TSPU students that just have started their way on the teacher’s program have celebrated the Teacher’s day with sport events. The teams of first-year students have gathered in the university’s stadium to participate in sport challenges: pair running in a hoop, basketball game, running in “giant” boots, cross-rope. The final obstacle on the way to victory in the main stage was a test in a “caterpillar belt” – guys got into a giant tape and tried outrun each other in a race.

Inspiring chants were heard throughout the entire stadium, colorful posters with encouraging slogans flashed at each stage, and pompoms of cheerleaders did not stop for a second in their crazy dance. The students of the Faculty of physical culture and sports proved their skills: the guys completed the challenge in a record time - 2 minutes. 09 sec. The second place was won by the students of the Faculty of preschool and elementary education, the third ones were the team of the Faculty of economics and management. The awards found their athletes, and the participants got teamwork experience and vast of positive emotions for the next educational week!

Dear Friends!

Let me congratulate you with our common holiday – The Teacher's Day! 
Teacher – is a noble profession and people come to it only by call of their hearts. People give trust teachers their children  – their most precious treasures. Teacher is expected to be kind and helpful, and he/she should be able to raise thirst for knowledge, kindness, respect for the others and love for the motherland in children. Let me wish you a long and happy life, public acknowledgement , talented and grateful students.

Rector of the Tomsk State pedagogical University V. V. Obukhov

The ninth "Space lessontime was held at the Nakhimov Naval School in St. Petersburg. The topic of the lesson was "Space Navigation on the Earth and Space" brought together students from the branches of the Nakhimov Naval School in Vladivostok, Sevastopol and Murmansk.

Russian astronauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev together with the participants and experts of the project discussed how to orient oneself in the open ocean and in outer space and to find each other in space and on earth. Schoolchildren presented their projects to the audience of the lesson.

According to the agreement on the exchange between the students and teachers of the Tomsk state pedagogical university and educational institution of Wroclaw (Poland) our university had received Mikhail Slivinski, a teacher of Math and computer science of Wroclaw university and Katajina Kozelsky, teacher of Math and computer science of one of the polish schools.

Polish teachers came to Tomsk to share their knowledge and get acquainted with innovations in the methodology of teaching mathematics and computer science at our university. The TSPU has long been working on a methodology for teaching these disciplines. For example, TSPU professor E.G. Gelfman with his team created a series of school textbooks on mathematics, which were awarded with prices of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

Guests of TSPU have already attended lectures and practical classes of students of the Tomsk State Pedagogical University, and they also attended classes and seminars in the Humanities and Siberian lyceums of Tomsk. A fruitful discussion of the teaching methodology was held at the seminar of the Chair of Mathematics, Theory and Methods of Teaching Mathematics of TSPU.

On the last weekend second-year students of the TSPU became the participants of the traditional festival of sport, creativity and tourism «Startus». This year the festival was held in «The year of volunteer» theme.

Eight of the most active and creative representatives of each faculty of the university were fighting for the "Friendship" cup and other festival awards for three days, trying themselves in the obstacle course, hiking trail and in various sports, resisting their fears, participating in games, contests and extreme quests.

«On the first day, we tried ourselves in creative tasks: made up mottos inspired by Startus, showed creative business cards and actively took part in role-playing games aimed to to rallying the team, identification of leaders etc. The second day, the day of tourism, was even more intense and caused very mixed emotions. Starting from the eatly morning, the captains of the teams hurried to pass the tourist trail and obstacle course in order to lead their teams through the same route, - says Vera Plotnikova the captain of one of the teams. - It was difficult, but all fought to the end, trying to overcome the test in the minimum time. However, this was only the beginning of the day ... In the second half we became participants of the "Shining" game, where everyone had to fight with their own fears. There was a goal - to assemble parts of the broken reactor and "repair" the mechanism. During the game the lights were cut-off on all the territory of the "Health" Center, where the "Startus" passed and only the red searchlight illuminated the road, and the silence of the forest was disturbed by the howling of the siren. We had to contact insects, a real python, as well as to dodge gamers who frightened and prevented testing. So much adrenaline!

