The question of what should be the school program and to whom it should be focused - on the "strong" students or "weak" - occupies a central place in Russia for the past, at least the last half century.All this time, the school education programs are mainly compiled with an emphasis on the student of average intelligence.
This approach to teaching is fraught with the fact that guys are more capable in a particular field of science, bored in the classroom and their development significantly inhibited.The children who have a lower capacity, in contrast, do not have time.Naturally, all of this affects the mental state of the child, his self-esteem and emotional balance.
therefore, has long been the idea that the school should be student-centered approach to learning.What kind of an approach that will help to find answers to the most complex educational issues?In a few words can be expressed as: student-centered learning - a way of organizing the school learning process so that the cornerstone was tasked to grow in the first place, person, and then running the installation directly on the criterion of education.
To give an opportunity to develop this process, which is based on the recognition of the individuality of each student, taking into account its specific characteristics and identity, requires new groups themselves - classes.Well, think for yourself: how can one teacher to work with students in the amount of 30 people active in implementing training and educational process of student-centered approach to learning?
How to manage with such a density of the class to pay attention to each person, to individual tasks, but still have time to check them?Of course, an experienced teacher will be able to organize the process of learning so that each student got it feasible task to master the skills and abilities going in steps, and the new knowledge clung like a ring chain, for already learned and enshrined.
Naturally, in order to bring this provision into practice, the teacher should have a document that reflects the personality of each child's learning outcomes.
Some schools have been made to the division of children into classes with regard to their abilities, first in such a trial version as seating children in different series: strong, medium and weak.This way of creating more convenience teacher when working with a team, it was easier to organize a student-centered approach to learning, as in this case, the whole team was divided into three smaller ones - to the group.Targets were prepared for each series separately grading system has also worked closely approaching the individual level of development of this or that student.
After all, if all the children "row with the same brush," some talented humanities and will remain for a second year on the subjects of the exact sciences.And the great mathematicians of the future will not be able to move to the next grade because of poor knowledge of Russian language.
However, children are very quickly "saw through" the system of such an organization, describing it as "labeling".The parents with their offspring were extremely outraged by such an innovation, because it is also degrading individual personalities.The division of students into classes with regard to their abilities as parents was greeted with hostility.Somehow openly about the shortcomings of the physical person, such as poor vision or heart disease, it is not considered to be humiliating for the personality.But talk about low abilities and learning any type of science is perceived as a real insult.Although this is also the physiological characteristics of the individual.
ideal would be an option, if the children are deeply studied only those items that would be useful to them later in life, and the rest for them would be secondary, not be evaluated, and for them only to "auditioned course."After all, every low score, for both adult and child to the more - is a strong blow to the ego, which is a very destructive effect on the psyche.But this method has a comprehensive system is only beginning to be discussed in some places.And our children are required to master the full course for all school subjects.
Still, the separation of children based on their preferences and psychological characteristics, their level of development is taking place in our education now.It occurs in specialized schools - high schools, classes, and programs which are formed so that the student-centered approach to learning allows teachers to organize the work to date, taking into account the individuality of every single person growing up.
