Priority orientations of designing the educational environment of a gymnasium

Abstract

The article is devoted to specifying the priority directions of designing the educational environment of a gymnasium, which in the context of the reform of secondary education gained importance. The authors founded that the design of the educational environment of ta school as a complex and dynamic process includes the following components: conceptual (identification of functions, components of the environment and criteria for determining its effectiveness), organizational management (elaboration of constituent documents, the preparation of teachers to use design and research technology in conditions of implementation of competence-based approach, the initiation and establishment of project groups), substantial (transformation of substantive and procedural characteristics of the educational process in accordance with the functional model of the educational environment of institutions of general secondary education), technological (information and communication ensuring of the educational process), methodological (introduction of project and research technologies in the educational process). The findings of the study proved that the changes that occur in the educational environment of institutions of general secondary education connected with reforming the content and structure of the training based on the competence approach. Under this circumstance, the development of a substantial component of the educational environment of the gymnasium will be determined by the processes of integration of learning content, process and organizational-managerial development of ICT learning tools and educational technologies that will contribute to the creation of network systems, and distance learning methodology – the active introduction of new learning technologies that can be used in a variety of forms of education, are especially popular among the actors of the educational process as satisfy their needs and interest. We are talking about the development of computer network technology, the technology “blended” and “flipped” learning, development of distance learning system, electronic learning (e-learning), mobile learning (m-learning). In the context of the reform of secondary education will determine the priority directions of designing of the educational environment of the school institution of secondary education that provides basic secondary education.