The document discusses the importance of creativity and critical thinking in the Russian national curriculum. It states that the education system in Russia is being revised to emphasize these skills and enable citizens to critically evaluate information, think creatively, continuously learn and retrain for the modern information and technology-based society. It advocates for teaching students to think critically by forming questions, identifying causes and consequences, doubting common truths, and listening to different opinions. It also describes new practices being implemented, like "Kvantorium", to develop these skills through project-based learning and cooperation with industries. A new monitoring program called "Creative Thinking" is being developed to assess these skills in line with PISA 2021.

1. IMPLICATIONS OF CREATIVITY AND CRITICAL
THINKING IN NATIONAL CURRICULUM,
SCHOOL AND PRACTICE IN THE RUSSIAN
FEDERATION
FIRST DEPUTY MINISTER OF EDUCATION
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION,
PAVEL ZENKOVICH

2. NEW TASKS OF THE EDUCATION SYSTEM IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
The system of General Education in Russia is constantly changed through
revising the educational standards with the emphasis on educating the
citizens for the information and new technology-based society
who are able to:
critically evaluate the
information
think creatively
(“outside the box”)
continuous learn and
retrain

3. CREATIVE AND CRITICAL THINKING IS A NECESSITY FOR
SUCCESSFUL FUNCTIONING IN THE MODERN WORLD
 To be curious;
 To formulate questions;
 To search for answers;
 To identify the causes and consequences of
the facts;
 To doubt common truths;
 To form an own point of view and defend it
with logical arguments;
 To have ability to listen the different
opinions of the opponents, try to
comprehend and take them into account
when developing a common solution
TO THINK
CRITICALLY IS:

4. THE SCHOOL
should not teach for the whole
life, but should teach to learn, to
sift the flow of information
critically, to stimulate students'
interest in creative and
intellectual activity

5. THE SCHOOL SHOULD TEACH:
To use arguments in
debates
To separate facts and
assumptions
To separate reasonable and
unreasonable value judgment
To see causal relationships
To find the mistake in the
studied materials

6. FSES (Federal State Educational Standard) -
a key document that determines the structure and content of basic educational programs (BEP),
expected learning outcomes and conditions for the implementation of educational programs
70% - obligatory part – 30% - variable part (optional, selected by a region or school)
F
S
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S
Requirements for the
structure of the BEP
Requirements for
implementation conditions
Requirements for results
B
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P
S
B
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P

7. EXPECTED LERNING OUTCOMES
Increased attention to project activities and research methods, problem solving,
communications and collaborations
metasubjectpersonal subject

8. METASUBJECT RESULTS
General leaning
skills
Collaboration
with others
IT-skills
Cognitive/
metacognitive
Organization of learning and cognition process
Communicative

9. It is more effective to teach students,
if they are motivated, interested and involved
• more different activities
• less “ready knowledge”

10. «KVANTORIUM» - NEW PRACTICE TO INTEGRATE SCHOOL AND OUT-OF-
SCHOOL WORLD to raise the national intellectual capacity
Development of pre-professional skills
demanded in the modern society,
creativity, critical thinking and ability to
work as a team
The main task  Out of the class-based system
Involvement of the maximum number of children expansion each city (more than 60 thousand people)
 Project work
 Cooperation with the industrial
sector

11. «MOBILE
KVANTORIUMS»
Reaching the maximum
number of children
in rural and remote areas

12. Organization of the
activity and cognition
process with an emphasis
on practice and self-
activities of students,
a wide variety of creative
tasks in different
interdisciplinary areas
and solving practical
problems of the
surrounding environment

13. THE PROJECT OF THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION OF RUSSIA
«MONITORING THE FORMATION OF FUNCTIONAL LITERACY»
ONE OF THE DIRECTIONS IS
«CREATIVE THINKING»
The main framing of items
development is orientated on the
innovative direction of PISA – 2021
study.
• Developing the tasks and items for Grade 5-9
students;
• Developing the recommendations for teachers;
• Retraining teachers for implementing the new
approaches in the teaching and learning process

14. Thank you for your attention!