EDUCATIONAL INNOVATIONS, THEIR CHARACTERISTICS AND STAGES OF IMPLEMENTATION IN PRIMARY SCHOOL

Abstract

The article reveals and characterizes the essence and content of innovations in education, distinguishes between the concepts of “novelty”, “newness” and “innovation”, which have semantic differences in the result obtained in the process of their practical implementation. Priority educational innovations in primary school, innovative methods, technologies, and organizational forms of education of junior schoolchildren are given. Based on the analysis, the classification of educational innovations according to the degree of novelty was performed: retro-innovation, modified, combinatorial and author’s innovations were identified, which are illustrated schematically. It is emphasized that only the last two types of it provide for the formation of new essential features both for the subjects of the innovation process and for its results, but the absolute innovation is only the author’s innovation.The author pays special attention to determining the features of the development of the innovation process in the educational space of primary school, reveals five stages of its implementation, namely: identifying innovations and deciding on the need for its implementation; substantiation and elaboration of innovations, forecasting of the process of their realization and consequences; creation of experimental groups for the introduction of innovations; development of the author’s model of introduction of innovation in the educational process of junior schoolchildren and pedagogical conditions that ensure its effectiveness; implementation. Keywords: educational innovations; retro-innovation; modified innovation; combinatorial innovation; author’s innovation; primary school; junior schoolchildren; primary school teacher.