Differentiated education at mathematics lessons in general education class of secondary school

Abstract

The article is devoted to the solution of differentiated education problem at mathematics lessons in classes of general secondary school with the average number of thirty pupils in class. The relevance of the article is caused by the annual statistics of the state exams results confirming quite low level of pupils’ knowledge which prevents from achieving the main school purpose of preparing graduates being able to become the high-level up-to- date specialists. In this situation the problem of realization of differentiated education in general classes of secondary school seems to be important. The research mentioned in the article shows that the quality of teacher’s work is more important than the number of pupils in the class. It is noted that the appropriate choice of teaching methodology can improve the pupils’ knowledge under the conditions of limited resources of municipal general school. The term «differentiated education» means personally oriented approach which is based on the knowledge of each pupil’s personality and takes into consideration his or her individual features. The necessity of such approach is caused by the individual differences between pupils. The aim of the described methodology is to educate each of pupils according to the maximum level of his or her opportunities. The article suggests the option of individual education which provides the use of «intermediate» variant based on the division of pupils in the class in groups according to their abilities of learning new information. The realization of the proposed personally-oriented approach does not contradict to the main goal of the general education, which is to make every pupil learn the basic knowledge and skills of every subject and does not demand the school for additional resources. The article describes key stages of the realization of the proposed methodology such as the explanation of new information, the current theme tasks solving, daily monitoring and control. The description of the methodology is based on the personal practical experience of using this approach under the conditions of class-lesson’s system used in general school.