For the first time, a meeting with colleagues from educational institutions of Henan Province (Luoyang, China) was held at the Tomsk State Pedagogical University. Among the guests arrived to discuss cooperation with the TSPU were: the Director of the Center for the Exchange of Educational Services of the High School at Henan University of Technology Li Xiao, Deputy Director of the High School at Henan University of Technology Zhang Ming, Deputy Director of the High School at Henan University of Technology Wang Demao, General Director of Henan Education International Travel Service Co., Ltd. Chen Bingwei, Director of the Loyang Pedagogical Institute Research Center Zhang Xin, Director of the Loyang Pedagogical Institute Information Center Zhang Zhaoyu, Secretary of the Educational Resources Committee of the Society for Education of Hebei Province Wu Wenhao.

During the visit, the guests took part in a a sightseeing tour of the Tomsk Pedagogical, together with representatives of the university administration and staff of the TSPU international cooperation department discussed training of Chinese students for education in Russia, academic exchanges, training of teachers of Luoyang in the TSPU, possible participation of the TSPU representatives in the Luoyang conference in March 2019, cooperation in the training of teachers of the Russian language for secondary schools in Luoyang, the signing of a framework agreement between the TSPU and the Luoyang pedagogical University.

The XIII Regional Scientific and Practical Conference for Schoolchildren "I am studying nature" and the exhibition-festival "Science for Children" took place atthe Center for Additional Physics, Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the TSPU. The conference was attended by over 160 students from 1-11 grades from 33 educational institutions of Tomsk and the Tomsk Region.

The conference started with the exhibition-festival “Science for Children”. The participants demonstrated interesting exhibits and experiments, introduced designs and projects, and conducted workshops. This year, the following educational organizations took part in the exhibition-festival: the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the TSPU, the Center for Entertaining Sciences "Sklad uma", the Point of Gravity Science Museum, and the TUSUR STEM-Center.

The conference had 14 sections for different age categories of participants. The heads of the sections were teachers of the TSPU and teachers of the city’s schools, while students and undergraduates of Tomsk universities helped them.

The future students of the Tomsk state pedagogical university from Mongolia arrived in Tomsk to study Russian at the faculty of foreign languages of the TSPU. An intensive educational program of  provides effective resulst, but Mongolian students do not forget about the cultural life of Siberia. The employees of the Scientific Library of the TSPU organized a couple of tours on the library and the museums of the library to help the newcomers get familiar with the new space.

During the tour, the studnets were able to get acquainted with the main halls and catalogs.The guests showed great interest in the museum of the writer, the author of the fairy-tale cycle “The Wizard of the Emerald City,” a graduate of the Tomsk Teachers' Institute A.M. Volkov.

The second theoretical and practical conference "Preschool and elementary education: features of the family pedagogics as succession trend" was held at the Scientific library of the TSPU. The event was organized by the employees of the department of pedagogics and methodology of elementary education and the department of preschool education of the Institute of psychology and pedagogics of the TSPU.

The conference was dedicated to the continuity of preschool and elementary education. During the first section the participants discussed issues of cooperation with families under the conditions of modernization of preschool and elementary education. The second section was focused on psychological and pedagogical influence of a modem family on the development of children, who are going to enter their first grade.

More than 50 teachers of preschool and comprehensive schools of Tomsk and Tomsk region together with psychologists, speech therapists, teaching methods specialist, students.

For the fourth time the Tomsk State Pedagogical University held the convention on best experts on A.M. Volkov's "The Wizard of the Emerald City" among primary school students. More than 200 schoolchildren, teachers and parents took part in competitions.

The final stage of the convention took place on the last Sunday in the children's museum "Magic Country" named after. A.M. Volkov. The winner of the fourth final competition was Nizamova Eugenia, student of 3 "A" class of MAOU lyceum No. 8. Vladimir Ponyshev and Fedor Shumilov, who scored the same number of points, competed for the second and third place. To determine the best expert on Volkov's ;iterature a blitz tournament as held. The guys were not inferior to each other therefor the audience and the organizers decided that competitors should share the second place.

For students of the faculty of history and philology this event offered a chance to try themselves in the museum-introductory practice in the framework of the educational course "Museology". For many of them, this was the first teaching experience; the guys worked worthily at the intellectual and creative platforms: “Bouquet for Ally”, “Help Kaggi-Karr”, “Crosswords”, “Rebus”, “Lost words”, “Fairy lotto”, "Reading Lesson", "Poppy Field".

 All activists were awarded certificates and sweet prizes, and the winners received certificates and souvenirs from the Tomsk State Pedagogical University.

A new direction in modern education - a practice-oriented approach to solving problems through discussion is actively supported by students and teachers of the Economic Theory Department of TSPU (head of the department is V.V. Sizov). The students studying in the “Tourism” programm took part in the three-day discussion school GAIDPARK, dedicated to the interaction of historical memory and urban space, as well as their influence on the construction of citizens' identity on the example of Tomsk. {gallery}/files/news/2018/12/s05b{/gallery}

The GAIDPARK-Tomsk Discussion School included two aspects: theoretical, in which leading scientists from Tomsk universities delivered their lectures, and practical, where for three days the students had the opportunity to gather material for further research, get a general idea about the organizing of discussions in tourism sphere. The key module of the event is awareness of the identity of the Tomsk region for building tourist routes. Students and teachers demonstrated their ability to work in this technology in the field of tourism and economics.

