Application for the highest qualification category. An application to the attestation commission of the Ministry of General and Professional Education of the Sverdlovsk Region for attestation for the first qualification category in the position of educator

Hello everyone, Tatyana Sukhikh with you! Well, admit, who has certification on the nose, and you rush about, earning points, in which you just do not take part for the sake of good results. A completely familiar situation, also once came to my senses when a rooster pecked. But now it’s become smarter, and I’ll teach you how to make certification in the first category a pleasure and not draw your last strength from you.

So, you already know in advance that sooner or later certification awaits you, but you don’t really zeal to earn at least some diplomas and diplomas for participating in competitions, you do not take other steps that will lead you to easy passing the certification. But in vain. After all, in 2-3 years it’s possible to especially effortlessly collect a portfolio that will allow you to freely hand over all the necessary papers without the need for an open lesson in a preschool educational institution.

The teacher’s portfolio is something that should be replenished continuously, moreover, you can take part only in what is interesting to you and what is within your power. And if you are lazy, then in the last months before certification you will have to take on everything, and it will already be stressful. There’s definitely no time left for the family, believe me. Moreover, methodologists do not always help with the preparation of the necessary documents, so all the certificates will most likely also have to be prepared by you yourself.


I will announce the requirements for certification a little later, and now I want to focus on what you can do now, when you still have time until the moment “X”.

Important points of preparation

  1. As I mentioned, as many participation as possible in various competitions that you can do, both as an educator and with your students. However, if contests are not your thing, then select some of the most worthy (of the All-Russian or regional level) and invest in them to the maximum so that you get a good result (1,2 or 3 place).
  2. Try to publish your methodological development of classes, event scenarios, some thoughts and conclusions about working with children and their upbringing. Where can I do this, I already wrote. You can also try publishing in pedagogical periodicals in your area.
  3. If possible, take mentoring of a young teacher, join the jury of a competition, or use modern technologies of training and education in your work.
  4. You can also work on your program while you have time. Recycle old paragraphs, supplement and expand in accordance with the requirements of GEF. The topic of self-education should also be relevant.
  5. If the time has come, you need to take advanced training courses. You can do this both online and in your organization by placing an order with the appropriate authorities. As a rule, if there are several such teachers in an institution, the Institute for Advanced Studies can send you lecturers for a fee. And you can dial the required number of hours by viewing webinars, if you like this option more.

Internet to help you

That's just the participation in offline webinars, I can offer you and advise. Perhaps the topics below will be very useful and relevant, so I advise you to purchase the materials as soon as possible, and you can listen to them at any time convenient for you.


You can buy offline webinars on the following topics in the UchMag online store:

  • “The content and structure of the professional standard of the teacher. Qualification characteristics of the teacher " (volume 4 hours)
  • “A master class as an effective pedagogical technology for successful certification and professional competency improvement” (volume 2 hours)
  • Performance map teacher to: requirements and content "(2 hours)
  • Participation in an offline seminar “Certification procedure for teachers: a new approach”(volume 2 hours)
  • Afonkina Yu.A. How to educator to build effective preparation for certification: the study and assessment of the competencies of the educator DOE ".

This manual will help the teacher to better prepare for certification. From it you will learn how to conduct professional introspection when compiling a portfolio, get acquainted with roadmaps in different areas of the educator's work, and in general you will prepare for this important event, taking into account the modern competency-based certification model, which will testify to your high professional level.

Certification is already on the nose

So, I hope that you are obedient students, and everything that I described above will be sure to be performed at least at least during the entire working period preceding the certification. Then, when it comes time to get certified, you will need to write a statement, prepare a folder with your achievements and necessary certificates and wait for it to be submitted to a special commission.

You may have to make some inquiries yourself, for example, about using modern educational technologies in your work or something else. Or maybe you are lucky, and the methodologist will compose them himself.

That's all, print out diplomas, certificates, certificates, put them in a folder, and the first category is practically in your hands. Of course, if after filling out the table of expert opinion you will not have enough points, you will need

  1. or undergo test monitoring of the level of professional competence of the ongoing type of activity
  2. or conduct a class or event

In most cases, this is enough to get the missing points.

How is scoring done? For each criterion and its subsection, you can get 0, 2, 3, 4 or 5 points. Some criteria have an additional coefficient, and then the result increases in proportion to this coefficient, so the maximum score here can be quite large.


