I often subscribe to VKontakte publics when I see a useful message. With each subscription, the number of messages in the feed grows - the subscription to publics sometimes gets out of control, and I have 200-300 communities at a time. In such a stream, it can be difficult to spot useful information.
We offer you (and yourself) to clear our feeds from meaningless subscriptions and leave only the necessary communities. Which? Let's get to know them.
Overheard by teachers
https://vk.com/secrets_of_teachers
The main public for teachers on the social network. Here teachers discuss working issues and problems of the Russian education system. In public discussions, there are always many teachers who will help you deal with any issue! This is the best platform for learning the opinion of the teaching community.
In addition to public discussions, you will find teaching materials and helpful manuals. Also, the authors acquaint subscribers with current education news and interesting articles.
You're a teacher!
https://vk.com/ty_uchitel
Despite the name, the public is not aimed at discussing the constant demands that fall on teachers from everywhere. The authors of the public devote time to each topic: here you will find useful tips on time management, on organizing the educational process and children at the beginning of the lesson. In public, they often discuss issues related to the work of a teacher, exchange teaching materials.
Britishadvice(British Council Russia)
https://vk.com/britishcouncilrussia
Knowledge of English is a necessity, not a luxury. To pass certification, teachers need familiarity with foreign experience, most of the articles abroad are written in English. Therefore, we recommend you the best channel about the English language VKontakte.
The public contains only useful information on learning English: webinars, lectures. Here you can find literature in English and news about the life and culture of English-speaking countries. The British Council's public is a great place to find like-minded people who are always on hand to help you learn English.
Cheerful teacher
https://vk.com/fun_teacher
Who Said Entertainment Can't Be Good? And the teacher needs to relax. This public will allow you to look at work from a different angle, because in the work of a teacher there is always a place for humor. Funny mistakes of students, curious everyday situations, an atypical view of stereotypes about school - what you need after a hard day at work. In addition, comments are open to many entries, where you can discuss work and not quite moments with other teachers in the country.
My university
https://vk.com/moiuniversitet
The authors of the public acquaint teachers with the possibilities of professional development. There are promotions for teachers in the public, as a result of which five teachers get a chance to study for free. Also in this public are useful articles and news from the "Newspaper of teachers".
Don't be alone! Join the VKontakte teacher community and solve difficult work issues together!
We offer to dilute the VK feed with useful communities that will become for you sources of professional inspiration, useful materials for work and answers to important questions.
If you are still not subscribed to these 10 communities, this urgently needs to be fixed:
We Teach English (for teachers)
From a group where several teachers shared helpful materials and lesson ideas with each other,We Teach Englishin a few years has become the largest Vkontakte community for English teachers.
Now it is worth subscribing to this group not even for the sake of worksheets - it is a full-fledged forum for teachers, where everyone can discuss any professional problem with colleagues, it is enough just to leave the question of interest in the proposed community entries.
What's useful? Communication with colleagues, ideas for lessons, educational streams.
About English - Community of Creative Teachers
A community for teachers who hate boring and repetitive lessons. Here you will find everything you need for creative and memorable activities - games, templates, handouts and fresh ideas that will definitely impress students.
In addition, there are tips for the correct organization of the class and work with different groups of students, an analysis of various teaching techniques, advice on methods and techniques that help bring the teacher's professional skills to the next level.
By the way, the creator of the community About English Katerina Stashevskaya specializes in working with young learners. So everyone who still has questions about this topic is required to subscribe!
What's useful? Ideas for lessons, ready-made materials, guidelines.
English Step By Step (For teachers & learners)
English Step By Step — it is a database of electronic materials - textbooks, audio and video recordings for learning English. On average, 5-7 posts are published in the community every day with a variety of tutorials, worksheets and lesson ideas.
To appreciate the group, we recommend starting your acquaintance with it from the menu - there you can evaluate the volume of the resource and find useful materials for your lessons on any topic.
What's useful? Electronic materials, worksheets, lesson ideas.
English Worksheets For ESL Teachers
The name of the group speaks for itself - it is a piggy bank of useful materials, so to speak, ready to use. Literally every post you can save yourself, print the attachment and use in the next lesson.
