as leisure centers will be open on weekdays and Sundays, and school holidays, concerts, performances, and sporting events will be places for family recreation.

The new school has modern infrastructure. Schools will become modern buildings - the schools of our dreams, with original architectural and design solutions, with good and functional school architecture - a canteen with tasty and healthy food, a media library and library, high-tech educational equipment, broadband Internet, competent textbooks and interactive teaching aids, conditions for sports and creativity.

The new school is a modern system for assessing the quality of education, which should provide us with reliable information about how individual educational institutions and the education system as a whole work.

Main directions of development of general education:

1. Transition to new educational standards

From standards containing a detailed list of topics in each subject that are mandatory for every student to study, a transition will be made to new standards - requirements about what school programs should be, what results children should demonstrate, what conditions should be created in school to achieve these results.

In any educational program there will be two parts: compulsory and the one that is formed by the school. The higher the level, the more choices there are. The new standard provides for extracurricular activities - clubs, sports sections, various kinds of creative activities.

The result of education is not only knowledge in specific disciplines, but also the ability to apply it in everyday life and use it in further education. The student must have a holistic, socially oriented view of the world in its unity and diversity of nature, peoples, cultures, and religions. This is possible only as a result of combining the efforts of teachers of different subjects.

For work on standards to be effective, it is necessary to develop a system for assessing the quality of education. An independent assessment of schoolchildren’s knowledge is needed, including during their transition from 4th to 5th grade and from 9th to 10th grade. Mechanisms for independent assessment can be created by professional pedagogical unions and associations. Russia will continue to participate in international comparative studies of the quality of education and create methods for comparing the quality of education in various municipalities and regions.

Already in 2010, we will introduce new requirements for the quality of education, expanding the list of documents characterizing the success of each student. The Unified State Exam should remain the main, but not the only way to check the quality of education. In addition, we will introduce monitoring and comprehensive assessment of a student’s academic achievements, competencies and abilities. Training programs for high school students will be linked to their further choice of specialty.

2. Development of a support system for talented children

In the coming years, Russia will build an extensive system of searching, supporting and accompanying talented children.

It is necessary to develop a creative environment to identify especially gifted children in every secondary school. High school students should be given the opportunity to study in correspondence, part-time and distance learning schools, allowing them to master specialized training programs, regardless of their place of residence. It is necessary to develop a system of Olympiads and competitions for schoolchildren, the practice of additional education, and work out mechanisms for taking into account individual achievements of students when admitting them to universities.

At the same time, it is necessary to develop a support system for mature, talented children. These are, first of all, educational institutions with round-the-clock attendance. It is necessary to disseminate the existing experience in the activities of physics and mathematics schools and boarding schools at a number of Russian universities. For children who have demonstrated their talents in various fields of activity, rallies, summer and winter schools, conferences, seminars and other events will be organized to support their talent.

Working with gifted children must be economically feasible. The per capita funding standard should be determined in accordance with the characteristics of schoolchildren, and not just the educational institution. A teacher who has helped a student achieve high results should receive significant incentive payments.

3. Improving the teaching staff

It is necessary to introduce a system of moral and material incentives to support domestic teachers. And the main thing is to attract young talented people to the teaching profession.

The system of moral support consists of already established competitions for teachers (“Teacher of the Year”, “Educate a Person”, “I Give My Heart to Children”, etc.), a large-scale and effective mechanism for supporting the best teachers within the framework of the priority national project “Education”. This practice will expand at the level of constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The events planned in connection with the announcement of 2010 in Russia as the Year of the Teacher will contribute to increasing the prestige of the profession.

The material support system is not only a further increase in wage funds, but also the creation of a wage mechanism that will stimulate the best teachers, regardless of their work experience, and therefore attract young teachers to the school. As the experience of regional pilot projects shows, salaries can and should depend on the quality and results of teaching activities, assessed with the participation of school councils, and a complex of modern financial and economic mechanisms actually leads to an increase in teachers’ salaries. Work on introducing new wage systems should also be completed in all constituent entities of the Russian Federation over the next three years.

Another incentive should be the certification of teaching and management personnel - periodic confirmation of the teacher’s qualifications and their compliance with the tasks facing the school. The qualification requirements and qualification characteristics of teachers have been fundamentally updated; professional pedagogical competencies occupy a central place in them. There should be no bureaucratic obstacles for teachers, including young ones, who want to confirm a high level of qualifications before the established deadlines.

The system of teacher education needs to be seriously modernized. Pedagogical universities should be gradually transformed either into large basic centers for teacher training or into faculties of classical universities.

At least once every five years, teachers and school principals improve their qualifications. The corresponding programs should be flexibly changed depending on the interests of teachers, and therefore on the educational needs of children. Funds for advanced training should also be provided to school staff on the principles of per capita financing, so that teachers can choose both programs and educational institutions, including not only institutes for advanced training, but also, for example, pedagogical and classical universities. It is necessary to create data banks of organizations offering relevant educational programs in the regions. At the same time, directors and the best teachers should have the opportunity to study in other regions in order to have an idea of the innovative experience of their neighbors.