This item is relevant for the criterion, where the result of the participation of children in competitions, as well as during further training in graduate school, is summarized. In other cases, as noted above, you can score 0 points or from 2 to 5 points.

So, for example, if we take such a criterion as the level of ICT of the educator’s education, then he gets 0 points if he does not own ICT and is not used in work, 2 points when using ICT to prepare for classes and keep documentation, 3 points are the same as in the last paragraph + the use of ICT for summarizing, 4 points - use, among other things, in analytical and methodological work, as well as the availability of CPD courses, 5 points - participation in the work of Internet communities or the presence of your own blog (site).

GEF criteria

I offer you a list of criteria, i.e. what exactly you need to prepare for certification, I will focus on the most important points on which your overall result will depend:

  1. You should have an author's educational program, which is desirable to be approved at least at the municipal level, or at the regional level, which is even better. The availability of an adapted educational program for pupils with disabilities is encouraged and encouraged with additional points, and if it is implemented from 1 to 3 years, then the points are increased for each year.
  2. Your students should participate in various competitions, festivals, exhibitions, tournaments and competitions. Points are given for victories and prizes, as well as for participation, depending on the status of the event. The higher the status, the higher the points. For prizes, an additional coefficient is applied.
  3. The presence of at least 5 years of work experience in the team with the title “Exemplary Children's Team” allows you to get an additional 4 points.
  4. As for continuing education, courses lasting 16 hours or more give you 3 points (this also includes the webinars recommended by me, the hours of which are cumulative), with courses of 48 hours or more - 4 points, and courses on a profile above 108 hours - 5 points.
  5. The use of modern educational technologies and methods is also very important. When using individual elements depending on the level, you get 2 or 3 points, using in the system and effectively applying - 4 points, if you have your own system of techniques and methods - 5 points.
  6. The presence of a holistic generalized experience and its generalization at the institution level gives 2 points, at the municipal level - 3 points, at the regional level - 4 points, at the all-Russian level - 5 points. I think that each of you has your own achievements, even with a short work experience. It remains only to correctly execute and protect it, or to conduct a master class, an open lesson, etc.
  7. The publication of teaching materials, both in online resources and in print media, is very important, but I have already said this above, I will not repeat it.
  8. The social activity of the teacher, including trade union and deputy, is also encouraged by points.
  9. Gratitude, letters, certificates handed to the teacher for professional achievements during the inter-certification period are also taken into account.
  10. The teacher’s participation in professional skills competitions, author’s programs, and methodological developments are evaluated depending on the level of the competition.
  11. An additional 20 points can be obtained for the presence of a scientific degree or academic title in the profile of work, as well as for the presence of state awards, honorary titles of the USSR, the Russian Federation or the former republics of the USSR.
  12. And if the points are not enough, then you can get 4 or 5 points for conducting classes or passing the test.

Here is a sample of a part of the evaluation sheet.

Methodological development of an application for certification in the first qualification category

The methodological development is intended for preschool educators who plan to qualify for the first qualification category. In this direction, teachers are experiencing difficulties, the work will help certified ones.
To the certification commission
ministries of education and science
Krasnodar Territory

(Full name),
educator
municipal preschool
autonomous educational
kindergarten institutions
general developing species No. 11
municipality
Korenovsky district

STATEMENT
Please certify me in the 2014-2015 academic year to establish the first qualification category for the position of "educator".
I do not currently have a qualification category.
I consider the following results of work to be the basis for establishing the qualification category indicated in the application:
In working with children, I actively use game technologies (didactic games and exercises, puzzles, problem situations), which made educational activities directly informative, exciting, varied and interesting, inquisitiveness and curiosity increased in students. This ensured the implementation of the main general educational program for pre-school education for the 2013-2014 academic year in the middle group by 100%: 54% of them are with a high level, 46% - with an average level of development of the program.
Good attendance of pupils - 70% is the result of the introduction of health-saving technologies, which are regularly used in operational times.

