1. Teacher Education at KFU: our response to current challenges
Rector of KFU
Corresponding member of RAE
Professor Ilshat Rafkatovich Gafurov

2. Teacher Education Evolution in Russia
XXI century
Today’s challenges
50-70 XX century
Postwar economic recovery
Our mission is to prepare highly qualified teachers equipped to serve today’s society.
Global challenges in Teacher Education:
The shifting role of a teacher (going from ‘instructor’ to ‘facilitator’)
Changing public needs and expectations
Transforming students
20-30 XX century
Illiteracy eradication, cultural revolution
60-90 XIX century
Capitalism development in Russia
LOCAL FACTORS
NATIONAL PROCESSES
GLOBAL TRENDS

3. Russian challenges
Making the teaching profession more accessible, developing various pathways for entering teaching;
Attracting the brightest candidates to the teaching profession;
Developing and disseminating the most effective teaching practices (transferring the best ones from universities to schools and vice versa);
Making education more practice-orientated;
Fostering deeper subject knowledge among teachers;
Ensuring strong psycho-pedagogical knowledge necessary to accommodate children with various needs;
Preparing teachers to be effective in different contexts;
Providing knowledge necessary to promote children’s socialization and personal development.
Developing the multicultural competence of teachers;
Attracting more bright and enthusiastic people with non-pedagogical education and retraining them;
Offering new incentives for teachers to ensure their stay in the profession.

4. Regional challenges
Preparing teachers to teach in the languages of ethnic minorities (Tatar, Chuvash, Udmurt, etc.).
Educating teachers to be multidisciplinary specialists (in order to effectively serve small rural schools).

5. Teacher Education Modernization
KFU 3
KFU 1
with 12 partners
with 15 partners 20
projects 7
projects
45 Contributors
120 Contributors
THE MAIN OBJECTIVE OF THE TEACHER EDUCATION MODERNIZATION INITIATIVE IN RUSSIA:
To change the ways teacher education is organized ensuring the realization of the new teacher standard along with the new federal education standards (developing practical competencies of teachers, improving the qualifications of early education and primary school teachers, developing new trajectories for career and professional development, preparing new educational leaders).

6. Kazan Federal University Potential
Is one of the biggest teacher education centers in Russia
Is the only classical university with such a high percentage of teacher education programmes
Has extremely high quality of incoming students (one of the highest in the country in the field of education and pedagogical scholarship)
Prepares teachers for all school subjects
Offers educational programmes in the area of education for all levels
Elabuga State Pedagogical University
Tatar State Humanitarian Pedagogical University
Kazan State University

7. University Priorities
StrAU “Astrochallenge”
StrAU “Translational medicine”
StrAU “Ecooil”
StrAU “Teacher XXI”
Entering QS World
University Ranking (2017)
‘Education’ (# )
‘Linguistics’ (# )
‘English language and literature’ (# )

8. StrAU ‘Teacher XXI’ Total budget 600 mln. RUB 7% 16,5% 7,1% 2
7,5%
17% 5
950 mln. RUB 8%
18% 9
1327 mln. RUB
10%
20% 9% 19
Postgraduate students
Students
International students
International programmes

9. The role of fundamental science in teacher education
Institute of fundamental medicine and biology
Institute of Physics
Institute of Chemistry
UNIVERSITY FACILITIES ARE EQUIPPED WITH:
State-of-art science laboratories and educational equipment necessary for ensuring fundamental subject education of teachers (in the field of physics, biology, medicine, engineering, IT, etc. ).

10. School teacher ideology
SUBJECT KNOWLEDGE
PSYCHO-PEDAGOGICAL KNOWLEDGE
METHODOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE
Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics
Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication
Institute of Management, Economics and Finance
Institute of Fundamental Medicine and Biology
Institute of Physics
Institute of Chemistry
Institute of International Relations, History and Oriental Studies
Institute of Computational Mathematics and Information Technologies
Institute of Psychology and Education
Center for Practical Competencies
Center for Advanced Training and Retraining of Educators
PRACTICE-ORIENTATED EDUCATION

11. Center for Practical Competencies
Early (pre-school) and primary school education
HERE WE USE:
Interactive simulation-based and information technologies, creative teacher workshops (music, art, choreography sessions), the gamification of educational processes, personal development assessment methods, etc.

12. Center for Practical Competencies
Model school classrooms and physics laboratories
Digital demonstrational laboratories for basic and advanced levels of education offered in comprehensive schools, demonstrational equipment, research laboratory-based and practice-based works focused on mechanics, optics, electricity, magnetism, thermodynamics, student assessment packs, etc. (developed by the German company LDidactic and by Russian research centers).

