Victor B. Voynov

Based on the literature review on the effectiveness of pedagogical technologies (evidence-based pedagogy), the paper discusses the prospects of using the concept of «student's health status» as a major component for assessing the success of educational organizations, and the effectiveness of pedagogical technologies used. The era of informatization of our life provides opportunities for broad descriptions of phenomena and events, revealing cause-and-effect relationships within physical processes, and social institutions, including such complexly formalized areas as training and education. When a representative set of empirical data is obtained, it is possible to identify key evidence of successes related to the creation of new schools, the commissioning of swimming pools, or the introduction of new subjects into the school curriculum. However, the pedagogical process remains largely the work of the individual teacher with a particular community of children. The teacher, not the educational organization, is called upon to ensure the formation of both the physical essence and the personality of the child, moreover, the child’s personality in a changing and often unkind world towards this child. The time has come to reveal the essence of the pedagogical process as a dialogue with the child, the co-creation process, rather than as a technology that can be built in methodological recommendations and measured and evaluated by formal methods. As a psychophysiological concept, health is an integral indicator of a child’s ability to implement a certain activity (in our case, educational activity) and can act as a reliable criterion for the optimal educational environment, pedagogical methods used, and the effectiveness of the teacher’s work.