Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University

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Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University (commonly referred to as TNPU) is a university located in Ternopil, Ukraine.

TNPU provides courses in the sciences and humanities with a focus on education and teaching.^[1] It offers postgraduate degrees mainly in teaching and the theory behind it.^[2]

Organization and administration[]

TNPU is equipped with laboratory space, visual aids and computers. Students can use the library and a virtual library with educational and scientific literature. The Faculty have significantly increased the base of electronic catalog and electronic versions of publications.

The TNPU computer network now connects all academic buildings and student dormitories in order to provide ease of access to the Internet. TNPU has implemented the learning process of the Bologna Declaration. These implementations included introducing new forms of self-study for students, their consistent and systematic education via online modules, enacted server management teaching resources on the basis of MODULE; enabling unified teachers to prepare their courses online and thereby establishing a permanent monitoring of the quality control of education from the existing diagnostic framework by utilizing Senior research students as internal control while training.

Faculty of Foreign Languages[]

The TNPU educational process at the department based on the principles of dialogical conception of education, aimed to form integrative and communicative competences and involves teaching students of foreign language communication in the context of different cultures. The faculty introduces the basic principles of the Bologna process, uses the European forms of work. Teachers developed and offered to students to choose different kinds of special courses on problems of modern language, literature and methods of teaching foreign languages. They practice innovative forms of individual and independent work: INDZ (Individual Research Assignment), online and group projects, working with linguistic CDs, current and complete computer testing, etc. The Faculty introduces new methods of teaching : Critical Thinking (K. Popper ), the development of creative thinking ( D. Kuher, etc.) and trainings (personal growth, development of creative and communication skills).

History of the Faculty[]

The Faculty of Foreign Languages was established in 1993 by the opening of the specialty “English Language and Literature”. A year later, there was the inauguration of the students of the German department, and in 2000 it was appeared the specialty “French Language and Literature”. In 2003, the department opened non-teaching specialists training course "Translation (English- Ukrainian)". The faculty has six departments: English Philology, the practice of English and methods of its teaching, the theory and practice of translation, German, French, foreign languages. They are headed by 4 Candidates of Philological Sciences, 2 Doctors of Pedagogy. 96 teachers teach more than 800 students, 6 technicians and 4 engineers help them and serving computer rooms. The faculty provides the training of specialists in the following educational- qualification levels: • Bachelor of Teacher Education: - teacher of foreign language (English, German, French) - translator and teacher of English; • Specialist: - teacher of the main and second languages and foreign literature teacher – translator of English, an English language teacher and a second foreign language teacher; • Master of Teacher Education: - teacher of the main foreign language, teacher of the second language and foreign literature; • Master of Philology - translator of English, an English teacher and teacher of a second foreign language.

Research[]

Research works of teachers and students focused on the research of complex topics in linguistics, literature, language teaching methodology and pedagogy, three of them have a state registration. From the 96 teachers working at the faculty, 2 teachers have the degree of Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, and 54 of them have degree of Candidate of Sciences (including 32 docents).

History[]

TPNU was founded as the Kremenetskii Lyceum in 1805 by Tsar Alexander I. It reopened as the Kremenets Teachers’ Institute\ in 1940.^[3] In 1950, it was reorganized into the Pedagogical Institute. In 1969, the institute was relocated to Ternopil.

In 1997, the Ternopil State Pedagogical University was founded. It was named after Volodymyr Hnatiuk. In 2004, the school was named a national university.

Campuses and Buildings[]

• Building #1 is the main building. The administration of the university, the entrance examination committee, the trade union committees of the workers and the students, the library, the geographical department, the chemical and biological department, the department of philology, the department of foreign languages, the department of physical education, the centre of pre-entrance training, the centre of monitoring of the education services quality and job placement assistance
• Building #2 The engineer-pedagogical department and the psychology-pedagogical department of the Institute of Pedagogy and Psychology.
• Building #3 The Institute of Arts, the department of primary education of the Institute of Pedagogy and Psychology, and the students’ recreation centre “Svitlytsia”.
• Building #4 The physics and mathematics department and the centre of the second higher education .
• Building #5 The engineer-pedagogical department
• Building #6 The workshops of the engineer-pedagogical department
• Building #7 The sub-department of journalism of the department of philology
• Building #8 ( The historical department

International tie[]

• Academy of Physical Education (Wroclaw, Poland)
• Rzeszow, Zelenohurskym and University of Lublin (Poland )
• University of Economy in Bydgoszcz (Poland)
• Ukrainian consortium of universities
• University of Warsaw (Poland)
• Rusenskym University. Angela Kancheva (Bulgaria)
• University of Applied Sciences Tsytau / Görlitz ( Germany)
• University of East European Centre Hohenhaym (Stuttgart, Germany )
• University of Regensburg (Germany)
• University College of Teacher Education Carinthia (Austria)
• Campbellsville University (USA ),
• University of Central Arkansas (USA)
• Southern Federal University (Russia )

Notable alumni[]

• Michael Tsymbaliuk, Head of Lviv Regional State Administration;
• Tereshchuk Gregory, Vice-Chancellor of the University;
• MP of Ukraine, Anatoliy Kudrenko;
• Helen Pidgrushna, European champion in biathlon, Olympian
• Angela Balakhonova, honored Master of Sports, Olympian, world silver medalist, European champion, multiple world record holder in Europe.

Student football team became the champions of European universities in 2009 and bronze at the World Championship in 2010.

See also[]

• Open access in Ukraine

External links[]

• Official Site
• Ukrainian Wikipedia

References[]