Laureates of the 2010 Russia-wide grant competition for Math and Science teachers named
The seventh annual competition for mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology teachers was held by Dmitry Zimin's Dynasty Foundation. In accordance with the many year tradition, the Modern Natural Science Foundation conducted the competition.
This year, the competition was expanded—chemistry and biology teachers were added to physics and mathematics teachers.
The goal of the competition is to support the best representatives of science and mathematics education in schools, widen professional contacts among them, and develop their cooperation with institutions of higher education and the scientific community.
The teacher competition included three categories:
- Young Teacher,
- Successful Teacher, and
- Mentor of Future Scientists.
Prizes for Achievements in Science Teaching were awarded for the third time in the history of the competition.
Four teachers whose authority is recognized in the educational community and whose students have achieved scientific distinctions far beyond the borders of Russia were named laureates of this prize.
This year, more than 500 teachers from 62 Russian regions competed in the Young Teacher category.
In this category, 101 teachers who recently began their teaching careers but have already demonstrated remarkable effectiveness and methodological competence in working with students in their fields were named winners.
In the “Successful Teacher” category, 30 teachers were named winners by other Dynasty Foundation laureates who received grants this year—young scientists, graduate students, and undergraduates. Successfully comprehending and developing theoretical physics, they themselves had undergone rigorous selection. The «Successful Teacher» competition gave them an opportunity to name their first teachers who had shown them the way.
As usual, the most nominations were in the category “Mentor of Future Scientists” with 365 laureates. This is a special competition—no need to complete questionnaires and file applications—good teaching is sufficient, as winners are determined by their former students, now university students.
A wide poll was conducted among first- and second-year undergraduate students in science departments. More than 50,000 college students completed questionnaires nominating their best science and mathematics teachers. The teachers who were nominated by many students became laureates in this competition. They teach in 75 regions of Russia, and more than half of them work in villages and small towns.
All the winners of the competition will receive grants of 35,000 rubles, and the laureates of the Achievements in Science Teaching prize will each receive 150,000 rubles.
The awards will be presented during the traditional annual teacher conference at the resort hotel Pokrovskoye in Odintsovski Region (Moscow Oblast) 1–5 July 2010.
At the conference, well-known Russian scientists and teachers will lecture on relevant problems in modern science, and special events for exchanging instructional materials will be organized.
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