The experience of the best teachers should be disseminated in the system of teacher education, retraining and advanced training. Pedagogical practice of students of specialized universities and internships of existing teachers should take place on the basis of schools that have successfully implemented their innovative programs, primarily within the framework of the priority national project “Education”.

A separate task is to attract teachers to schools who do not have basic pedagogical education. Having undergone psychological and pedagogical training and mastered new educational technologies, they will be able to demonstrate to children, primarily high school students who have chosen a major, their rich professional experience.

4. Changing school infrastructure

With the help of an architectural competition, new projects for the construction and reconstruction of school buildings will be selected, which will begin to be used everywhere from 2011: it is necessary to design a “smart”, modern building.

It is necessary to update the standards for the design and construction of school buildings and structures, sanitary rules and nutritional standards, requirements for the organization of medical care for students and for ensuring school safety. Heating and air conditioning systems in buildings must provide the required temperature at all times of the year. Schools must be provided with drinking water and showers. Rural schools need to develop effective student transportation mechanisms, including requirements for school buses.

Small and medium-sized enterprises can undertake maintenance of school infrastructure on a competitive basis. This applies, first of all, to the organization of school meals, public services, repair and construction work. We will demand from builders and service organizations to strictly ensure the safety of school buildings - classes should not be allowed to be held in emergency, dilapidated, adapted premises that pose a threat to the life and health of children. Another requirement is to introduce modern design solutions that provide a comfortable school environment. The architecture of the school space should allow for the effective organization of project activities, classes in small groups, and a variety of forms of work with children.

5. Preserving and strengthening the health of schoolchildren

Balanced hot meals, medical care, including timely medical examination, sports activities, including extracurricular ones, implementation of preventive programs, discussion with children about healthy lifestyle issues - all this will influence the improvement of their health. In addition, a transition must be made from mandatory activities for all to individual health development programs for schoolchildren. In 2010, a new standard for physical education will be introduced - at least three hours a week, taking into account the individual characteristics of children.

It is an individual approach that involves the use of modern educational technologies and the creation of educational programs that will arouse a child’s interest in learning. The practice of individual education taking into account age characteristics, studying elective subjects, and a general reduction in classroom load in the form of classical training sessions will have a positive impact on the health of schoolchildren. But not only measures from adults are needed here. It is much more important to awaken in children a desire to take care of their health, based on their interest in learning, choosing courses that are adequate to their individual interests and inclinations. A rich, interesting and exciting school life will become the most important condition for maintaining and strengthening health.

6. Expanding the independence of schools

We will legislate equality between public and private educational institutions, providing families with greater opportunities to choose a school. It is also advisable to develop concession mechanisms to attract private investors to manage schools.

Students will be given access to lessons from the best teachers using distance education technologies, including as part of additional education. This is especially important for small schools, for remote schools, and for the Russian provinces in general.

The key mechanisms for implementing the initiative should be both project and program methods of work. The activities will be carried out within the framework of the priority national project “Education”, the Federal Target Program for the Development of Education and the Federal Target Program Scientific and Scientific-Pedagogical Personnel of Innovative Russia.

The well-being of our children, grandchildren, and all future generations depends on how school reality is structured, what the system of relations between school and society will be, and how intellectual and modern we can make general education. That is why the “Our New School” initiative should become a matter for our entire society.

The national educational initiative “Our New School” was approved by the President of the Russian Federation

School of the future

What characteristics should a school have in the 21st century?

The new school is a center of interaction both with parents and the local community, as well as with cultural, healthcare, sports, leisure institutions, and other social organizations.

Schools as leisure centers will be open on weekdays and Sundays, and school holidays, concerts, performances, and sporting events will be places for family recreation. The new school has modern infrastructure.
Schools will become modern buildings - the schools of our dreams, with original architectural and design solutions, with good and functional school architecture, a canteen with tasty and healthy food, a media library and library, high-tech educational equipment, broadband Internet, competent textbooks and interactive teaching aids, conditions for sports and creativity. The new school is a modern system for assessing the quality of education, which should provide us with reliable information about how individual educational institutions and the education system as a whole work.

Main directions of development of general education

1. Transition to new educational standards

The school must create personnel, material, technical and other conditions that ensure the development of educational infrastructure in accordance with the requirements of the time. Financial support will be based on the principles of normative per capita financing (“money follows the student”), the transition to which is planned to be completed in all constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the next three years. At the same time, funds will flow to both municipalities and each school according to the standard, regardless of the form of ownership.
For work on standards to be effective, it is necessary to develop a system for assessing the quality of education. An independent assessment of schoolchildren’s knowledge is needed, including during their transition from 4th to 5th grade and from 9th to 10th grade. Mechanisms for independent assessment can be created by professional pedagogical unions and associations. Russia will continue to participate in international comparative studies of the quality of education and create methods for comparing the quality of education in various municipalities and regions.

Already in 2010, we will introduce new requirements for the quality of education, expanding the list of documents characterizing the success of each student. The Unified State Exam should remain the main, but not the only way to check the quality of education. In addition, monitoring and comprehensive assessment of the student’s academic achievements, competencies and abilities will be introduced. Training programs for high school students will be linked to their further choice of specialty.

