I. Metshin: “It is necessary to teach children not only to put gas masks on, there are new tasks”

(KZN.RU, August 23, Mikhail Chentsov). Kazan and Tatarstan can become sites for the promotion and collection of proposals for the modernization of obsolete federal education standards. Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, announced this today at the 95th city August conference of educators in the Volga Academy of Physical Culture, Sports, and Tourism.

Traditionally, the teachers discuss and analyze the achieved results, exchange opinions, and set tasks for the new school year at the August conference of educators. Problems in the education sector were discussed as well.

This year, Ildar Imamov, the director of the lyceum №177 of Novo-Savinovsky district of Kazan, was one of the participants of the conference and shared his experience with colleagues. The director told the audience about the management strategy that can make the school successful. He emphasized several organizational solutions, which are crucial in the development trajectory of the child. “More than 20 years of experience as a school director allows me to state this: the main thing that determines the success of a child's study is his initial readiness for this. If this preparation proves to be insufficient, the child will have difficulties already from the first days of training, which subsequently lead to failure in education”, said I. Imamov.

The speaker also shared the experience of the lyceum on the formation of classes, in which children of different training levels are study, and talked about the group method of teaching.

In conclusion, he raised the issue of obsolescence of a number of federal standards. The director cited as one of the examples the Health and Safety lessons of the. According to him, it is necessary to start teaching children the basics of cybersecurity in these classes.

Ilsur Metshin agreed with the speaker's opinion, noting that Kazan and Tatarstan could become a platform where various proposals for the modernization of the education sector will be developed. “Both you and we work within the framework of the federal standard, and it's a sluggish machine. In fact, it is necessary to teach children not only to put gas masks on, there are new tasks. And these federal standards need updating”, marked the Mayor of Kazan. According to him, otherwise the education system will not follow the realities and will stay behind.

“I want to emphasize once again that it is important to meet and discuss such issues. It's good that we looked at ourselves in this conversation and saw what should be done”, said the Mayor.

Andrey Pominov, the first deputy minister of Education and Science of the RT, Denis Kalinkin, the head of the Kazan Executive Committee, Damir Fattakhov, the first deputy head of the Executive Committee, Ilsur Hadiullin, the head of Education Department of Kazan, Razil Valeev, the chairman of the State Council Committee on Education, Culture, Science, and National Issues, and others also take part in the city's August conference of educators.