First – child must be ready physically: in the first class take guys who have reached the age of six years and six months and have no contraindications for health. He should have developed enough fine motor skills, he can control his physiological needs and elementary take care of themselves. For example, is able to use Cutlery: spoon at school, no one will not feed.
the Second is psychological readiness. There are a lot of indicators. The child must be sufficiently developed attention, memory, thinking, imagination and speech. He should be able to behave appropriately in different situations, to make friends with peers, communicate with adults. And to understand why he needs to go to school.
– To assess the psychological readiness of the Network there are a huge number of rapid tests that parents can use on their own, – said the psychologist Anastasia Kuznetsova. – This screening will help fathers and mothers navigate, what “work” with the future first-grader, to easily adapt to the school.
and the third component of subject readiness. It is the ability to read, to distinguish sounds, syllables, words, sentences, to count and to solve simple problems, breadth of vision. That is, knowledge and skills, based on which is based the teaching of different subject areas.
– we Can say that physical and psychological readiness for future first-graders – “a mandatory program”, and subject availability – “arbitrary” – says the psychologist. – Because of the formation of the first two, the third case can be acquired quickly. But if on the contrary: the child and reads, and believes, and “Onegin” recite, and speak English, but small, weak, not able to communicate with their peers and voluntarily obey the school rules, high risk complex adaptation, frustration, loss of interest in learning.
Should the child know the word “need” and what if the word is not taught?
Know the word “must” – means to be able to relate their desires with the need to subject them to certain circumstances or rules. I want to watch cartoons, but you have to go to bed, I want to continue to play, but it is necessary to collect the toys, I want to shout out the answer, but you need to raise your hand and wait until you ask… the Essence of this skill in the conscious regulation of one’s own behavior in accordance with accepted standards, – says Anastasia Kuznetsova. In psychology this is called “randomness”, it is formed to seven years and is one of the key criteria of school readiness. If the first grade child has not learned to regulate his behavior, he will learn it, all while dealing with school system rules and regulations.
By the end of the first, nor�� class except that all the children will learn to count, read and write, they will need to be able to organize their workplace, to interact with teacher and classmates in the classroom, monitor their work, self-evaluate its results.
What it is not necessary to teach the child before the first class to the teacher then do not retrain?
– No need to buy textbooks and workbooks for first grade and “pass” the material in advance, – said Chairman of the Association of headteachers of Moscow Maxim Ivantsov. – There are many educational and learning games for preschoolers, which is enough. Any elementary school teacher will tell you that it is much more important that first-graders were developed speech, thinking and attention than the expense of thousands or fluent reading without understanding the meaning of what was read.
by the Way, some of the family desire to help their scholars even hire Tutors in the first class!
Is a strange phenomenon – says Maxim Ivantsov. – If a child is experiencing difficulties in the development of programs in the school are the skills and mechanisms that will help to determine the causes of those difficulties and eliminate them. The school has extracurricular activities, clubs that embody knowledge and skills, develop abilities. Therefore, a tutor in grade school is more of a fad, parental ambitions and a lack of awareness about the resources of the school than an objective necessity.
Parents are always concerned about how much time should be spent on homework?
– In first class no homework – says the Chairman of the Association of headteachers of Moscow Maxim Ivantsov. – The teacher can give the children individual tasks aimed at forming certain skills: to add a line in your notebook, make a note in the diary of weather observations, to take pictures of family walking in Park and so on. They are developmental, educative nature and take very not much time.
But in General, for homework in elementary school is not as important WHAT to do how to do.
– Here the necessary synchronicity: in school and at home. Therefore, the first and most important rule – constant contact with the class teacher. Any teacher of elementary school clearly emphases, what and how to do it at home with the kids. In the framework of this algorithm and we need to act, says Maxim Ivantsov.
“Everything will depend on the epidemiological situation, – told “RG” in the Federal service. – It is obvious that our ordinary lives have changed, and now many of the traditional forms of events are becoming the online format. Usually during school rulers, children are grouped by grade, and each group is located at a sufficient distance from other. If the weather and climate allow, rulers are held outdoors. In some schools, rulers for students in grades 1-4 are held separately from students of middle and high school. There is confidence that the school administration will cope with the task and will ensure the principles of social distancing when the events of September 1″.