2. Development of a support system for talented children

In the coming years, Russia will build an extensive system of searching, supporting and accompanying talented children.

It is necessary to develop a creative environment to identify especially gifted children in every secondary school. High school students should be given the opportunity to study in correspondence, part-time and distance learning schools, allowing them to master specialized training programs, regardless of their place of residence. It is necessary to develop a system of Olympiads and competitions for schoolchildren, the practice of additional education, and work out mechanisms for taking into account the individual achievements of students when admitting them to universities.

At the same time, it is necessary to develop a support system for mature, talented children. These are primarily educational institutions with round-the-clock attendance. It is necessary to disseminate the existing experience in the activities of physics and mathematics schools and boarding schools at a number of Russian universities. For children who have demonstrated their talents in various fields of activity, rallies, summer and winter schools, conferences, seminars and other events will be organized to support their talent.

3. Improving the teaching staff

It is necessary to introduce a system of moral and material incentives to support domestic teachers. And the main thing is to attract young talented people to the teaching profession.

The system of moral support is the already established competitions for teachers (“Teacher of the Year”, “Educate a Person”, “I Give My Heart to Children”, etc.), a large-scale and effective mechanism for supporting the best teachers within the framework of the priority national project “Education”. This practice will expand at the level of constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The activities that are planned to be held in connection with the announcement of 2010 in Russia as the Year of the Teacher will contribute to increasing the prestige of the profession.

The material support system is not only a further increase in wage funds, but also the creation of a wage mechanism that will stimulate the best teachers, regardless of their work experience, and therefore attract young teachers to the school. As the experience of regional pilot projects shows, salaries can and should depend on the quality and results of teaching activities, assessed with the participation of school councils, and a complex of modern financial and economic mechanisms actually leads to an increase in teachers’ salaries. Work on introducing new remuneration systems should also be completed in all constituent entities of the Russian Federation over the next three years.

A separate task is to attract teachers to the school who do not have basic pedagogical education. Having undergone psychological and pedagogical training and mastered new educational technologies, they will be able to demonstrate to children - primarily high school students who have chosen a major of study - their rich professional experience.

4. Changing school infrastructure

Small and medium-sized enterprises can undertake maintenance of school infrastructure on a competitive basis. This applies primarily to the organization of school meals, public services, repair and construction work. We will demand from builders and service organizations to strictly ensure the safety of school buildings - classes should not be allowed to be held in emergency, dilapidated, adapted premises that pose a threat to the life and health of children. Another requirement is to introduce modern design solutions that provide a comfortable school environment. The architecture of the school space should allow for the effective organization of project activities, classes in small groups, and a variety of forms of work with children.

5. Preserving and strengthening the health of schoolchildren

Balanced hot meals, medical care, including timely medical examination, sports activities, including extracurricular activities, implementation of preventive programs, discussion with children about healthy lifestyle issues - all this will influence the improvement of their health. In addition, a transition must be made from mandatory activities for all to individual health development programs for schoolchildren. In 2010, a new standard for physical education will be introduced - at least three hours a week, taking into account the individual characteristics of children.

It is an individual approach that involves the use of modern educational technologies and the creation of educational programs that will arouse a child’s interest in learning. The practice of individual education taking into account age characteristics, studying elective subjects, and a general reduction in classroom load in the form of classical training sessions will have a positive impact on the health of schoolchildren. But not only measures from adults are needed here. It is much more important to awaken in children the desire to take care of their health, based on their interest in learning, choosing courses that are adequate to their individual interests and inclinations. A rich, interesting and exciting school life will be the most important condition for preserving and strengthening their health.

6. Expanding the independence of schools

Equality between public and private educational institutions will be legislated, providing families with greater opportunities to choose a school. It is also advisable to develop concession mechanisms to attract private investors to manage schools.

The key mechanisms for implementing the initiative should be both project and program methods of work. The activities will be carried out within the framework of the priority national project “Education”, the Federal Target Program for the Development of Education and the Federal Target Program “Scientific and Scientific-Pedagogical Personnel of Innovative Russia”.

"Our new school" - website of the national program

Monitoring of the implementation of the NOI NNS is carried out on the basis of State Contract No. 03.007.11.0014 dated May 18, 2012, concluded with the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, for the implementation of the work “Monitoring the achievement of strategic guidelines stated in the national educational initiative “Our New School” NP-5 ( NNSh)"

The purpose of the monitoring is to determine the effectiveness of the implementation of the main directions of the National Educational Initiative "Our New School"

Information collection period: from 2010 to 2015

Objects of monitoring: · general information about the education system, transition to new educational standards, development of a support system for talented children, improvement of the teaching staff, changes in school infrastructure, preservation and strengthening of student health, development of school independence.
Information on the progress of the educational system modernization program is available on the website http://www.kpmo.ru/. Comparative data of electronic monitoring for federal districts. Database of websites of educational institutions.

