Kazan Mayor Ilsur Metshin meets with Maria Golovanova, the finalist of Russia Teacher of the Year contest

Yesterday, the Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin met with Maria Golovanova, the English teacher of school No.122 named after J.Zaitseva, the finalist of Russia Teacher of the Year contest. A teacher from Kazan entered the top five teachers of the country, and became an adviser to the Russian Minister of Education.

“I congratulate you on your victory, good job, being among the top five teachers in the country is a great result and we are proud of you,”- Ilsur Metshin said. He presented Maria Golovanova a grant for 1 million rubles for skills development, educational and other activities.

Maria Golovanova shared her experience on participation in the contest. According to her, the republican round of the competition greatly helped her to enter the top five finalists. “The republican round of the competition was similar to the federal one, it was a kind of rehearsal, so it was easier to prepare,”- Maria Golovanova noted. The Kazan teacher noted that the tests at the federal level were not simple, for two weeks the participants showed their abilities. “It's like I came from another planet, I’m still very impressed, it was very busy and active days”, -she said.

The head of the city asked about the characters of schoolchildren today. “Children need love and attention, probably even more now than before, because parents are often busy and work a lot”, - Maria Golovanova replied.

The head of the Department of Education of Kazan Irek Rizvanov also attended the meeting.

For information, 83 teachers representing all Russian regions competed in Russia Teacher of the Year contest, 15 of them competed for qualifying the superfinal. Yekaterina Kostyleva, a physics teacher at school No.16 in Tyumen, won the national title. The award ceremony took place on October 10 at the State Kremlin Palace.

Over the past decade, the winners and prizewinners of Kazan Teacher of the Year contest in various nominations have become winners of the republican round of the competition and represented Tatarstan at the federal round. In 2016, Ivan Filatov, a teacher of history and social studies at Gymnasium No.90 of the Sovetsky district, entered the top 15 teachers of the country. Almaz Khamidullin, a mathematics teacher at boarding school No. 2, now the director of the Unber multidisciplinary lyceum, became the prizewinner in 2017, and Nail Mirsaitov, a biology teacher at Lyceum No.2 in 2019.