A holiday dedicated to the 25 anniversary of the first books in Tomsk, written in Selkup language, took place in the Scientific Library of the TSPU. The event was organized by employees of the Department of Languages ​​of the Peoples of Siberia and the Union of Small Indigenous Peoples of the North of the Tomsk Region.

The event started with the hymn “We are native”, written bySelkup form Narym Vera Petrovna Tuzakova. During the holiday there were Selkup songs performed by soloists of the ensemble “Varӷ Kara” (Parabel) Tatiana Prokina and Irina Korobeinikova together with Grigory Korotkikh. Participants of the “Kybagmyla” band (Kolpashevo) sang a song from Шё̄шӄуй dictionary «Оккырни̇ те̄лт э̄нҗа» (Let there always be the sun). In addition Izhenbina Natalia Platonovna perfomed her song called «Пиледэ̄, маннāни̇ Пиледэ̄» (Ivankino, my Ivankino) . Participants - students and teachers of the TSPU, representatives of the indigenous peoples of the Tomsk region and Tomsk citizens listened and sang songs together with the organizers of the holiday.

The participants of the events happened 25 years ago told about the first years of Selkup education, its culture and revival. Kim Alexandra Arkadyevna, one of the compilers of Selkup textbooks and a long-term leader of the ethno-linguistic circle and Nataly Platonovna, a certified teacher of Selkup language, shared their memories. The guests visited the department of languages ​​of the peoples of Siberia, an exhibition of books on the Selkup language and culture of the Selkup people, prepared by the staff of the Scientific Library of the TSPU. An interesting addiditon to the celebration was the ethnocultural lesson on the Selkup language, which was conducted by Gregory Korotkikh.

Anniversary events dedicated to the first textbooks on the Selkup language in the Tomsk region will be held in Kolpashevo and Parabeli in the second half of December.
Also, we invite everyone to visit the exhibition of books on the Selkup language and culture of the Selkup people, located in the Scientific Library of the TSPU (Herzen Street 66, 3rd floor).

The Universiade is the international sports competitions among students, holding under the aegis of the International University Sports Federation (FISU). The name "Universiade" comes from the words "University" and "Olympics". Student competitions are held every two years, unlike the four-year Olympic events. Students from the age of 17 to 25 years and graduates who have received an academic degree or a diploma in the year preceding the competition are allowed to participate in competitions. The program of the Universiade includes compulsory (the list is approved by FISU prior to the start of the bidding campaign) and optional (additional) sports that the host country determines, provided that they meet all the requirements of the International University Sports Federation. The International University Sports Federation currently approved the following capitals of the Winter Games - Almaty (Kazakhstan) - 2017, Krasnoyarsk (Russia) - 2019. The history of the 29th Winter Universiade-2019 in Krasnoyarsk began in 2012. On January 9, the President of Russia signed an instruction to the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation on the realization of particular measures to prepare Krasnoyarsk for participation in the bidding campaign. On November 9, 2013 in Brussels, the FISU Executive Committee decided to hold the Winter Universiade 2019 in Krasnoyarsk. The 29th Winter Universiade 2019 will take place in Krasnoyarsk from 2 to 12 March, 2019. Athletes will compete 76 sets of awards in 11 sports: alpine skiing, bandy, biathlon, cross-country skiing, curling, figure skating, freestyle skiing, ice hockey, short track, ski orienteering, snowboarding.

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The Winter Universiade 2019 is the third Universiade hosted by Russia.The first one was in Moscow in 1973, the second was in Kazan in 2013. In modern Russian history, the Kazan Universiade set the high standard for large international sports events, which was widely implemented at the Olympic Games in Sochi. The Winter Universiade 2019 makes Krasnoyarsk a unique sports arena where world powers will take part in a frank sports holiday, the core value of which is to overcome national and religious barriers, to unite people and states. In 2019, Russia is planning to hold the warmest games ever.

Ten participants of the “Pedagogical Debut” competition of professional skill and creativity at the TSPU (one representative from each department) conducted lessons for pupils of Tomsk in the framework of the “School lesson” competition task.

Here are the result of the jury voting:

1. Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​- 153 points;
2. Faculty of pre-school and primary education - 152 points;
3. Faculty of History and Philology - 149 points;
4. Faculty of Biology and Chemistry - 147.5 points;
5. Faculty of Physics and Mathematics - 144.5 points;
6. Faculty of Physical Culture and Sports - 136 points;
7. Faculty of Technology and Entrepreneurship - 131.5 points;
8. Faculty of psychological, pedagogical and special education - 125 points;
9. Faculty of Culture and Arts - 114 points;
10. Faculty of Economics and Management - 104, 5 points.
    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

The main scientific associate of the Tomsk State Pedagogical University, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Sergey Dmitrievich Odintsov once again was included in the list of the most cited scientist of the world according to the Clarivate Analytics. In total more than 4058 scientists from 21 spheres of natural sciences and humanities were included in the new list. Apart from the TSPU professor there were eight more scientist working in Russian institutions included in the list.

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Clarivate Analytics – the world’s leader in scientometric analysis. It is the fifth time the company has published the annual list of the most influential scientist, based on the quotation index of the Web of Science database. To enter the list a scientist have to be among 1% of the researches that were cited the most in their sphere for the last year.