National educational initiative “OUR NEW SCHOOL”
I APPROVED
President of Russian Federation
D.Medvedev
February 04, 2010
Pr-271

National Education Initiative
"Our new school"
Modernization and innovative development are the only way that will allow Russia to become a competitive society in the world of the 21st century and provide a decent life for all our citizens. In the context of solving these strategic problems, the most important personality qualities are initiative, the ability to think creatively and find innovative solutions, the ability to choose a professional path, and the willingness to learn throughout life. All these skills are formed from childhood.
School is a critical element in this process. The main tasks of a modern school are to reveal the abilities of each student, to educate a decent and patriotic person, an individual ready for life in a high-tech, competitive world. School education should be structured so that graduates can independently set and achieve serious goals and skillfully respond to different life situations.
School of the future
What characteristics should a school have in the 21st century?
The new school is an institution that meets the goals of advanced development. The school will provide study not only of the achievements of the past, but also of technologies that will be useful in the future. Children will be involved in research projects and creative activities to learn to invent, understand and master new things, express their own thoughts, make decisions and help each other, formulate interests and recognize opportunities.
The new school is a school for everyone. Any school will ensure the successful socialization of children with disabilities, children with disabilities, children without parental care, and in difficult life situations. The age characteristics of schoolchildren will be taken into account; education will be organized differently at the primary, basic and senior levels.
A new school means new teachers, open to everything new, who understand child psychology and the developmental characteristics of schoolchildren, and who know their subject well. The teacher’s task is to help children find themselves in the future, become independent, creative and self-confident people. Sensitive, attentive and receptive to the interests of schoolchildren, open to everything new, teachers are a key feature of the school of the future. In such a school, the role of the director will change, his degree of freedom and level of responsibility will increase.
The new school is a center of interaction both with parents and the local community, as well as with cultural, healthcare, sports, leisure institutions, and other social organizations. Schools as leisure centers will be open on weekdays and Sundays, and school holidays, concerts, performances, and sporting events will be places for family recreation.
The new school has modern infrastructure. Schools will become modern buildings - the schools of our dreams, with original architectural and design solutions, with good and functional school architecture - a canteen with tasty and healthy food, a media library and library, high-tech educational equipment, broadband Internet, competent textbooks and interactive teaching aids, conditions for sports and creativity.
The new school is a modern system for assessing the quality of education, which should provide us with reliable information about how individual educational institutions and the education system as a whole work.
Main directions of development of general education
1. Transition to new educational standards
From standards containing a detailed list of topics in each subject that are mandatory for every student to study, a transition will be made to new standards - requirements about what school programs should be, what results children should demonstrate, what conditions should be created in school to achieve these results.
In any educational program there will be two parts: compulsory and the one that is formed by the school. The higher the level, the more choices there are. The new standard provides for extracurricular activities - clubs, sports sections, various kinds of creative activities.
The result of education is not only knowledge in specific disciplines, but also the ability to apply it in everyday life and use it in further education. The student must have a holistic, socially oriented view of the world in its unity and diversity of nature, peoples, cultures, and religions. This is possible only as a result of combining the efforts of teachers of different subjects.
The school must create personnel, material, technical and other conditions that ensure the development of educational infrastructure in accordance with the requirements of the time. Financial support will be based on the principles of normative per capita financing (“money follows the student”), the transition to which is planned to be completed in all constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the next three years. At the same time, funds will flow to both municipalities and each school according to the standard, regardless of the form of ownership.
For work on standards to be effective, it is necessary to develop a system for assessing the quality of education. An independent assessment of schoolchildren’s knowledge is needed, including during their transition from 4th to 5th grade and from 9th to 10th grade. Mechanisms for independent assessment can be created by professional pedagogical unions and associations. Russia will continue to participate in international comparative studies of the quality of education and create methods for comparing the quality of education in various municipalities and regions.
Already in 2010, we will introduce new requirements for the quality of education, expanding the list of documents characterizing the success of each student. The Unified State Exam should remain the main, but not the only way to check the quality of education. In addition, we will introduce monitoring and comprehensive assessment of a student’s academic achievements, competencies and abilities. Training programs for high school students will be linked to their further choice of specialty.
2. Development of a support system for talented children
In the coming years, Russia will build an extensive system of searching, supporting and accompanying talented children.
It is necessary to develop a creative environment to identify especially gifted children in every secondary school. High school students should be given the opportunity to study in correspondence, part-time and distance learning schools, allowing them to master specialized training programs, regardless of their place of residence. It is necessary to develop a system of Olympiads and competitions for schoolchildren, the practice of additional education, and work out mechanisms for taking into account individual achievements of students when admitting them to universities.
At the same time, it is necessary to develop a support system for mature, talented children. These are, first of all, educational institutions with round-the-clock attendance. It is necessary to disseminate the existing experience in the activities of physics and mathematics schools and boarding schools at a number of Russian universities. For children who have demonstrated their talents in various fields of activity, rallies, summer and winter schools, conferences, seminars and other events will be organized to support their talent.
Working with gifted children must be economically feasible. The per capita funding standard should be determined in accordance with the characteristics of schoolchildren, and not just the educational institution. A teacher who has helped a student achieve high results should receive significant incentive payments.
3. Improving the teaching staff
It is necessary to introduce a system of moral and material incentives to support domestic teachers. And the main thing is to attract young talented people to the teaching profession.
The system of moral support consists of already established competitions for teachers (“Teacher of the Year”, “Educate a Person”, “I Give My Heart to Children”, etc.), a large-scale and effective mechanism for supporting the best teachers within the framework of the priority national project “Education”. This practice will expand at the level of constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The events planned in connection with the announcement of 2010 in Russia as the Year of the Teacher will contribute to increasing the prestige of the profession.
