Russia (bbabo.net), - This academic year, media and entrepreneurship classes have opened in the capital's schools. They have 10th and 11th grade students. What do children learn in these and other pre-professional classes, why are they becoming more popular year, the correspondent found out.
In order to give children more time for self-determination, pre-professional classes are being opened in Moscow schools, in which schoolchildren can try themselves in different professions. Every year the range of areas of pre-professional classes and partner companies of schools is expanding. In order to interest children in entrepreneurship and the media industry, lecturers from leading universities and representatives of the business community are invited to pre-professional classes as teachers.
“The initiative to open these areas at school belongs to the students themselves,” Natalia Kiseleva, deputy head of the Moscow Department of Education and Science, told a correspondent. “Modern children do not divide life into real and virtual, they are interested in all aspects. Media literacy is an integral part of modern life. And entrepreneurial classes necessary because schoolchildren already have their own unique startup ideas.Our task is to provide children with a choice, options for courses where they can learn their future profession." According to the agency, media classes have opened in 66 schools. One and a half thousand high school students study in them. High school students learn the basics of journalism, modern media technologies, develop effective communication skills in foreign languages, and study social science. Well-known TV journalists and bloggers supervise these classes in many schools, sharing their experience, talking about the importance of professions, as well as about the applied aspects of the media industry. For example, how to distinguish fakes from news, how to navigate the Internet environment, analyze large amounts of information, identify malicious sites, and much more.
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Partnership with universities
According to Anna Tolokonnikova, Associate Professor of the Faculty of Journalism of Lomonosov Moscow State University, curator of the project "Mediaclass in Moscow School", interest in the project is growing. “We are constantly approached by new schools that want to open media classes. There are many times more such requests than there were at the start of the project,” she says. “We prepared programs together with the Moscow Department of Education and Science. In the first half of the year, schoolchildren did not have textbooks yet "But now we have completed work on them, and in the near future the textbooks will be available to children. Refresher courses on methods of teaching journalism at our faculty are now taking place for fifty school teachers. I was surprised, but among them there are not only specialists in the Russian language or literature come to learn how to teach in the media class, even primary school teachers!" Tolokonnikova is sure that after an in-depth study of specialized subjects, participation in university competitions, the guys will better understand their inclinations.A doctor of economic sciences, professor of the Russian University of Economics named after A.I. G.V. Plekhanova Olga Bykova, who supervises business classes. “Such classes are open in 44 schools of the city, about a thousand students study in them,” she says. “We have written programs for elective courses, our teachers conduct specialized classes. the opportunity to get acquainted in practice with the field of economics and entrepreneurship.This will allow us to get motivated and interested students, and in the future - successful representatives of this field of economics."
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Engineers, other doctors
In total, more than 50,000 students study in pre-professional classes in the capital, or about half of all high school students in the city. And the number of children is growing every year, for example, last year there were 5,000 fewer students in these classes. Cadet classes remain the most popular destination, with more than 26,000 teenagers studying there. Such classes are open in 261 schools. In second place in popularity are engineering classes, they were chosen by 10.5 thousand students in 152 schools. In third place are medical classes. They are represented in 97 schools, more than 6 thousand schoolchildren dream of becoming doctors. The fourth direction in demand is IT classes. This project involves 75 schools, more than 3.5 thousand students. More than two thousand people study in the new pedagogical classes opened in 47 schools.As Kristina Martynova, a student of the new pedagogical class of school No. 1492, said, her choice was influenced by the content of the educational program. "I really liked the training program. There are many subjects that are useful in everyday life," says the schoolgirl. "We study human psychology, social and legal courses, oratory."As noted in the Moscow Department of Education and Science, in order for theory to be supported by practice, high-tech equipment is at the disposal of high school students, for example, 3D printers and scanners, interactive simulators for practicing first aid skills, and digital laboratories.
As Maksim Tatarnikov, a graduate of school No. 1502 "Energia", said, it was the ability to use modern equipment that helped him in the competition of interdisciplinary skills and knowledge "Intellectual metropolis. Potential" at the end of the eleventh grade. “This exam is the final one for such classes, and if it is passed successfully, additional points are added to the Unified State Examination for admission to a university,” Maxim said. “I took engineering graphics in the AutoCAD program, and my classmates wrote programs to control the actions of robots. successfully performed at the competition, the extra points I received were enough to get into the budget department of the physics department of the Higher School of Economics."
Career in demanded professions
As the Department of Education and Science said, there are more cases when graduates of pre-professional classes receive not only additional points, but also a job. Graduates of medical and IT classes are popular with employers. As Ksenia Gladnikova, an English teacher and curator of pre-professional classes at school No. 1532, noted, they already have eleventh-graders - future employees of the company in Skolkovo, with whom they have concluded deferred employment contracts. "The guys showed themselves at city conferences and competitions, received invitations after graduation to come to work in the company to develop new composite materials," says Gladnikova. However, according to teachers, the conclusion of an employment contract is not an end in itself. The most important thing in pre-professional classes is to help the child decide on a future profession.As the curator of the academic class and teacher of computer science and physics at school No. 444 Roman Koltunov said, they had a case when a schoolboy who had dreamed of being a doctor since childhood, having entered the medical class, changed his mind: "I preferred a related discipline - biotechnology, and moved to engineering Class".
How to enter the pre-professional class
To enter the pre-professional classes, a ninth-grader needs to successfully pass the Main State Examination in Mathematics and the Russian Language and subjects corresponding to the direction of the chosen class. And also write a motivation letter, indicating why you chose this particular direction. The information in the student's individual portfolio is also taken into account: project activities, participation in competitions, sports achievements are collected in a virtual format on the platform of the Moscow Electronic School.By the way
All information about schools implementing projects of educational verticals and pre-professional education is posted on the portal www.profil.mos.ru.
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