Several dozen pairs of eyes are looking at you every minute, assessing whether you can interest them and keep their attention throughout the lesson. It's a real challenge! Eco-activist Ekaterina Oleinik decided to answer this question for Myslo as part of her support of the "Teaching as a Calling" contest organized by Mikhail Shelkov's Empathy Charitable Foundation.
Six students from Sverdlovsk Region have been given the opportunity to enter the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) without taking part in the competition. The teenagers emerged victorious in the regional selection of the Gifted Girls & Brainy Boys humanitarian Olympiad. A URA.RU correspondent managed to obtain the names of the most talented students and personally meet them.
Gifted girls and brainy boys from all over the Urals gathered in Ekaterinburg to take part in the regional stage of the All-Russian Intellectual Olympiad of Schoolchildren. The winners will go to Moscow and compete for the right to preferential admission to one of the most prestigious Russian universities. Read more in Vesti Ural's report.
Yuri Vyazemsky, the creator and longtime host of the intellectual TV show "Gifted Girls & Brainy Boys", who was eagerly awaited in Yekaterinburg, did not attend the final of the Olympiad in the capital of the Urals. However, he recorded a video message for the participants, in which he declared his love for the city. Material by URA.RU.
How can teachers in Tula receive an additional 20,000 rubles each month (~260 USD)? It's simple - become a winner of the "Teaching as a Calling" competition. The Empathy Foundation has started accepting applications for the competition among educators. The "Teaching as a Calling" competition provides teachers with the opportunity to exchange effective teaching practices, and the competition winners receive substantial cash prizes, as reported by media house Myslo.
What is motivation and how can a teacher stimulate students' interest in a lesson? Elena Dubrovina tells us for ASI. Mikhail Shelkov's Empathy Charitable Foundation, together with the Tula Higher Technical School, has been running programs for schoolchildren for several years and has compiled its own list of techniques for fostering motivation outside of school.
Employees of the Oktava cluster - about their own Tula. In April, the Tula creative cluster Oktava celebrated its fifth anniversary. Afisha Daily talked to its Tula employees about why they don't want to go to Moscow and how they change the world around them.
Tatyana Egorova has been working at the school for four years. During this time, the young specialist has already managed to make sure that pedagogy is her vocation, and also - to win the regional competition "Calling - to Teach 2022" in the nomination "Innovations and Traditions". The competition with prizes was organized in the region by the Empathy Foundation of entrepreneur Mikhail Shelkov and the Ministry of Education. Read more in the material Myslo.
RBC Style tells about the birthday of Oktava. "For five years we have been filling the space with fascinating exhibitions, excursions, concerts, movie screenings, lectures and master classes," entrepreneur and philanthropist Mikhail Shelkov shared. - The library's collections receive publications from different countries, active cosmonauts, scientists and musicians come to give lectures, movie lovers study world culture with the cluster's film club, and "Octaka_Yu" works with teenagers. In five years, the cluster has become not only a place for self-development, but also a way to get to know the world without having to go anywhere else".
Exactly one month from now, on May 24, the final stage of the regional qualifying round of the all-Russian humanitarian TV Olympiad, Gifted Girls & Brainy Boys, will take place in Yekaterinburg for the first time. It will be presented in a format similar to that of the all-Russian TV Olympiad, with semifinal and final rounds, orders, contestants and theorists. Thirty finalists have been invited: 9 clever boys and girls will participate in the contests, while 21 theorists will answer questions from the audience.
Dmitry Butkevich told a reviewer from Kommersant FM, while discussing the creative courses available at the Oktava Cluster, which is supported by private investor Mikhail Shelkov, the founder of Empathy.
Feedback from the participants of the free physics, math and IT camp "Science in Regions × Empathy": schoolchildren remembered interesting seminars, popular science lectures, and project activities were very useful. From March 18 to 31, Mikhail Shelkov's Empathy Charitable Foundation and the Fiztech School Development Foundation held a free shift for Sverdlovsk and Perm schoolchildren and teachers on the basis of MIPT and Kapitsa Fiztech Lyceum. P. L. Kapitsa Physics Lyceum.