The material support system is not only a further increase in wage funds, but also the creation of a wage mechanism that will stimulate the best teachers, regardless of their work experience, and therefore attract young teachers to the school. As the experience of regional pilot projects shows, salaries can and should depend on the quality and results of teaching activities, assessed with the participation of school councils, and a complex of modern financial and economic mechanisms actually leads to an increase in teachers’ salaries. Work on introducing new wage systems should also be completed in all constituent entities of the Russian Federation over the next three years.
Another incentive should be the certification of teaching and management personnel - periodic confirmation of the teacher’s qualifications and their compliance with the tasks facing the school. The qualification requirements and qualification characteristics of teachers have been fundamentally updated; professional pedagogical competencies occupy a central place in them. There should be no bureaucratic obstacles for teachers, including young ones, who want to confirm a high level of qualifications before the established deadlines.
The system of teacher education needs to be seriously modernized. Pedagogical universities should be gradually transformed either into large basic centers for teacher training or into faculties of classical universities.
At least once every five years, teachers and school principals improve their qualifications. The corresponding programs should be flexibly changed depending on the interests of teachers, and therefore on the educational needs of children. Funds for advanced training should also be provided to school staff on the principles of per capita financing, so that teachers can choose both programs and educational institutions, including not only institutes for advanced training, but also, for example, pedagogical and classical universities. It is necessary to create data banks of organizations offering relevant educational programs in the regions. At the same time, directors and the best teachers should have the opportunity to study in other regions in order to have an idea of the innovative experience of their neighbors.
The experience of the best teachers should be disseminated in the system of teacher education, retraining and advanced training. Pedagogical practice of students of specialized universities and internships of existing teachers should take place on the basis of schools that have successfully implemented their innovative programs, primarily within the framework of the priority national project “Education”.
A separate task is to attract teachers to schools who do not have basic pedagogical education. Having undergone psychological and pedagogical training and mastered new educational technologies, they will be able to demonstrate to children, primarily high school students who have chosen a major, their rich professional experience.
4. Changing school infrastructure
The appearance of schools must change significantly. We will get real results if the school becomes a center of creativity and information, rich intellectual and sports life. Every educational institution must create a universal barrier-free environment to ensure the full integration of children with disabilities. In 2010, a five-year state program “Accessible Environment” will be adopted, aimed at solving this problem.
With the help of an architectural competition, new projects for the construction and reconstruction of school buildings will be selected, which will begin to be used everywhere from 2011: it is necessary to design a “smart”, modern building.
It is necessary to update the standards for the design and construction of school buildings and structures, sanitary rules and nutritional standards, requirements for the organization of medical care for students and for ensuring school safety. Heating and air conditioning systems in buildings must provide the required temperature at all times of the year. Schools must be provided with drinking water and showers. Rural schools need to develop effective student transportation mechanisms, including requirements for school buses.
Small and medium-sized enterprises can undertake maintenance of school infrastructure on a competitive basis. This applies, first of all, to the organization of school meals, public services, repair and construction work. We will demand from builders and service organizations to strictly ensure the safety of school buildings - classes should not be allowed to be held in emergency, dilapidated, adapted premises that pose a threat to the life and health of children. Another requirement is to introduce modern design solutions that provide a comfortable school environment. The architecture of the school space should allow for the effective organization of project activities, classes in small groups, and a variety of forms of work with children.
5. Preserving and strengthening the health of schoolchildren
Children spend a significant part of the day at school, and preserving and strengthening their physical and mental health is a matter not only of the family, but also of teachers. A person’s health is an important indicator of his personal success. If young people develop the habit of playing sports, such acute problems as drug addiction, alcoholism, and child neglect will be solved.
Balanced hot meals, medical care, including timely medical examination, sports activities, including extracurricular ones, implementation of preventive programs, discussion with children about healthy lifestyle issues - all this will influence the improvement of their health. In addition, a transition must be made from mandatory activities for all to individual health development programs for schoolchildren. In 2010, a new standard for physical education will be introduced - at least three hours a week, taking into account the individual characteristics of children.
It is an individual approach that involves the use of modern educational technologies and the creation of educational programs that will arouse a child’s interest in learning. The practice of individual education taking into account age characteristics, studying elective subjects, and a general reduction in classroom load in the form of classical training sessions will have a positive impact on the health of schoolchildren. But not only measures from adults are needed here. It is much more important to awaken in children a desire to take care of their health, based on their interest in learning, choosing courses that are adequate to their individual interests and inclinations. A rich, interesting and exciting school life will become the most important condition for maintaining and strengthening health.
6. Expanding the independence of schools
The school must become more independent both in drawing up individual educational programs and in spending financial resources. Since 2010, schools that have won competitions in the priority national project “Education” and schools that have been transformed into autonomous institutions will receive independence. Required reporting by such schools will be sharply reduced in exchange for open information about their performance. Contracts will be concluded with their directors providing for special working conditions taking into account the quality of work.
We will legislate equality between public and private educational institutions, providing families with greater opportunities to choose a school. It is also advisable to develop concession mechanisms to attract private investors to manage schools.
Students will be given access to lessons from the best teachers using distance education technologies, including as part of additional education. This is especially important for small schools, for remote schools, and for the Russian provinces in general.
The key mechanisms for implementing the initiative should be both project and program methods of work. The activities will be carried out within the framework of the priority national project “Education”, the Federal Target Program for the Development of Education and the Federal Target Program Scientific and Scientific-Pedagogical Personnel of Innovative Russia.
The well-being of our children, grandchildren, and all future generations depends on how school reality is structured, what the system of relations between school and society will be, and how intellectual and modern we can make general education. That is why the “Our New School” initiative should become a matter for our entire society.