The priority in pedagogical activity is the use of technology for speech development. I pay special attention to the formation of a sound culture of speech (the development of articulation apparatus mobility). I organize work in this area with children through speech, theatrical, musical, play, and directly educational activities. As a result, children at the end of the school year can build simple sentences, retell familiar fairy tales, read poems, build dialogs during role-playing games, are emotionally responsive and sociable.
The use of technology of non-traditional techniques in productive activities with children allowed to instill in children a love of drawing, modeling, design. Children's works took part in the All-Russian creative competition of fine arts “Flight over the Rainbow” in the nominations “Feet, Ears and Tails”, the works of three pupils were awarded with diplomas of laureates of the II and III degrees.

The use of information and communication technologies in practice has made it possible to make the learning and upbringing process interesting, developing children's curiosity and broadening their horizons. I am constantly taking part in the international Russian-language social educational Internet project Pedkopilka http://ped-kopilka.ru/users/tkfijdf, I published an abstract of directly educational activity in the senior group on the subject "Mathematics and Logic", an abstract of directly educational activity in the middle group " Blocks of Gyenes ", a compendium of directly educational activities on mathematical development based on educational games
"Stepashka's birthday."
She modeled the subject-developing environment in the group taking into account the interests of children, individual needs and a gender-differentiated approach, which allowed for the diversified development of each child and the creation of a favorable emotional and psychological climate in the group.

I regularly take part in regional methodological associations in the sections “Mathematics and Logic”, “Music” with the presentation of game manuals and the educational project “Man and Time”.

She took part in the All-Russian professional competition “Profi” in the nomination “Open lesson” with the methodological development of a synopsis of directly the educational activity “Bread is the head of everything”, the result is a prize-winner of the II degree.
In 2011, she underwent short-term training at the State Educational Institution of Krasnodar Territory of KKIDPPO under the invariant module “State policy in the general education system of the Russian Federation” in the amount of 24 hours, “Fundamentals of pedagogical interaction of the teacher and the child in the process of comprehensive development of the personality of preschool children” in the amount of 72 hours, identification number 4448.

I am reporting the following information about myself:
Education - secondary special, graduated from the Krasnodar Pedagogical College in 1983, qualification No. pre-school education, specialty “kindergarten teacher”.
Teaching experience - 30 years, in this position - 30 years,
in this institution - 30 years.
I am familiarized with the certification procedure for teachers of state and municipal educational institutions.

2014 ____________________

Tel home -
Office -

Registered in the certification commission

№ 1 Ministries of general and

MADOU number 58 of vocational education

"_____" _________ 2016 of the Sverdlovsk region

Krivova Natalya Sergeevna,

Educator

Municipal Autonomous

Preschool educational

Institutions kindergarten № 58

General developmental species

Priority Implementation

Artistic Activities

Aesthetic development of children. Kushva city

Statement.

Please certify me in the 2016 academic year for the first qualification category in the position of "educator".

Currently, I have the first qualification category, its validity until January 31, 2017.

The basis for certification for the qualification category indicated in the application is the following work results that meet the requirements for the first qualification category.

I own and apply modern technologies in direct educational activities, in working hours, in individual work with children: information and communication technologies, games, I use research activities, experimentation, a project method, Internet resources, which helps to organize the educational process and helps in planning pedagogical activities.

In accordance with previous recommendations of experts, for the inter-certification period, I chose the topic: "Didactic games as a means of developing the personality of preschool children" with the aim of cognitive development and comprehensive education of the personality of preschool children.

To achieve this goal, the following tasks are formulated:

1. The study of modern approaches to the development of personality of preschoolers.

2. Creation of conditions conducive to the implementation of comprehensive education of the personality of preschool children, their cognitive potential.

3. Increasing the effectiveness of the use of didactic games for children to achieve the targets in the educational field “Cognitive development” defined by the Federal State Educational Standard.

During the inter-certification period I studied literature: Avanesova V.N. "Didactic game as a form of organization of education in kindergarten", Boguslavskaya Z.M., Smirnova E.O. "Educational games for preschool children", A.K. Bondarenko "Didactic games in kindergarten", and also used Internet resources.

I systematized the work and developed a project on the topic "Didactic game as a means of development of preschool children." She created a card index of didactic games for the development of cognitive and research activities: “Pick by color”, “Postman brought a postcard”, “Pyramids” and others.

Development and implementation of programs for further education: “Artful palms”, “Quilling”, “Pyramid”allowed to discover and develop technical skills in children, aesthetic perception, development of fine motor skills of hands.

