Annotation: The article is devoted to improve the efficiency of the formation activity in the early school years. In particular, it discloses approaches graphic activity as a means of increasing the activity. The article describes the manifestation of activity in various areas, the problem of its formation. We describe the types of activity in the early school years, which have different levels of development. The authors have examined the application of the system of graphic activity in the educational process, as a means to improve the efficiency of the formation activity.

Annotation: The article is devoted to modern technologies of organization the process of psychological and pedagogical support of upbringing children-orphans and children left without parental care, foster families. Particularly, basic approaches, criteria and stage-by-stage maintenance of organization of this process are exposed in the article. Analysis of the types of psycho-pedagogical support of orphans are given in this article: guardianship (trusteeship), foster family; also there are the main directions of psycho- educational support of children-orphans in the family. The stages of prevention and rehabilitation work on socio-pedagogical and psychological support are considered by authors. The basic conditions of organization of the socio-pedagogical support of children-orphans and children left without parental care in foster families are also defined in this article.

Annotation: The article is devoted to investigation of the structure of teachers’ professional competence. Taking into a ccount that competence is based on the relation of interdependent motivations, values, theoretical knowledge, practical skills, the integral characteristics, capacity for reflection, professional and personal qualities, was suggested to identify motivational-evaluative cognitive-practical and self-cognitive-practical and self-reflective components in the structure of the professional competence of teachers of biology

Annotation: The study of the dynamics of productivity of middle school students in the general education school during the school week was conducted. It has been revealed that when the class schedule is created, the norms of the organization of the school day are sometimes not observed, which is reflected in the dynamics of the mental working ability of students in the educational process.

Annotation: In the article, the questions of functioning of "self-knowledge" discipline in the school curriculum, setting goals and tasks in the process of educating the younger generation are considered. Based on the ideas of the spiritual and moral education of students.

Annotation: In this article the question connected with the activation of cognitive activity of students. It one of issues of the day on the modern stage of development of pedagogical theory and practice. An author exposes development of activity, independence, initiativeness, creative approach to the thing, these are the requirements of life, qualificatory that direction in that it is necessary to perfect an educational process in a great deal. Searches of ways of development of schoolchildren’s activation of cognitive activity, developing their cognitive flairs and independence is a task that teachers are called to decide. The use of ICТ, that allows to activate thinking, ability to offer the variants of vision of problem, question, themes in the narrow and wide understanding and participating in the discussion are examined in the article. It helps to improve quality education, forms a culture, aesthetic skills of students, develop attention, memory. All this has a practical orientation in different areas and spheres of activity of student. Information technologies, examined in this scientific article as a process of the use of totality of facilities, methods of collection, treatment and communication of data - assists working off at the methods of students of actions, helps forming of processes of self-government of personality, will transform an effectively-practical sphere and carries out the emotionally-semantic going near the study of questions, that discussions, professional orientation.

Annotation: This article mainly deals with the role of healthy lifestyle in strengthening pupils` health. The relevance of the issue of healthy lifestyle modeling arises out of the fact that heath is one of the most significant life values of a person and a guarantee of his or her welfare longevity. Currently, due to the low life expectancy of people, it is crucial to foster the meaning of health as the main value in one`s life and importance and necessity of health preservation from the early childhood. Life preservation requires dedicated and persistent efforts from every person. Herewith, it is necessary to understand one fact: life preservation is a personal prerogative. If one is to always be healthy one must remember that it requires persistent, dedicated and considerable efforts. Therefore, it is crucial to have a long course of personal conduct that designates the general culture of our labour and rest management, rational combination of physical and mental workload, sensible nutrition, active leisure and good quality sleep, and, moreover, skills of safe conduct in different dangerous emergencies. All of it composes the system of healthy lifestyle.

Annotation: The renewal of the paradigm of 12-year education is associated with the formation of key competencies in students that help to learn, understand and develop the world around. The developed set of tasks is designed to develop the need to transform educational material with the aim of improving the quality of education. This material is compiled in accordance with the age characteristics of primary school students, is aimed at organizing the processes of mastering new ways of acting, which will contribute to the formation of educational and cognitive activities. The issues discussed in the article will allow us to implement a competence approach in the education of students. The tasks presented in the article are intended to activate the educational motivation, the organization of independent cognitive activity, contribute to the systematization and objectification of the processes of monitoring and evaluation of educational activities.

Annotation: Education is one of the priority directions in the development of our state. It is impossible to talk about modernization of education without monitoring its quality. The article considers a differentiated approach to learning, the conditions under which this approach can be applied. Two main criteria of the differentiated approach are singled out: level of training and learning ability. The article gives recommendations on the phased implementation of differentiation. Positive and negative parties of different types of control of education quality are also presented. Most objective is the differentiated test control. The article reveals its characteristics, the possibilities of using it in lessons in primary school.

Annotation: Development of a communicative competence of a child is a crucial task of educational process of preschool institution. The article describes the problem of communicative competence of preschool children. At the preschool age, the main task of the teacher is to educate an all-around intellectually developed and communicatively competent person.