The All-Russian Forum of Student Self-Government Organizations of Pedagogical Universities “In Tomsk”, which is annually held by students and staff of Tomsk State Pedagogical University, opened today at the Park-Hotel Energetik. During the three-day event, 120 participants from 17 regions of the country will undergo an intensive program of activities aimed at the in-depth development of six areas of student activity: student councils, student clubs, trade union organizations, volunteer movement, pedagogical groups, student media.

Future teachers from Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Novokuznetsk, Barnaul, Krasnoyarsk, Omsk, Irkutsk, Yekaterinburg, Astrakhan, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Blagoveshchensk, Ufa, Ulan-Ude, Abakan and the Republic of Tyva are going to participate in two discussions on the general topic “Portrait of a modern teacher (competence, key performance indicators) ". In the first part communication will be organized through the views on the modern teacher by pupils, representatives of the parent committee, young teachers from Russian regions, and in the second, the views will be expressed by school principles/heads of departments from Russian regions, representatives of pedagogical universities from Russian regions, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of The Russian Federation, the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs. On the final day of the Forum, the teams will present the developed program of directions, the vision of modern models of student self-government for theor universities and will receive an expert opinion

The Tomsk State Pedagogical University held a teleconference with Mudanjiang Pedagogical University (MPU), China. The seminar was held by Professor of the TSPU Orlova, who has been working as a visiting professor at the MPU for three years, teaching Russian to Chinese philology students, and by associate professor of the TSPU Babenko. In the framework of the online meeting, the following reports have been presented: “Specificity of teaching Russian as a foreign language (RFL) to a Chinese audience”, “The main Chinese textbook for teaching RFL "Vostok": pros and cons", "The system of distance support for teaching RFL on the textbook "Vostok": the results of testing in the course of cooperation University. "

The meeting was attended by teachers of the Department of Slavic Philology and Intercultural Communication TSPU, who are working with exchange students from China.

Olga Vladislavovna Sanfirova, associate professor of the economic theory department of the faculty of economics and management at the TSPU, spoke at the third International Scientific Conference “Intellectual Culture of Belarus: Methodological Capital of Philosophy and the Outlines of Transdisciplinary Knowledge Synthesis” held in Minsk, Belarus. Sanfirova made a report called “Technology for implementing a transdisciplinary approach in the process of teaching tourist disciplines” and it was discussed by A.A. Lazarevich, director of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Chairman of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus S.S. Shcherbakov and other specialists. The lecturer of the TSPU was highly appreciated and  invited to further cooperation, and he work was included into an international collection. 

Students and employees of the Tomsk State Pedagogical University introduced schoolchildren of the city to the areas of professional activity within the framework of the “PROJECTORY” Festival. The event was attended by more than 7,000 pupils of 6-11 grades of schools from Tomsk, Seversk and districts of the Tomsk region.
Platforms of professional test were organized in eight thematic areas, each of which reflected key areas of development in the country and the Tomsk region and introduced the children to a variety of modern professions and future professions (IT and communications, transport and logistics, new materials, health, energy, space, rural household, smart city).

TSPU presented four professional tests in various areas: health (adaptive physical education) and defectology, smart city (landscape designer, sociologist of the urban environment and the designer of the smart environment. Participation in each area included the solution of case studies and practical tasks for schoolchildren, which made it possible to motivate children to make a conscious choice of profession.

Representatives of the Tomsk State Pedagogical University have presented education programs of the university at the Education fair in Strezhevoy. The senior pupils and youth of the city and the Aleksandrovsky district, who arrived at the career guidance meeting, showed the greatest interest in such areas of training as “History” and “Social Studies”, “Mathematics” and “Physics”, “Russian Language” and “Literature”, “Physical Education And "Additional education", "Foreign (English) language" and Foreign (German) language ", "Primary education" and "Preschool education", "Speech therapy".

At the Fair, guests got information about the conditions of admission and training opportunities from representatives of the TSPU, about popular professions and employment in the city of Strezhevoy, got the opportunity to sign up for vocational guidance and testing.

Within the XI Makariyev Educational Readings, the Legislative Duma of the Tomsk Region held the Parliamentary meeting “Youth: Freedom and Responsibility”, that brought together deputies, the clergy of the Tomsk Metropolis of the Russian Orthodox Church, scholars, teachers, activists of youth volunteer organizations to discussion topical issues. The Tomsk State Pedagogical University was represented by the director of the International Scientific and Practical Center for Axiology and Methodology of Spiritual and Moral Education, Professor of the faculty of history and philology of the TSPU A.N. Koshechko.

A.N. Koshechko made a presentation on “Responsibility and / or freedom among youth: to the question of the role of educational institutions in matters of the spiritual and moral education of the individual”. The report was devoted to the analysis of “responsibility vs individual freedom in the youth environment” in the context of modern sociocultural challenges and priorities of the national educational policy.

