XXIV Regional Students’ Talents Festival “Winter rainbow - 2021” was held in Gomel. Student’s
relay race was held at the premises of the State Establishment “Gomel Regional Olympic Reserve
Center for Track-and-Field” on December 02, 2021. MSPU team participated in this sport event and
showed excellent results! Congratulations!
Mikhail Kutko, a 3 rd year student, major: “Vocational training (building)”, the Chairman of the Youth
Parliament, became a winner in the regional tour of the State Youth Innovation Competition “100
ideas for Belarus”. Congratulations!
XI International Research to Practice Conference was held at MSPU named after
I.P. Shamyakin on November 18, 2021. This conference was devoted to the 75 th anniversary of
Vasily Shur, Doctor of Philology, Professor. More than 30 doctors of sciences, scientists and young
researchers from 8 countries participated in the online conference. Much attention was paid to the
topical issues of Modern Philology, innovations in the language studies and methodology. The
perspectives for young researchers were discussed.
Tatsiana Symanovich, Dean of Philology Department, presented the welcome speech of Mr Rector, who congratulated Vasily Shur on his birthday.
1 st , 2 nd , 3 rd and 4 th year students from Philology Department participated in the interactive game “Gallery of Aphorisms”. The participants recollected the aphorisms of the famous Russian writers. It was interesting and educational, because aphorisms were always treated as the indicators of wisdom. Tatsiana Tatarinova and Petr Ahramenko arranged this event and involved the students into the game.
Tatsiana Chechko, a moderator of the educational project “The Week of the Russian Word”, singled out that a modern teacher should have had “a magic box of wisdom”. She expressed her deepest gratitude to all the students majoring in “Russian and Russian Literature. Foreign Language (English)” because they were highly motivated when they took part in the event.
Philology students majoring in “Russian and Russian Literature. Foreign Language (English)”
participated in the literature review workshop arranged by Irina Shulzhenko, a teacher of Russian
and Russian Literature, State Educational Establishment “Secondary School No.8 in Mozyr”. The
workshop was devoted to the studies of a philosophical fairy-tale by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry “The
Little Prince”. Irina Shulzhenko expressed her ideas upon the problems which were discussed in the
fairy-tale.
Prospective Philology teachers got a lucky chance to see that a modern teacher should have been genteel. A modern teacher should have comprehensive knowledge and bright future outlook. Irina Shulzhenko showed how to use classical methods of teaching when analyze the text together with the modern elements of modern interpretation of classics.
The participants of the master-class managed to enrich their “box of wisdom” with the quotations from the book “The Little Prince” as well as to get more experience in life and happiness.
The concluding ceremony was held after the workshop. All the guests and the participants took part in a festive tea-party arranged by MSPU trade union committee.
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