Keyword: «general education»

The author reveals the question of mobilization of Soviet people in Stavropol on Volga on fight against fas-cists. All people rallied in readiness to enter the Red Army or national militia. Men, woman, children and old men of all professions, age, nationalities got up in ranks of the armed defenders of the Fatherland from the first days of the Great Patriotic War.

The paper describes possible ways of using pedagogical system of continuous formation of creative thinking and creativity development of students using the theory of inventive problem solving in schools. The paper proposes the introduction into the curriculum of integrative course on the methodology of creativity “foundations of creative, interdisciplinary activity” as a discipline formed by the participants of educational process, and update the content of the required disciplines through the use of instruments of methodology of creativity.

In the context of the transition to the new edition of the federal state educational standard of basic general education, great attention is paid to the introduction of alternative forms of assessing the planned results of carrying out the basic educational program. One of the innovative methods of pedagogical measurements is the technology of formative assessment, which, having appeared abroad in the last decade of the twentieth century, recently has been used in the practice of Russian school education. The purpose of this article is to describe the origin, conceptual principles and key strategies of formative assessment used by Russian and foreign teachers, as well as to identify the specifics and pedagogical features of the use of formative assessment methods in the lessons of science education cycle - chemistry, physics, biology. The article discusses the advantages of formative assessment in comparison with the traditional system of final (summative) assessment. The current problems and barriers that impede the widespread adoption of formative assessment in the school system are analyzed. The authors worked out a classification of formative assessment methods and techniques used in basic school on the basis of modern Russian- and English-language scientific and pedagogical sources analysis, and described diverse didactic potential of formative assessment. By analyzing the results of a survey of teachers working in schools of Rostov-on-Don, they found the attitude of subject teachers to the technology of formative assessment. The study makes a definite contribution to the modern theory of pedagogical measurements and reveals the prospects of formative assessment as a progressive method of pedagogical diagnostics that meets the needs and requirements of the information society, provides one of the key skills of the 21st century - the ability to learn. The prospects for further research on the subject under consideration are outlined. The article may be interesting to teachers of basic schools, students of pedagogical areas of training, methodologists, specialists in the field of pedagogical measurements and scientists in the field of education modernization.