Yaroslavl Pedagogical University named after Ushinsky is a leading pedagogical educational institution of the Volga region. Its centuries-old history is full of joyful and tragic events, achievements in science and pedagogy. About 8,000 students are studying within its walls, and the professional team numbers five hundred teachers.
Description
Significance for the region of Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University. Ushinsky is hard to overestimate. For more than a hundred years of work, the YAGPU has trained about 65,000 specialists; hundreds of scientists have grown and formed within its walls.
Today, the Yaroslavl Pedagogical University is one of the largest educational research centers of the country, in which more than five hundred professors and teachers work. They conduct intensive scientific pedagogical activities. More than 80% of school teachers in Yaroslavl and the region are university graduates.
Teacher institute
Yaroslavl Pedagogical University was opened with fanfare on December 7, 1908. At that time, it was called the Teacher Institute. By the way, in the future the institution was renamed many times. Already in the first academic season a strong cadre of talented teachers, headed by M. A. Drozdov, was formed here. The immediate task of the institution was to train teachers for elementary schools.
Learning was not easy. There were no textbooks in any subject. Answering exams was only for the recorded lectures and independently read books. The first graduation of the Institute’s pets took place on June 4, 1911.
Power of advice
The first year of Soviet power for the Yaroslavl Pedagogical University was marked by epoch-making changes. The Great October Revolution led to a significant change in both the content and form of teacher education. The very concept of understanding culture, society and the world as a whole has changed. These concepts have acquired a new, special ideological connotation. The Yaroslavl province (however, like the other) was tasked with eliminating illiteracy as soon as possible.
The pluralism inherent in the royal educational system has disappeared from everyday life. In exchange, the state took custody (and financing) of all educational institutions, and training became public and free. The church was separated from the school, and the girls began to study together with the boys.
At the same time, the idea was ripe to organize a pedagogical university in Yaroslavl that was in line with the spirit of the times. In 1918, the former teacher was transformed into a pedagogical institute. There were 3 main branches:
- verbal-historical;
- physical and mathematical;
- natural geographic.
The grand opening of the pedagogical institute took place on December 21, 1918. However, less than a year later, on November 1, 1919, the Institute of Public Education (JINO) arose in its place, which, together with its pedagogical courses in district cities, was considered as a scientific organizational center for pedagogical work in the region.
Continued Reforms
At the end of 1920, the Council of People's Commissars invited the People's Commissariat of Education to highlight shock institutes, putting them in better conditions compared to the rest. Of the 60 universities of the young republic, 14 percussions were singled out, among which was YAINO (the future Yaroslavl Pedagogical University).
In November 1921, the institution was again transformed into a pedagogical institute with 2 basic departments: the training of teachers of technical schools and social education, which lasted until 1922. Later, as a pedagogical faculty, he entered the structure of Yaroslavl State University. On October 10, 1924, the university was closed, and the pedagogical institute was revived on the basis of the pedagogical faculty.
In 1930, in connection with the strengthening of the polytechnic nature of education, the pedagogical institute was reorganized into an industrial pedagogical institute with the following departments:
- factory seven-year plans;
- agro-pedagogical;
- preschool.
But this experiment turned out to be short-lived, in December 1932 the previous 4-year structure of education was restored, the institute was returned the name of the pedagogical.
Development
In 1934, the word “state” appears in the name of the institute. On January 7, 1946, by a resolution of the Council of People's Commissars, the Institute was named after the great Russian humanist teacher, teacher teacher Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky. In 1971, YAGPI was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. Finally, in 1993, following the results of state certification, the pedagogical university was reorganized into Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University.
Until 2000, the YAGPU included 3 branches: Uglich, Rostov, and Rybinsk. However, they did not meet the new requirements of the Ministry of Education and were closed.
Studying proccess
Yaroslavl Pedagogical University of D. Ushinsky is currently a large educational institution consisting of three institutes:
- Philological.
- Psychology.
- Pedagogical.
Training takes place at nine faculties:
- historical;
- natural geographic;
- defectological;
- pedagogical;
- physical and mathematical;
- foreign languages;
- physical education;
- culture and philology;
- social management.
Yaroslavl Pedagogical University provides a fairly high quality education. 70% of the teaching staff are candidates and doctors of sciences. The university traditionally takes its rightful place in the ratings of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation. For example, in 2010, he was the tenth among pedagogical universities in the country according to such an indicator as the average score of applicants according to the exam. In 2015, the third in terms of work efficiency. In 2016, YAGPU took 67th place among all educational institutions in Russia .
The Yaroslavl Pedagogical University has a solid material base. He has 8 educational and administrative buildings scattered throughout the city. Three buildings have historical value, however, despite their venerable age, they are equipped with modern teaching aids. High-speed Internet, multimedia projectors, electronic boards, computers are a common attribute of classrooms. The administration spares no funds for technical equipment and information technologies used in the training process. Computer (resource) centers are created even in dormitories. By the way, in each building hot food points are organized, buffets operate.