Ministry of education of the Republic of Belarus F. Scorina Gomel State University

Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogics

Country in the eastern part of Europe Territory – 207,600 sq. km.

Population –nearly 10 million people.Capital – Minsk

Borders: Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia

Gomel Regional centre of Gomel Region in the

South-East of Belarus Population -500000 people. Was founded in 1142Was the part of Grand Dutchy of Lithuania,

Polish Kingdom, Russian Empire, USSRGomel oblast is situated in the south-east of Belarus and borders on Bryansk oblast of Russia as well as Kiev, Chernigov and Zhitomir oblasts of Ukraine.The total area is 40,400 km², i.e. one fifth of the country’s territory. The oblast comprises 21 regions and 4 Gomel districts, 17 towns, 18 townships and 2,608 villages.

Gomel State University has nearly 12000

students (undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate) and nearly 1000 teaching, research and tekcnical stuff)

The majority of faculties train specialists in education and future teachers.

Our faculty trains future social teachers and school psychologists and provides classes in pedagogics and psychology and teacher’s practice for the students from other faculties.

The Universuty was founded in 1929 and today has 12 faculties:Mathematics

PhysicsBiologyGeology & geographyPsychology and pedagogicsForeign languagesHistoryLawEconomyPhysical culturePhilology

Pre-university training

The main aim of country's History Curriculum To make students understand the past,

present and future and learn the lessons from the past.

History is taught beginning from primary school.

Beginning from the 5-th form 3 main historical courses are taught: world history, history of Belarus and history of WW II. Also different additional programs in history can be taught.

Beginning from the early 2000-th we faced a problem of building school curriculum for different children and since then we do our best to make Curriculum promote historical understanding in classrooms of mixed abilities and diverse backgrounds.

My personal responsibility is to train and support students of pedagogical specialties including future teachers of history to get ready for their work in the classrooms classrooms of mixed abilities and diverse backgrounds.

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