Model kompetentnego gimnazjalisty według założeń reformy – a stan rzeczywisty

Abstract

The article Model kompetentnego gimnazjalisty według założeń reformy – a stan rzeczywisty (The model of a competent student of lower secondary school according to the reform assumptions and reality) aims at showing the condition of research on the development of competencies of lower secondary school students and expectations towards Polish language teachers and students which are associated with the phenomenon. The new core curriculum (2009) assumes students’ important achievements in reception of culture-based texts, inter alia, the ability to find implicit meanings, evaluation of the features of newly-read literary works and other culture-based texts, apprehension of the timelessness of those texts and their universal messages, meanings, experiences; the ability to interpret those texts in various contextual configurations. The core curriculum assumes that a lower secondary school graduate should have a holistic education. The task of a Polish language teacher is to organize the educational process in a way that facilitates students’ understanding of the world and of themselves through the analysis, evaluation and interpretation of literary heroes’ experiences and reference to student’s direct experiences. Such conception of education, with well-qualified Polish language teachers, could, in its final effect, form a lower secondary school graduate who would be a competent participant of culture, reliably prepared for the third stage of education i.e. upper secondary school.