An Ethnic Meeting of Teachers Took Place in Beloyarsk, Priuralsky District

Experts in native languages, culture and pedagogy exchanged experience in project work and spoke about the priorities in teaching native languages.

Teachers and students participated in a series of master classes including study of the folklore songs of the peoples of the North, theatrical performances in native languages, traditional Nenets and Khanty games and toys, Nenets patterned writing, ethno-blogging, baking traditional Komi shanegs and playing national sports of indigenous northerners.

At the “round table” educators of the Priuralsky District discussed the features of raising children in family-type boarding schools, and participated in the intellectual game “What? Where? When?”.

The meeting within the framework of the “Priural Argish” ethnoproject included a practice-oriented event on the mechanisms of teaching children with the help of fictional stories (apocrypha) and picture-based storytelling in the native language.

Today, more than 620 children study at the school of Beloyarsk. More than 260 of them live in a boarding school. Pupils talked about their leisure activities and interests. Today they attend various additional classes, including sports, arts, crafts and media. The children create video materials themselves and learn to take pictures.

The meeting took place during the Year of the Teacher and Mentor declared in Russia, the Year of Knowledge in Yamal and within the framework of the 2022-2032 International Decade of Indigenous Languages.