The national educational initiative "Our New School" was proposed by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in his annual Address to the Federal Assembly on November 5, 2008. The project was developed with the participation of the Russian Ministry of Health and Social Development, the Ministry of Economic Development, and the Ministry of Finance. Participants in complex education modernization projects, winners of the competitive selection of the priority national project “Education” and expert communities contributed to the preparation. story

According to Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian school development program should include five main areas: 1. Updating educational standards; 2. Support system for talented children; 3. Development of teacher potential; 4. Development of school infrastructure; 5. Health of schoolchildren

The first direction is updating educational standards. The Law “On Education” has changed the fundamental design of educational standards. The standard has become focused on competencies, on knowledge and the ability to apply it, that is, on everything that children must master during the school curriculum at different levels of education.

The second direction is a system of supporting talented children. Supporting those children who have already shown their talents and creating a common creative environment in educational institutions. This is planned to be done through the creation of an appropriate system of competitions, support for educational institutions, correspondence and part-time schools where talented children study. It is also expected to work on the direction of schoolchildren’s portfolios so that universities, when admitting applicants, can count the children’s results as part of the overall set of their achievements.

The third direction is the development of teacher potential. This direction is consistent with the trends that we see in global attempts to reform the general education system: key changes occur when the teacher changes. The main positive results occur when teacher potential grows.

The fourth direction is the development of school infrastructure. This includes not only the building itself, but also libraries, gyms, catering, technical support, and so on. In addition, the standards of school infrastructure themselves must change. School needs are so varied that it is impossible to meet them with standard school buildings. The Ministry of Regional Development has now developed building codes and regulations (SNiP) for public buildings and structures. It presents the requirements for individual modules of these buildings and structures: libraries, gyms, clubs. Projects for educational institutions can be created from different modules.

The fifth direction is the health of schoolchildren. This direction includes both a certain protective function in relation to school health and the involvement of children with different health conditions in the educational process. And the second important aspect is the presence of an individual approach and individual educational programs in schools. This is a very important area of work, which shows that if children are interested in school, then they get sick less.

“We have provided for the provisions of the initiative within the framework of the concept of the Federal Target Program for the Development of Education for the years, which we are now coordinating with various departments, as well as within the framework of the activities of the national project since 2010. Within the framework of the national project and the federal target program, more than tens of billions of rubles from various budgets of the education system may be additionally allocated for implementation.” Igor REMORENKO, Director of the Department of State Policy in Education of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation

I APPROVED
President of Russian Federation
D.Medvedev
February 4, 2010 N Pr-271

National educational initiative "Our new school"

Modernization and innovative development are the only way that will allow Russia to become a competitive society in the world of the 21st century and provide a decent life for all our citizens. In the context of solving these strategic problems, the most important personality qualities are initiative, the ability to think creatively and find innovative solutions, the ability to choose a professional path, and the willingness to learn throughout life. All these skills are formed from childhood.

School is a critical element in this process. The main tasks of a modern school are to reveal the abilities of each student, to educate a decent and patriotic person, an individual ready for life in a high-tech, competitive world. School education should be structured so that graduates can independently set and achieve serious goals and skillfully respond to different life situations.

School of the future

What characteristics should a school have in the 21st century?

The new school is an institution that meets the goals of advanced development. The school will provide study not only of the achievements of the past, but also of technologies that will be useful in the future. Children will be involved in research projects and creative activities to learn to invent, understand and master new things, express their own thoughts, make decisions and help each other, formulate interests and recognize opportunities.

The new school is a school for everyone. Any school will ensure the successful socialization of children with disabilities, children with disabilities, children without parental care, and in difficult life situations. The age characteristics of schoolchildren will be taken into account; education will be organized differently at the primary, basic and senior levels.

