Moscow school of the future project

Moscow School of the Future - a Large-scale Project and

Implementations

Dr. Sergey LovyaginSchool Centre for Science and Technologies Moscow

City of Moscow

• 11 mln. population

• 1 mln. – secondary education

• 100.000 teachers

• 1500 schools

Science education in Russian schools

Subjects Lessons per Year

Primary School – classes 1 – 4

Science 70

Math 140

Secondary School – classes 5 – 9

Physics (from 7th class) 70

Chemistry (from 8th class) 70

Biology and Geography (from 6th cl.) 70

Math 175

IT (from 8th class) 70

Secondary School – classes 10 – 11. 2 Levels: Basic / Advanced

Science / Physics, Chem., Biol. 105 / 105 – 175 for each Subject

Math 140 / 210

IT 35 / 140

Moscow School of the Future project

• Major features: – students’

leading role, hands-on activity;

– multimodal information presenting;

– ICT-based education

School Library

The ICT component of the environment

• Individual notebooks for all students and teachers

• wireless network in the whole school,

• broadband Internet• Open-source Learning

management system based on Moodle

• Digital recording and data processing

Implementation 1• The State School # 2030

is opened in 2007:– four store building – overall space about

20.000 sq. meters – about 1.100 students.

• Models of schooling:– constructionistic, – exploratory – project-based

• The rich environment is considered as inspiration and implementation vehicle for the future.

• The classrooms, workshops and corridors are saturated with objects and environments to play, experiment, and research

Hands-on

World of Water installationDigital microscopes biology lab

MiniInteractives in Library

Implementation 2

• School #1060 - 2008 year

• Interactive exhibits area

• in a big hall on the 4th floor

VIP visit school for future

• 10.11.2010

• Vladimir Putin visited School #1060

Implementation 3

• School Centre for Science and Technologies “Polygon Pro” – 2010 year

• 15 laboratories and workshops• For 120 schools in the Center of Moscow

Goals

• Practical learning and professional orientation• Collaboration between Schools and Science and

Industry• realization of students projects and investigations

(Environment – tools – materials – professionals)