On the third day of competitions, everyone was able to shoot from the air rifle, play laser tag, show oneself in tug-of-war, and cross the crossfit path, which seemed the heaviest trial of them all».

The second year of the "basics of robotics" course has started at the TSPU Youth Educational Robotics Center for kids 6-7 years old. Together with teachers of the Center kids learn the basics of educational platform LEGO WeDo 2.0.

For one day the activists of the "Point of view" squad of the Tomsk State Pedagogical University became teachers for eighth graders of the School No. 36 in Tomsk and conducted several lessons in order to popularize the ideas and values ​​of volunteering.

From the theoretical part of the lessons the students learned about the main directions and principles of the volunteer movement, the work of the volunteer detachment "Point of view" of the TSPU, the opportunities that our city provides for volunteers. During the practical part of lessons, the children, were divided into small groups, developed projects of volunteer activities for their school and for the city as a whole.

In the center for Polish language and culture of the TSPU representatives of the University have met with their Polish colleagues to discuss issues of education in schools throughout the different countries. The title of the round table was «The problem of implementing educational training in schools in Russia and Poland: traditions, experience, innovations». Among the participant were:

Anna Ketlinska, chairwoman of Podlaskie division of «Wspólnota Polsk» association; director of the main school No. 5 in Bialystok, Bogdan Vrubel, as well as teachers of religion and computer science Yezhy Oraksinski, geography teacher Veslava Kolosa, history teacher Barbara Bunko, math teacher Agnieszka Belska, music teacher Katazhyna Bratchko, elementary school teacher Grazhyna Filonovich; director of the MAUU Gymnasium No. 26, Tomsk, Inessa Ershovna Kashenova, Deputy director for methodological activities Julia Uralova, teacher of the Polish language Snezhana Dmitrievna Kanaki; the chairman of the general education committee of the Tomsk Oblast Evgeny Stepanov, the head of the development department of the Department of Education of the Tomsk Administration Elena Lyashenko.

Within the framework of scientific communication, participants discussed the issues of the school life, school behavior, educational programs and organization of leisure activities, extra-curricular and after-hours work of students. Teachers paid special attention to inclusive education, as well as the prospects for implementing the pedagogical ideas of Janusz Korczak in schools in Russia and Poland.

The visit of the Polish delegation to the Tomsk State Pedagogical University was made possible by the project of the Polish and Tomsk general schools "Together for Education". The next stage of the project will be the visit of Siberian teachers to Poland.

«ART-CHAOS. Garbage wind» a project of regional level, that was developed by students and teachers of the TSPU, has been started. The main goal of the project is to provoke a sense of environmental responsibility among Tomsk citizens and residents of the region through promotion of ​​a reasonable restriction in the consumption and even a complete rejection of things that cause irreparable harm to nature, as well as civilized waste management. The participants of the «ART-CHAOS: Garbage wind» can become pupils of preschool institutions, students of regional and municipal educational organizations of all levels, cultural institutions, teachers of regional and municipal educational organizations, employees of cultural institutions, members of public organizations, initiative groups.

Nominations of the project:

- Educational and methodological development of environmental issues.

- Social project of ecological problems.

- Art object from waste materials.

- Animation film on an environmental theme.

The Children's Center for Educational Robotics of the Tomsk State Pedagogical University summarized the results of the first week of the new academic year. The teachers of the Center conducted classes in the design, programming and technical creativity for 12 different age groups. Educational activities were attended by 76 talented and initiative students who showed impressive results in assembling houses and robots from LEGO kits.

In addition, the Center received a large number of new LEGO kits and everyone can use them by registering for educational programs. To get acquainted with all the courses offered by the Center, you can visit the official website of the structure.