13. Center for Practical Competencies
Model school classrooms and chemistry laboratories
The first package (for basic and specialized levels) consists of general and specialized chemistry equipment for demonstrations and student research laboratory-based activities (basic chemistry equipment, a micro-lab, digital laboratories, educational materials packages).
The second package (for the advanced level and for project-based student works) consists of spectrophotometers, conductometers, polarimeters, refractometer, pH tester, an electronic burette, batchmeters, centrifuge, drying chamber, etc.

14. Teacher Education Models
Traditional Model
Distributed Model
Integrative Model
Strengthening personnel, technological and informational potential through employing the resources of the head university and encouraging academic mobility.
Benefiting from all the opportunities of both a classical university (fundamental subject preparation) and a pedagogical university (psycho-pedagogical and methodological preparation).
Offering a range of pathways to enter the teaching profession (including for the people with non-pedagogical university education) as well as providing opportunities for continuing professional teacher development.

15. The Model of Pedagogical Master’s Degree Education
Institute of
Physics
Bachelors
Institute of
Psychology and
Education
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The Center for Pedagogical Master’s Degree
Programmes
Higher education
Educators
Institute of
Chemistry
Bachelors
Educators
Specialized KFU-affiliated schools
Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics
Bachelors
Educators
Bachelors
Lyceums
Other
universities
THE ADVANTAGES OF A UNIFIED TEACHER EDUCATION SYSTEM BASED AT A BIG UNIVERSITY:
Continuity, differentiation, various opportunities, multiple levels of preparation, specialization.

16. Various educational trajectories in teacher education1.
Traditional pedagogical Bachelor programmes 2.
Changing one’s specialization in higher education 3.
Parallel pedagogical higher education 4.
Extended pedagogical education 5.
Pedagogical Master’s degree programmes
240 credits
109 credits
Non-pedagogical specializations
Pedagogical specializations 4 5 6 1 2 3
1 вариант вариант
240 credits
120 з.е
Non-pedagogical and pedagogical specializations
Master’s programmes 4 5 6 1 2 3
240 credits
120 credits 4 1 2 3
Non-pedagogical specializations
Pedagogical specializations
Pedagogical specializations
240 credits 4 1 2 3
120 credits 4 1 2 3
Bachelor programmes
Pedagogical specializations

17. Practice-orientated learning
IT Lyceum (boarding school)
Lobachevsky Lyceum
(physico-mathematical orientation)
KFU owns two schools for gifted children. Education in these schools (lyceums) is closely connected with KFU: schoolchildren study at laboratories of specialized university institutes; internships for student teachers are organized at these lyceums.

18. Teacher Education Infrastructure
KFU-affiliated preschools and schools
Elabuga Festival of Teachers
Centers of extended education
The department
of pre-university
education
KFU Museums
Planetarium
Subject Summer Schools
Centre of
Early
Development
Collaboration with 15 Russian Universities
International comparative research
Children’s
University
Small University
Centre For Professional
Development and
Retraining of Educators +
IT Lyceum
Lobachevsky Lyceum
Distributed
TE Model
Traditional
Integrative
Center of School Laboratories (Creative teacher workshops)
Russian Academy of Education (regional branch)

19. Education, development and socialization of children
Children’s University
Small University
Student teachers are educated to foster the personal development of children. KFU offers teacher education programmes with the following specializations: social pedagogics, educational psychology, extended education, clinical psychology, counseling, et. KFU has a system of educational, developmental, social and cultural projects for children of all age groups.

20. Effective Teacher Education
Medicine and biology IT
Law
Philosophy
Russian Academy of Education

21. Local initiatives TEACHER EDUCATION COORDINATION COUNCIL:
Organizing target acceptance for studies
Preparing teachers for ethnic schools
School children’s assessment
Organizing collaborative projects for secondary and professional education (vocational and higher education)
Monitoring education effectiveness
Improving the systems of continuing and extended education
Ministry of Education and
Science of the Russian Federation
(Tatarstan Branch)
Kazan Federal University

22. “If a teacher has only love for the cause, it will be a good teacher
“If a teacher has only love for the cause, it will be a good teacher. If a teacher has only love for student, as a father, mother, he will be better than the teacher, who read all the books, but has no love for the cause, nor to the students. If the teacher combines love to the cause and to his disciples, he is the perfect teacher.”
Leo Tolstoy

23. Thank you!