Anastasia Nikolaevna noted that “the issues of the realization of personal freedom and responsibility are inextricably linked with the concept of social security that is one of the key world-view features that actualize the fundamental values ​​of human existence. In this regard, the role of educational institutions in the development of the value-semantic sphere of the individual, the formation of responsibility, spiritual and moral basis of the individual, allowing for an environmentally friendly realization of the individual’s right to freedom is determined by several parameters. First, the need to build a holistic educational field that implements the principles of continuity (kindergarten — school — university) and interaction with the family, taking into account the axiological needs of all subjects of the educational process. Secondly, the formation of an educational sample and educational ideal, focused not on the changing and heterogeneous tendencies of the consumer society, but on the traditional spiritual values ​​of the Russian culture, including the most powerful resource of the Orthodox pedagogical tradition. Thirdly, it is necessary to clearly understand that favorable conditions for resolving issues of personal freedom and responsibility in the context of educational activities of educational organizations at various levels do not solve the issue of formalizing educational activities and assessing its effectiveness in terms of the number of events held, the subject matter and content of which are rather weakly linked or not at all associated with the formation of skills of conscious moral behavior. This issue can be resolved in the following ways: comprehensive pedagogical research, high-quality vocational training of teachers, carried out by leading experts with real experience in research and teaching activities in the field of axiology and the methodology of spiritual and moral education, an integrated system of real educational activities in educational organizations of various level aiming at the specific result – a personality of high moral standards, sharing the traditional Russian spiritual values."

Regional math school «Preparing for United State Examination in math» had been conducted in the center for the additional physics, mathematical and natural education of the TSPU. 65 pupils of 10-11 grades together with math teachers came from Tomsk and Tomsk region to participate in this event hosted by famous teachers and researches: A.V. Arbit, I.S. Grynshpon, L.A. Schumskaya, O.L. Gorbachev, T.M. Mezner. The open lecture “The Task of Fermat–Torricelli and its environs” by Alexey Vladimirovich Savvateev (Moscow) became a great surprise for participants.

According to the organizers of the school: «American psychologist K. Rogers understands the creative process as “the creation of a new product, that originates, on the one hand, from a unique individual, and on the other, from the material, events, people and circumstances of life”. It so happened that the creative atmosphere of such an educational event as the traditional Mathematical School conducted at the TSPU in the fall and spring, as well as the material srudied and lecturers-teachers invited – all contributed to immersion of high school students into the educational mathematical environment, thoughtful mastering of the Unified State Exam assignments of increased complexity».

Postgraduate students from China studying at the faculty of history and philology of TSPU prove their knowledge of Russian language by participating in cultural events: once again they took part in the International festival «The worlds speaks out of the mouths of children» and presented their translations of poetry and prose.

This fall our students participated in the competition, organized by the Tomsk Regional Children's Library. For three days foreign students of Tomsk Pedagogical University took part in the work of creative workshops conducted by poets, writers, literary critics, and also presented their work.

This year, all of our students were among the winners: five undergraduates (Wang Bosyaohan, Ye Lei, Feng Rui, Jin Ming, Yu Li Sheng) won diplomas in the Bridges of Friendship nomination, and Liu Haiju received a diploma for third place in the overall standings.

Specialists of the Tomsk State Pedagogical University, together with representatives of the administration of the Tomsk region, became participants of the educational exhibition in Beijing and held meetings with universities in the cities of Shijiazhuang and Shenyang. At the exhibition and during visits to universities of China, participants discussed possibilities for cooperation in science and education, the opportunities for academic exchanges, joint publications, and practices of teachers of the TSPU who teach Chinese as a foreign language.

The Tomsk delegation visited Daqing Pedagogical University, Jilin Pedagogical University (Siping), Hebei Pedagogical University (Shijiazhuang), Hebei Institute of Foreign Languages ​​(Beidaihe), Shenyang Polytechnic University (Shenyang), Northeastern University (Shenyang), Shenyang College of Foreign Languages ​​(Shenyang).

Young students of the TSPU’s Robotics center participated in the Governor’s cup competitions and took prize-winning and honorary places in several nominations. The aim of this intellectual competition was to implement educational robotics in general education of the Tomsk region, to awake interest in technical activities and engineering among school pupils as well as to detect gifted kids having facilities for robotics.

Under the guidance of teachers of Robotics center, our students had successfully performed at competitions, showed their skills and got high scores from the jury. In the nominations of the Preschoolers' Cup, the works by Belkevich Andrei and Eboron Aboronov (the project “Tomsk Attractions”) and Kalmayevs Damir and Eldar (the project “Travel with a Dream”) became the best. Leonid Vladimirovich Bortsov won the second place in the roboralli competition and the victory in the nomination “The best technical interview”. Inin Stepan Sergeevich got the audience award in robo-dance competition.