Updated the developing spatial domain in accordance with GEF. She designed a variety of play centers for the interests of children: a musical, environmental, theater, art and experimentation center, allowing the child to be active and to realize himself.

She intensified her work on interaction with families of pupils through questionnaires, joint events, contests, parent-teacher meetings. She provided advisory support to parents on the topics: “The game and personality development of a preschooler”, “Features of the didactic games”, “Formation of ideas about situations dangerous for humans and the world and how to behave in them”, etc. I made booklets for parents on safety, according to the rules of the road, according to GEF DO. In the system for parents, she conducted open classes using modern technologies.

Under my guidance, the children actively participated in city events: in the exhibitions of drawings "Winter's Tale", "A World Without Fire"; in the festival-marathon of the children's patriotic song “Music of the Feat”; in the competition of children's art dedicated to the 365th anniversary of the Fire Department of Russia; in the competition of emblems of the city festival of children's creativity "Holiday of Childhood"; competition "Big rights of small citizens"; in the exhibition of arts and crafts “Create, invent, try”; in the children's festival of folk art "On the mound"; in the festival of theater groups "All the tales to visit us." They took part in the All-Russian contest of children's drawing “Vitamins for Health”, were awarded with diplomas, thanks and certificates.

According to the results of monitoring the cognitive development of children, there is a positive trend: In 2012 - 2013. low level - 20%, medium level - 50%, high level - 30%. In 2015 - 2016 low level is 0%, average level is 7.7%, high level is 92.3%.

In order to summarize the experience in this area, she took part in the city methodological association “Integration of the tasks of artistic and aesthetic education of preschool children in the pedagogical process of preschool education in the framework of the FGT” with the theme “Theatrical games”.

In order to improve her professional qualities, she took part in pedagogical councils, seminars, master classes, and competitions: “Garden on the windowsill”, “Best Parent Corner”, “Best Site”, “Best Security Corner”.

I am reporting the following information about myself:

I have a secondary vocational education. In 2013, she graduated from Nizhny Tagil Pedagogical College No. 2, was awarded the qualification “Preschool Children Educator with additional training in the field of family education”, specializing in Preschool Education.

The total teaching experience is 15 years. I have been working in this institution for 15 years.

I have the Certificate of Honor of the UCO KGO from 2015.

In 2014, she took advanced training courses under the program

"Designing the activities of a teacher of preschool education in accordance with the Federal State Educational Standard for Pre-School Education."

I am a member of the DOU trade union organization.

I ask for certification at a meeting of the Certification Commission without my presence.

"______" _______________ 2016 Signature _________________


STATEMENT

Please certify me at 2013 year on the first qualification category in the position of educator.

Currently, I have a second qualification category, its validity until 02/26/2015.

The basis for certification for the qualification category indicated in the application is the following work results that meet the requirements for the first qualification category.

I own information and communication technologies, apply them in practical activities to simulate the educational process. I create presentations, booklets, flyers for successful work with children. I draw up visual information for parental corners and kindergarten stands. I am editing films about kindergarten life. Some of my latest work:

films “An ordinary day in kindergarten”, “Summer, oh, summer!”, “Our“ Tavosochka ”;

presentations “Health-saving technologies in preschool educational institutions”, “Winter fun”, “Wintering birds”, “Coniferous trees”, “Household appliances”;

booklets “Intensive hardening in preschool education”, “Color therapy”, “Phytotherapy”, “Aromatherapy”;

leaflets “Prevention of influenza and SARS”, “Influenza will not pass!”, “Healthy nutrition”;

new Year's stand in Tavosochka.

I successfully use Internet resources to search for the necessary information, music and video material needed to organize directly the educational activities of children, as well as exchange experiences with colleagues. I post the material I have made in electronic form on the official website of MADOU No. 215.

To maintain the interest of children in the educational process, I systematically use technical teaching aids (music center, audio recordings, video recordings, DVD player, interactive games and toys, computer programs, etc.). For example, in my work with children I use educational computer programs: “Baba Yaga - School on Chicken Legs”, “Soon to school. Merry mathematics ”(FEMP); " Three little pigs prabout tiv wolf. Learning the alphabet "," Alphabet - as a mouse caught letters "(literacy training). The latest audio and video collections I have mounted:

“Classical music for children” (audio);

“Music for relaxation” (audio);

“Household appliances” (video).

