THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL PROCESS INNOVATIONS IN UKRAINE (1991-2001)

It is argued that the educational process in elementary school in this period was innovative, namely: in the organization (transition to the semester education system, reducing the school year and increasing the length of the holidays; restructuring the school week, reducing the lesson's duration to 40 minutes, the opportunity to receive primary education in the individual form of education); in teaching methods (improvement and adaptation of traditional methods to new goals and content of primary education, distribution of the game, testing the method of art projects); in the forms of educating organization (a variety of lessons on the content, structure and methods of activity, the distribution of non-standard lessons, as well as excursions and competitions, the introduction of integrated lessons; the elimination of homework in the 1st class); in monitoring and evaluation (introduction of tests; introduction of final certification at the end of the year and since 2000 - state final certification for pupils of 3 (4) classes; transition to verbal evaluation in 1st class; transfer of all students to the next class regardless of the grades, which made it possible to eliminate the phenomenon of “repetition”; since 2001 - the introduction of a 12-point assessment system; the conclusion of the assessment for the behavior of the category of "mandatory").