Maxim Yakovlevich, we all hope that on 1 September the children are back at their desks. How will it be?
Maxim Pratusevich: of Course, there will be security measures stipulated by the recommendations of the CPS. We already buy sanitizer, masks, gloves. I hope that the school year begins internally.
CPS recommends to dissolve at the time of the lessons to halve classes… is This doable?
Maxim Pratusevich: there are Problems. If conditionally to divide the classes in half, you’ll need to increase the number of teachers and their workload. This is quite a lot of money. But it’s the middle of June, we have another two and a half months ahead. I think by September, much has changed.
a few months distant school, in your opinion, is more gained or lost?
Maxim Pratusevich: other things being equal, distance education, of course, worse all the time. All teachers note: productivity is falling. You need to prepare more and manage less. I myself am lessons: I confirm. There are problems with feedback. Not always through the screen we’ve been able to grasp what the student doesn’t understand. When a child comes to school, we can as-to influence, to motivate. And if he did not go to the Internet for a lesson, where to fish?
According to research, about 80 percent of children with fragile motivation to study. And distance education is definitely not the assistant. Practical items don’t say is so clear. Lots of things in the distant simply did not translate.
But there is a silver lining. We have the experience. People got acquainted with the technology, with web conferences. The parents of our students, for example, really like this format: say, let’s continue meeting in Zoom to arrange.
Amendments to the law “On education in the Russian Federation” allowed the students to formally teach at the school. Take in a Lyceum youth?
Maxim Pratusevich: we Have the students work with heads of groups, teachers of additional education. I myself started working at the school on 3rd course: in April 1992, came into his 239-th Lyceum. In General, I am glad these amendments – were among those who from 2015, promoted. Teacher-student is often much better than the already “burned out” teacher with higher education.
Who will teach students? Elementary classes?
Maxim Pratusevich: This is misleading: once a little experience, let them teach kids. In fact, in many countries of the “pyramid” upside down: the most qualified people – kindergarten teachers and primary school teachers. The older the students the easier it is. In high school, to teach, quite a great knowledge of his subject, and in General adult intelligence. But in elementary school and even in the fifth grade need more. ��no not able to focus for more than ten minutes. Still not taught to learn, write slowly, every 5-7 minutes, they need to change the type of activity, to invent games and tasks. Preparation this lesson requires much more time, effort and experience. So if you take in a school students, most lessons in high school.
this year due to the coronavirus those graduates who do not go to University, will not have to pass the exam on the Russian and basic mathematics. The need of the exam on the Russian language in the future, few people will dispute, but whether there will be a mandatory exam in basic math?
Maxim Pratusevich: Historically, the Russian school has two pillars: language arts and math. Now everyone in the “number” and math comes to the fore. A good mathematical education is our competitive advantage as a country. To waste. In addition, the exam itself is instructive. For example, my mom knows and remembers that she was aware of the literature 50 years ago. Why? Because then it is every year passed the exam – these were the rules.
the Book “Starik Khottabych”, familiar to our generation since childhood, begins with a geography exam that takes the main character in the 8th grade. When I graduated from school, passed 10 exams – and nothing else. Exam results in order your head: you lay the material on the shelves. Remember that even in the besieged Leningrad in 1942, the math exam was written. School № 239 then was one of the few where the guys continued to study the basement of the building was sturdy and served as a bomb shelter. In our school Museum is a variant of the examination papers from June 22, 1942. There were only three, not five, as he wrote the rest of the country. But the examination which the children passed.
this year, of course, the situation of force majeure, and as a security measure, the abolition of the exam is valid.
the Postponement of the exam has caused many a panic. For the Director of the Lyceum this critical moment?
Maxim Pratusevich: the Current situation causes a lot of inconvenience. First, the exam must be a teacher. So, you will have to modify the vacation schedule, to shoot down people with rhythm. Second, in the summer school traditionally done every repair. And now the summer we have “tail” Aug. All this, of course, annoying. But you can survive. Just don’t want it to become a system.
go to udalenku by surprise. For students and teachers “fell” different educational resources and digital platforms. How did you solved this problem?
Maxim Pratusevich: In high school, there are distance education center, which is developing massive online courses. So overall, we were ready for distance. But I set a condition: the classes should be held in a single format videos��of inference and on the same platform. This role took over our school e-zine: there were jobs, links to lessons on some external resources, to the same children were sent home work. All other messengers, social network I order had banned because all this running in different chats only enhances the stress. Single window entry for all information for lessons – e-zine. Point.
But, of course, we need a single platform for distance learning in the country. I admit, strange to hear that its promise to develop and launch just over a month. Would need more serious testing. We at the Lyceum launched its e-magazine in 2006, received the 2014 award for best IT solution in education. And to go so far.
Your school – physics and mathematics. Probably the majority of graduates chooses this direction in the universities. What else is in fashion?
Maxim Pratusevich: If you look at the choice of the exam, you get a social science – the mass of the exam as well as Economics and educational science. Physics is also in the lead. And, of course, IT. However, here the situation, in my opinion, difficult: many are called, but few are chosen. A legendary Professor at ITMO Vladimir Parfenov once brought me the statistics: in top universities there are 4,000 places for the training of programmers at a high level. Thus children who come to the attention of as a result of the Olympics, not more than two thousand. It turns out that technical colleges are unable to recruit to the places where well-taught programmers, people who would do this came up.
Often say: teacher is a mission, a calling. Agree?
Maxim Pratusevich: we Have teachers half a million. One and a half million of the prophets and saints do not exist. The teacher is primarily just a job. Well, if someone it will become and the mission.
help “RG”
Students of Lyceum No. 239 in the last 20 years has won more than 50 medals of international competitions.
Competition for admission up to 12 people in the place.
In different years, the College has done: prove the poincaré conjecture mathematician Grigori Perelman, winner of prestigious awards as the fields medal, the mathematician Stanislav Smirnov, actress Alisa Freundlich, musician Boris Grebenshchikov.