The technical training tools used by me allow expanding the range of informational, expressive, and artistic possibilities of children's educational activities, enhance the impression of the material presented, and help form the motivation of children.

I independently develop and use in the educational process demonstration and handout material in various areas of educational activity directly. She developed and designed visual aids, didactic games, schemes, models, compiled file cabinets of games, observations, gymnastics, game breathing exercises, relaxation. For example, my recent developments include:

“Trees”, “Flowers”, “Wild and domestic animals”, “Birds” (visual aids);

"Blow a snowflake" (didactic allowance);

“Cut pictures” (on various lexical topics), “What first - what then”, “Consistency”, “Seasons” (didactic games);

“Finger games”, “Articulatory gymnastics”, “Observations on a walk”, “Sedentary games”, “Gymnastics for the eyes”, “Art word in regime processes”, “Art word on the seasons” (file cabinets);

“Game stretching”, “Invigorating gymnastics” (folders - collections).

The priority area of \u200b\u200bmy work is to improve the health of children. In my pedagogical activity I use modern health-saving technologies: I organize the optimal motor activity of children, various types of hardening, acupressure, breathing exercises, articulation exercises, finger exercises, physical exercises, dynamic pauses, corrective exercises after sleep, game stretching, music therapy, fairy tale therapy, aromatherapy. I am improving children’s health with modern technical means: I use ionizers and humidifiers. In order to preserve the vision of children, I comply with the requirements of SanPin for the placement of children, the light mode, I use visual gymnastics. I organize, together with my parents, entertainment (“In the country of health”, 2011), physical education holidays (“Olympics”, 2012), competitions (“Russian Athletes”, 2012), health days and other recreational events, which helps to achieve stable reduce colds, increases the effectiveness of the educational process. There is persistent dynamics in the reduction of catarrhal diseases over the past three years (2.3%).

The projects I developed: “We play in the theater” (for children of preschool age) and “Development through perception” (for children of preschool age) are successfully implemented in work with children and have positive results and feedback from teachers and parents of pupils. These projects are aimed at successful socialization of children, the formation of communicative skills, and the development of cognitive activity.

From January 2010 to January 28, 2013, MADOU No. 215 was a regional experimental site in the direction of "Health-saving support for the educational process, as a condition for the implementation of the priority national project" Education ". Pupils of my preparatory group “Swallows” were members of the control group. My responsibilities included organizational support for experimental work, counseling for parents.

Since June 2011, on the basis of MADOU No. 215, a federal training site has been operating in the direction of “Modernization of municipal systems of preschool education”. Our group is indicative as an example of the introduction of FGT in the educational preschool environment.

I have a secondary special pedagogical education.

I improve my skills through continuing education courses and take part in various specialized seminars and webinars. In 2009, she attended the courses “Computer Technologies in Professional Activities”. In 2010, she attended courses on the program "Theory and Practice of Preschool Education", in the amount of 104 hours. In 2012, she participated in the seminar “Organization and content of the teacher’s activities in groups of children with speech impairments”. In 2012, she participated in a series of webinars "Site as a tool for working with parents." In 2013, she was a participant in the Round Table on the topic “Resolution of Conflict Situations in the DOE”. In 2013, she participated in a series of seminars “Television by the forces of children in a preschool educational institution as a process of socialization of children and an instrument for the development of the emotional-cognitive sphere”.

I successfully collaborate with parents using various forms of interaction: meetings, individual conversations, open days, visual agitation. I have positive feedback about my teaching activities posted on the site kemdetki.ru. As a result of interaction with parents in the educational process, the interest of both children and adults in the activities and life of MADOU increased. For 4 years of work at MADOU No. 215, there were no complaints from parents.

I systematically engage in self-education, study the latest in methodological literature, research articles on preschool education, and review specialized fresh publications for colleagues. I work on the topic of self-education: "Theatrical games as a means of developing children's speech." A long-term plan has been developed on this topic, a selection of games and exercises has been created. Various types of theaters for children’s games were made: finger-type, glove, plane, mask, clothespin. The results of monitoring children's speech activity have proved the effectiveness of my work on the development of speech through theatrical games. Data for the 2011-2012 academic year:

the ratio of the levels of speech development in coherent speech in children at the beginning of the school year is high 15%, average 54%, low 31%;

the ratio of the levels of speech development in coherent speech in children at the end of the school year is high 46%, average 54%, low 0%.

