St Petersburg University and Rossotrudnichestvo launch a new series of seminars of the joint educational project ‘Gaining Knowledge at Home’
In the context of the coronavirus pandemic, St Petersburg University is developing new projects to support teachers in Russia and abroad. One such project is ‘Gaining Knowledge at Home’. It is a series of free webinars that cover current practices of teaching general education subjects and issues in working with gifted children.
The project was launched in the summer of 2020 in cooperation with the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo). It has been attended by more than 1,700 teachers from 79 countries: Greece, Italy, the Czech Republic, Great Britain, Turkey, Armenia, the USA, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Russia, and others.
In the 2020/2021 academic year, the top lecturers and experts from St Petersburg University will hold workshops in biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, history, pedagogy and Russian. Among the speakers are not only honoured teachers, associate professors and professors, but also young professionals and candidates of science. The project organisers plan webinars as interactive sessions: participants will be able to ask questions to speakers and get detailed answers in real time. This method of communication will help to maximise the professional knowledge of the attendees.
Click here to see the project timetables and to register on the website of the Admissions Office of St Petersburg University
The project started its work on 4 December and it lasts until the end of May. In the coming month, we are going to: analyse challenging topics of the school curriculum in mathematics and history, such as ‘Equations and inequalities with modules’ and ‘Difficult issues in the 20th century history of Russia’; deliver specialised classes on the topics of biology and physics ‘School programme on botany: myths and reality’, ‘We have dropped everything: rigid body equilibrium for real cats’; and have equally interesting webinars on chemistry and Russian. Also, for the development of universal teaching competencies, Professor Elena Kazakova, Director of the Institute of Pedagogy at St Petersburg University, will speak on the topic ‘Giftedness and personality, and digitalisation’.