A new school means new teachers, open to everything new, who understand child psychology and the developmental characteristics of schoolchildren, and who know their subject well. The teacher’s task is to help children find themselves in the future, become independent, creative and self-confident people. Sensitive, attentive and receptive to the interests of schoolchildren, open to everything new, teachers are a key feature of the school of the future. In such a school, the role of the director will change, his degree of freedom and level of responsibility will increase.

The new school is a center of interaction both with parents and the local community, as well as with cultural, healthcare, sports, leisure institutions, and other social organizations. Schools as leisure centers will be open on weekdays and Sundays, and school holidays, concerts, performances, and sporting events will become places for family recreation.

The new school has modern infrastructure. Schools will become modern buildings - the schools of our dreams with original architectural and design solutions, with good and functional school architecture: a canteen with tasty and healthy food, a media library and library, high-tech educational equipment, broadband Internet, competent textbooks and interactive teaching aids, conditions for classes sports and creativity.

The new school is a modern system for assessing the quality of education, which should provide us with reliable information about how individual educational institutions and the education system as a whole work.

Main directions of development of general education

1. Transition to new educational standards

From standards containing a detailed list of topics in each subject that are mandatory for every student to study, a transition will be made to new standards - requirements for what school programs should be, what results children should demonstrate, what conditions should be created in school to achieve these results.

In any educational program there will be two parts: compulsory and the one that is formed by the school. The higher the level, the more choices there are. The new standard provides for extracurricular activities: clubs, sports sections, various kinds of creative activities.

The result of education is not only knowledge in specific disciplines, but also the ability to apply it in everyday life and use it in further education. The student must have a holistic, socially oriented view of the world in its unity and diversity of nature, peoples, cultures, and religions. This is possible only as a result of combining the efforts of teachers of different subjects.

The school must create personnel, material, technical and other conditions that ensure the development of educational infrastructure in accordance with the requirements of the time. Financial support will be based on the principles of normative per capita financing (“money follows the student”), the transition to which is planned to be completed in all constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the next three years. At the same time, funds will flow to both municipalities and each school according to the standard, regardless of the form of ownership.

For work on standards to be effective, it is necessary to develop a system for assessing the quality of education. An independent assessment of schoolchildren’s knowledge is needed, including during their transition from 4th to 5th grade and from 9th to 10th grade. Mechanisms for independent assessment can be created by professional pedagogical unions and associations. Russia will continue to participate in international comparative studies of the quality of education and create methods for comparing the quality of education in various municipalities and regions.

Already in 2010, we will introduce new requirements for the quality of education, expanding the list of documents characterizing the success of each student. The Unified State Exam should remain the main, but not the only way to check the quality of education. In addition, we will introduce monitoring and comprehensive assessment of the student’s academic achievements, competencies and abilities. Training programs for high school students will be linked to their further choice of specialty.

2. Development of a support system for talented children

In the coming years, Russia will build an extensive system of searching, supporting and accompanying talented children.

It is necessary to develop a creative environment to identify especially gifted children in every secondary school. High school students should be given the opportunity to study in correspondence, part-time and distance learning schools, allowing them to master specialized training programs, regardless of their place of residence. It is necessary to develop a system of Olympiads and competitions for schoolchildren, the practice of additional education, and work out mechanisms for taking into account individual achievements of students when admitting them to universities.

At the same time, it is necessary to develop a support system for mature, talented children. These are primarily educational institutions with round-the-clock attendance. It is necessary to disseminate the existing experience in the activities of physics and mathematics schools and boarding schools at a number of Russian universities. For children who have demonstrated their talents in various fields of activity, rallies, summer and winter schools, conferences, seminars and other events will be organized to support their talent.

Working with gifted children must be economically feasible. The per capita funding standard should be determined in accordance with the characteristics of schoolchildren, and not just the educational institution. A teacher who has helped a student achieve high results should receive significant incentive payments.

3. Improving the teaching staff

It is necessary to introduce a system of moral and material incentives to support domestic teachers. And the main thing is to attract young talented people to the teaching profession.

The system of moral support is the already established competitions for teachers ("Teacher of the Year", "Educate a Person", "I Give My Heart to Children", etc.), a large-scale and effective mechanism for supporting the best teachers within the framework of the priority national project "Education". This practice will expand at the level of constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The activities that are planned to be held in connection with the announcement of 2010 in Russia as the Year of the Teacher will contribute to increasing the prestige of the profession.

The material support system is not only a further increase in wage funds, but also the creation of a wage mechanism that will stimulate the best teachers, regardless of their work experience, and therefore attract young teachers to the school. As the experience of regional pilot projects shows, salaries can and should depend on the quality and results of teaching activities, assessed with the participation of school councils, and a complex of modern financial and economic mechanisms actually leads to an increase in teachers’ salaries. Work on introducing new remuneration systems should also be completed in all constituent entities of the Russian Federation within the next three years.

Another incentive should be the certification of teaching and management personnel - periodic confirmation of the teacher’s qualifications and their compliance with the tasks facing the school. The qualification requirements and qualification characteristics of teachers have been fundamentally updated; professional pedagogical competencies occupy a central place in them. There should be no bureaucratic obstacles for teachers, including young ones, who want to confirm a high level of qualifications before the established deadlines.