In order to improve teaching and upbringing methods, I take an active part in teachers' councils, seminars, workshops, and consultations held at MADOU. I am a member of the Council of Educators, secretary of the MADOU Trade Union Organization No. 215, a member of the PMPK, a member of the creative group for the study and implementation of FGT, a mentor for young specialists of MADOU, a mentor for students of the Kemerovo Pedagogical College. I show open events for teachers of kindergarten and students of teacher training college, for example:

theatrical production of "Gingerbread Man" (2010);

master class “Making finger puppets” (2010);

Literacy training GCD (2011);

organization of the role-playing game "Clinic" (2012);

the organization of didactic and outdoor games with children (2010 - 2013);

consultations for students of the Pedagogical College on the topics of teaching practice (2010 - 2013);

organization of math games with children (2013).

I take an active part in events at various levels.

Participated in the MADOU team in the citykemerovo educational institution competition for the best design, 1st place (2009).

Participated in the competition of winter towns, held in MADOU (2010).

P prepared and presented to teachers at the teachers' council a report and a presentation “Health-saving technologies in preschool education. From work experience ”(2011).

She was awarded a diploma for 1st place in the Brain Ring team game on the basics of life safety, held at MADOU No. 215 (2011).

As part of the team, she participated in the city competition “The Best Kindergarten Site”, 2nd place (2012).

Together with children I participate in all exhibitions and competitions of children's creativity held in MADOU No. 215.

I am the administrator of the official site of MADOU No. 215 - tavosochka.my1.ru. I conduct various events that contribute to the development of the site and increase the efficiency of work with parents through the Internet resource. In 2012, she organized and held an online contest "New Year's photo" in which more than thirty children attended MADOU No. 215.

I take an active part in competitions at various levels.

In 2010, she participated in the city's competition for methodological developments, “Know the World.” Awarded a letter of thanks.

In 2010, she took part in the city competition "Didactic Games according to the Rules of the Road." Awarded with a certificate of participation.

In 2012, she participated in the All-Russian Internet contest "The best site of the DOW". She was awarded a diploma for third place in the nomination "Site fullness".

In 2012, I was awarded a letter of thanks from the Office of Education of the Administration of Kemerovo in connection with the successful graduation of the children of my group to school.

A high level of knowledge of innovative pedagogical technologies, their skillful adaptation to a specific group of children, as well as their use in the educational process, allow me to develop the cognitive potential of each child: 92% of my students successfully master the general educational program of preschool education and have high and medium levels of development.

According to the results of my monitoring, there is a positive trend in reducing the incidence over the past 3 years, the average pass rate for one child due to illness is lower than the territorial average:

kemerovo city (days)

Group (days)

Creating a safe and favorable microclimate for each pupil contributes to the absence of emergency situations and the facts of injuries to children.

My students systematically take part in competitions at various levels. Children awarded:

diploma for participation in the regional ecological design contest “Autumn Mirror” (2011);

diploma for active participation in the holiday MADOU No. 215, dedicated to Earth Day (2011);

diploma for 1st place in sports competitions MADOU No. 215 "Russian Athletes" (2011);

a letter of thanks for active participation in the contest "Miracles of Nature" (2012);

diploma for 1 place in the sports competition "Olympic Games", held in MADOU No. 215 (2012);

diploma of the participant of the regional competition of children's choreographic groups “Steps to success - 2012” in the nomination “Variety dance” (2012);

a diploma of a participant in the district contest of performers of children's pop songs “Golden Cockerel” ”(2012);

diploma of the 2nd degree of the city competition of folk song performers (2012);

diploma for 1 place in the city competition of folk song performers (2013).

In my work I am creatively approaching the organization of a subject-developing environment. Its quality meets the program requirements and age characteristics of children. I use innovative design techniques, applying the principles of constructing a developing environment in accordance with the FGT. I make visual and game material using various technologies: testoplasty (material for role-playing games), quilling (design elements of the group and parent corner), collage (design elements of the group), scrapbooking (greeting cards), knitting (design elements of the group), sewing (design elements of the walking area).

Graduates of my group have a high level of preparation for training and successfully study in schools and gymnasiums of the city. The final monitoring showed 100% readiness for school for my students.

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