160 teachers from Nizhnekamsk attended a large educational intensive course organized with SIBUR's support

28 august 2023

160 school teachers from Nizhnekamsk came to the course to take a look at hard sciences from a new perspective. In the coming days, they will have to once again arm themselves with chalk and pointers and dive headlong into preparing for the upcoming school year. They will be facing some important challenges: to awaken in their students a genuine interest in numbers, formulas and theorems, and to teach them to think at the junction of sciences. Almost every teacher is thinking about this on the eve of the Day of Knowledge. Nizhnekamsk teachers will be helped in this by some useful tools and innovative educational practices that were shared with them by some of Russia's leading teachers: Sergey Lovyagin, Natalia Deryabina, Dmitry Shvetsov, and Evgeny Shiryaev. Thanks to them, the participants of the master classes and lectures learned about many unconventional formats of test assignments, mechanical models used in geometry classes, how to turn an ordinary smartphone into a tool for scientific research, and how to develop children's thinking skills through studying chemistry.

Ramil Mullin, Head of Nizhnekamsk Municipal District, Mayor of Nizhnekamsk:
This will be the second year that we have gathered at the intensive course supported by SIBUR's social investment program The Formula for Good Deeds. It is good to see that manufacturers do not just churn out their products, but also fulfill a social mission. This is an important event for Nizhnekamsk. The course will help our teachers to get better acquainted with their students and electrify them. Chemistry, physics, mathematics are at the heart of everything. It is important to advance these sciences.

Elena Kudryavtseva, math teacher at Lyceum 14:
Ahead of the start of the school year, I want to learn, above all, about the latest in school teaching methods. When trainers of such caliber come here, it makes all this extremely worthwhile. In my class, I focus more on getting my students ready for their uniform state exams, national tests, and other basic state examinations. The sessions are informative, but at times they can get boring. These intensives teach us how to make our lessons non-standard and interesting so that students would look forward to attending them.

Marina Sinyavina, Deputy Principal for Methodology, teacher of physics at School No.11:
This is the second time I have taken part in such an intensive program. And for the second time I can only praise this program in the most superlative terms, starting from the opening session, the overall organization of the event, the lecture sessions, and the poster exhibition.

Many attendees stressed the utility of this program from the standpoint of trying out new methods in practice. The session's highlight was the lecture given by Natalia Deryabina, Head of the Department of Pedagogy and Teaching Methodology at ADPO Perspektiva. It was at the attendees' request last year that the organizers added her lectures and master classes to the intensive course’s program.

Natalia Deryabina, Head of the Department of Pedagogy and Teaching Methodology at ADPO Perspektiva
I did my best to explain to my students the most fundamental thing which is how to convey information to a child in such a way that he or she would enjoy learning. We looked at different options for organizing an inorganic chemistry course, learned how to make the teaching material more visual. I hope that all this will be a useful tool for our teachers in the coming academic year.

In addition to the master classes and lectures, the attendees of the intensive course had a chance to visit a unique poster session dedicated to the materials and visual aids used in modern teaching practices. These included a math labyrinth, a school museum of captivating science, a mockup of a self-supporting dome, and other cutting-edge developments.