Vitebsk region schools and kindergartens are implementing almost 70 innovative educational projects
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On November 18, Vitebsk /Sergey Kochetov - BELTA/. Educational institutions of the Vitebsk region are implementing almost 70 innovative projects aimed at developing new educational systems and technologies, including 20 national ones. Lyubov Vilenchik, a methodologist at the Department of Innovative Development of Educational Institutions of the Vitebsk Regional Institute for the Development of Education, informed a BELTA correspondent about this.
Innovative work in the educational sphere covers the system of preschool, general secondary, and special education, where over 160 experimental, innovative, and creative platforms for cultivating new educational practices have been created and are operating. For instance, the region is implementing the long-term projects "Ethnoschool" and "Ethnogarden," which involve creating a model of an educational institution that provides conditions for fostering individuals with a high level of national self-awareness. The ethnoschool model is being introduced into the practice of schools in Polotsk, Gluboksky, Liozno, Braslav, and Chashniki districts, as well as Novopolotsk Secondary School No. 5 and Kindergarten No. 72 in Vitebsk.
One of the important directions in the thematic focus of innovative projects is environmental education and the problem of human ecology, including the ecology of education. A number of institutions have decided to address such issues through the implementation of a system for organizing the activities of resource centers for comprehensive educational support for sustainable development (School No. 12 in Novopolotsk, School No. 16 in Orsha, and Gymnasium No. 4 in Vitebsk), as well as the pedagogical system "School of Ecological Culture" (Novka Secondary School of Vitebsk District, Chepukovo Secondary School of Miory District, Aleksinichi School of Senno District). Five preschool institutions have chosen models for the environmental education of young children and for fostering a culture of energy and resource conservation through cognitive and practical activities.
In addition, innovative models of individual development schools are being successfully implemented in the region. In total, innovative educators in the region have developed several dozen models aimed at realizing the individual potential of students, including such as "School of Personal Growth", "School of Agrotechnical Culture" and "School – Agro-town Centre", "School-Factory", etc. A number of innovative projects are related to the introduction of information and communication technologies into the educational process, the development of teachers' information culture, as well as the modernization of the information space of rural schools.
Over the past ten years, the emphasis on innovative activities has enabled the educational systems of cities and districts of the Vitebsk region to ensure systematic and consistent research work by creative pedagogical teams, problem groups and innovative educators, specialists noted. -0-
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