From 28 October to 1 November, 2024, a Scientific School for Physics Teachers was held at JINR, which was attended by six educators from Rosatom cities.
Participants of the school got acquainted with the JINR Multifunctional Information and Computing Complex, the Superheavy Elements Factory and the Nanocentre of FLNR, the NOvA and Baikal-GVD experiments of DLNP, the NICA complex, visited the JINR Basic Facilities exhibition and the Dubna University.
Two days of the school were dedicated to presentation of the Physics 7-9. Future Engineers textbook, a workbook and an exercise book for studying physics at an advanced level, the Nuclear Physics 10-11 textbook, a master class on laboratory work, and using information technologies to solve physics problems. Teachers got to know our city during an exciting quest, and today they are sharing their impressions.
Nadezhda Ignatieva (Zarechny, Sverdlovsk region): There are so many impressions, and it takes time for everything to settle down. We are all from Rosatom cities, we have been at nuclear power stations in our cities, so we are familiar with such scale. But what we saw, how physics is done today, is great, it’s wonderful. And we will pass all these emotions to our children, and we hope that we can light up new stars. It is encouraging that the authors of the textbook work closely with teachers, and, moreover, they hear us and try to collaborate more closely with the school, listen to the requests of teachers working at schools with modern children.
Victor Podoroga (Obninsk, Kaluga region, Derzhava lyceum): It was very pleasant to interact with such professional people, like, for example, Yu.A. Panebratsev, and it’s amazing that he and his colleagues are involved in educating children, it’s wonderful. It’s generally assumed that weaker graduates go to teacher training colleges, those who didn’t get into prestigious universities, but teachers are called upon to raise future generations, to teach them, how can they be weak in this process? It’s great to see what kind of research they carry out here, there were very interesting excursions, we saw unique facilities. Regarding laboratory work, I’ve already discussed this with colleagues, it would be great to have cross-curricular links between physics and informatics, because today many physical calculations are performed on computers, and informatics is going separately. But you could get them interested in physics through IT.
Vasilisa Levshina (Volgodonsk, School 5): The excursion to FLNR is one to remember, where we learned about the technology of synthesising superheavy elements, they explained the essence of the process to us, now it will be easier to explain it to children. The laboratory work we did here, maybe can also, at least partially, be included to our lessons. Thank you to all who worked with us, for your contribution to us and the future of our country.
Tatyana Kopyryulina (Obninsk, School 16): All that we studied theoretically, we saw in practice here, we saw how deeply our science works, we communicated with very interesting and passionate people. An idea came up to bring children here so they can also see everything, understand it and choose their profession. And the school is organised amazingly, everything is clear, and we really liked the city.
Tatyana Kubyshkina (Obninsk, Physical-Technical School): I am very glad that I came here, even though it seems like I should be finishing my working career, but it’s never too late to learn. I was very pleased to visit the laboratories, to see a cyclotron firsthand, to learn about the application of membranes, about the neutrino program in Baikal, it was very interesting. I have read a lot, but I hadn’t heard about JINR research. I was on courses in Troitsk, so there’s something to compare it to, the people here are passionate, very interesting. The textbook author Yu.A. Panebratsev communicated with us, I think I’m the only one here who has been already using this textbook. It was very interesting to have a conversation with him; the laboratory work was also interesting, I have always been fascinated by experiments. Many thanks to the organisers for taking the time and effort to work with teachers, understanding that all our hopes rest on us to raise the level of engineering education and attract children to physics.
Olga TARANTINA
photos by Igor LAPENKO
