THE IMPORTANCE OF THE BASIC CURRICULUM FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS’ WORK: NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES

Abstract

The article emphasizes that since 1999 Poland has been using the core curriculum, which is a significant change in the organization of the education system and training planning in view of the reform changes associated with Poland’s accession to the European Community. This reform and other changes became the preconditions for Poland’s accession to the European Union in May 2004. By 2017, the core curriculum had been re-approved six times by the Ministry of Education. The EU regularly updates key competencies, which require rethinking, modernizing the national core curriculum and then the curricula of educational and didactic institutions. It is proved that taking into account the principle of individualization and the needs of students with specific educational needs. It is necessary to regularly update key competencies in the curriculum. An urgent issue is the substantiation of the teacher training concept. It is crucial to diagnose the tendencies needed to work with younger students, respond to changing demands of socio-cultural and economic development, take into account national characteristics, and update the content of education based on innovation. Since 2018, the issue of primary school teachers’ competencies formation that demonstrates the ability to systematic pedagogical activities, cooperation, production of innovations, and their use in the educational process has become relevant.