The system of teacher education needs to be seriously modernized. Pedagogical universities should be gradually transformed either into large basic centers for teacher training or into faculties of classical universities.

At least once every five years, teachers and school principals improve their qualifications. The corresponding programs should be flexibly changed depending on the interests of teachers, and therefore on the educational needs of children. Funds for advanced training should also be provided to school staff on the principles of per capita financing, so that teachers can choose both programs and educational institutions, including not only institutes for advanced training, but also, for example, pedagogical and classical universities. It is necessary to create data banks of organizations offering relevant educational programs in the regions. At the same time, directors and the best teachers should have the opportunity to study in other regions in order to have an idea of the innovative experience of their neighbors.

The experience of the best teachers should be disseminated in the system of teacher education, retraining and advanced training. Pedagogical practice of students of specialized universities and internships of existing teachers should take place on the basis of schools that have successfully implemented their innovative programs, primarily within the framework of the priority national project “Education”.

A separate task is to attract teachers to the school who do not have basic pedagogical education. Having undergone psychological and pedagogical training and mastered new educational technologies, they will be able to demonstrate to children - primarily high school students who have chosen a major of study - their rich professional experience.

4. Changing school infrastructure

The appearance of schools must change significantly. We will get real results if the school becomes a center of creativity and information, rich intellectual and sports life. Every educational institution must create a universal barrier-free environment to ensure the full integration of children with disabilities. In 2010, a five-year state program “Accessible Environment” will be adopted, aimed at solving this problem.

With the help of an architectural competition, new projects for the construction and reconstruction of school buildings will be selected, which will begin to be used everywhere from 2011: it is necessary to design a “smart”, modern building.

It is necessary to update the standards for the design and construction of school buildings and structures, sanitary rules and nutritional standards, requirements for the organization of medical care for students and for ensuring school safety. Heating and air conditioning systems in buildings must provide the required temperature at all times of the year. Schools must be provided with drinking water and showers. Rural schools need to develop effective student transportation mechanisms, including requirements for school buses.

Small and medium-sized enterprises can undertake maintenance of school infrastructure on a competitive basis. This applies primarily to the organization of school meals, public services, repair and construction work. We will demand from builders and service organizations to strictly ensure the safety of school buildings - classes should not be allowed to be held in emergency, dilapidated, adapted premises that pose a threat to the life and health of children. Another requirement is to introduce modern design solutions that provide a comfortable school environment. The architecture of the school space should allow for the effective organization of project activities, classes in small groups, and a variety of forms of work with children.

5. Preserving and strengthening the health of schoolchildren

Children spend a significant part of the day at school, and preserving and strengthening their physical and mental health is a matter not only of the family, but also of teachers. A person's health is an important indicator of his personal success. If young people develop the habit of playing sports, such acute problems as drug addiction, alcoholism, and child neglect will be solved.

Balanced hot meals, medical care, including timely medical examination, sports activities, including extracurricular ones, implementation of preventive programs, discussion with children about healthy lifestyle issues - all this will influence the improvement of their health. In addition, a transition must be made from mandatory activities for all to individual health development programs for schoolchildren. In 2010, a new standard for physical education will be introduced - at least three hours a week, taking into account the individual characteristics of children.

It is an individual approach that involves the use of modern educational technologies and the creation of educational programs that will arouse a child’s interest in learning. The practice of individual education taking into account age characteristics, studying elective subjects, and a general reduction in classroom load in the form of classical training sessions will have a positive impact on the health of schoolchildren. But not only measures from adults are needed here. It is much more important to awaken in children a desire to take care of their health, based on their interest in learning, choosing courses that are adequate to their individual interests and inclinations. A rich, interesting and exciting school life will become the most important condition for maintaining and strengthening health.

6. Expanding the independence of schools

The school must become more independent both in drawing up individual educational programs and in spending financial resources. Since 2010, schools that have won competitions in the priority national project “Education” and schools that have been transformed into autonomous institutions will receive independence. Required reporting by such schools will be sharply reduced in exchange for open information about performance. Contracts will be concluded with their directors providing for special working conditions taking into account the quality of work.

We will legislate equality between public and private educational institutions, providing families with greater opportunities to choose a school. It is also advisable to develop concession mechanisms to attract private investors to manage schools.

Students will be given access to lessons from the best teachers using distance education technologies, including as part of additional education. This is especially important for small schools, for remote schools, and for the Russian provinces in general.

The key mechanisms for implementing the initiative should be both project and program methods of work. The activities will be carried out within the framework of the priority national project "Education", the Federal Target Program for the Development of Education for 2006-2010 and the federal target program "Scientific and Scientific-Pedagogical Personnel of Innovative Russia" for 2009-2013.

The well-being of our children, grandchildren, and all future generations depends on how school reality is structured, what the system of relations between school and society will be, and how intellectual and modern we can make general education. That is why the “Our New School” initiative should become a matter for our entire society.

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N 9, March 2010