In general - a real find for those who are not ready to spend hours searching for handouts and ideas for lessons. It is enough to subscribe once - and everything will be at hand.
What's useful? Worksheets, study materials, games, lesson ideas.
English meccano: construct your lessons
We give you materials, you construct your ideal lesson from them - this is how the community worksEnglish meccano.What is it worth subscribing for? Definitely for the sake of interesting and uncluttered ideas for lessons, quirky language games and powerful professional motivation for English teachers.
As a bonus, the project “English in Kindergarten” was launched in the group (search by hashtag#enkindergarten), which provides practical advice for teachers who teach English to the smallest.
What's useful? Lesson ideas, study materials, atypical games.
English teacher. English teacher
Personal group of the teacher Ekaterina Stukun, who shares her findings and ideas for conducting English lessons with colleagues. True, this is not the only thing that attracts subscribers to the group. Ekaterina personally answers the most interesting questions from readers and regularly brings up problems familiar to every teacher for discussion.
It is captivating that Catherine does not talk one-sidedly about her experience - here you will learn about both ups and downs. She also regularly conducts streams, where she discusses useful methodological literature with her readers.Each of her ideas is a godsend for English teachers, so highly recommend!
Average teacher, ordinary
Marina Anatolyevna has been listening to Zemfira in the morning and sighing. She is going to work - it seems she took the checked notebooks, glasses too.
Life's analysis has shown that most Russian teachers also listen to Zemfira. And also the "Ocean Elzy" group, classical music, hits of ABBA and Christina Aguilera.
They say that "Spleen" is chosen by those who have fallen in love, and Zemfira - who have lost their love. It turns out that teachers often end up with broken hearts ... Or maybe they like the way a rock singer performs Yesenin's poems to music?
And all night long until dawn
I read poetry to prostitutes
and I fry alcohol with bandits ...
Most often, a 42-year-old teacher appears at the blackboard in a Russian school, who, despite her outward severity, remains a Woman. She dreams of losing weight, finding the elixir of youth and doing well at home.
The average teacher (no matter how sad it may sound) is probably in a hurry home from work to have time to make a simple, no frills dinner for her husband and children in half an hour, then get out and find some time for herself.
Before going to bed, she prefers to read or do needlework: embroidery or knitting? No matter. It is calming. And already lying in bed, you can dream: what flowers to plant in the summer at the dacha, what furniture to update and how to rearrange everything so that you get an interior "like in a TV show."
This is evidenced by the "interests" of teachers in the social network and the public, to which most of them are subscribed - these are "0% fat", "Housing issue", "Quick recipes / meals in 30 minutes", "B eaut é | Beauty. Art . Inspiration "," Poems. Prose. Fairy tales ".
As the Steel Was Tempered. Awakening a woman
Most of the Russian teachers are no longer young. They are from 41 to 60 years old (32%). Least of all teachers are retired (over 61 years old) and part-time high school students (under 18 years old).
On the VKontakte social network, teachers indicate their interests, however, in the information age, it is not our words or even our acquaintances who speak about us best of all, but silent subscriptions to publics. After all, this is a reflection of not just our views, but also ... hidden desires.
From 18 to 60 years old, teachers are interested in weight loss issues, and here it is not just about choosing the right diet. Everything is serious here: the teachers want "extreme weight loss". One of the most popular public pages among teachers are the "0% fat" and "40 kg" groups. In both groups, women are trying to lose weight by all means - they offer different diet options, take pictures "before" and "after", cry to each other and try to motivate themselves and others to work out in the gym.
And it seems that everything is trite. Just like others. Teachers lose weight, try to learn how to cook (culinary publics), look no worse than their classmate ("Beauty Salon", Beauty), find love and get married ("Psychology of relationships", Just love, "Three meters above the sky"), choose a good movie for the evening ("Cinema", for example), and with age - to become good mothers ("Advanced mothers", "Young mother", etc.).
However, each age has its own special tastes, and sometimes, as the notorious Mr. Gray says, they are "very specific."
And, losing their romantic mood, teachers are liberated sexually. The group "Fuck normality" got into the top of interesting public for teachers from 25 to 30 years old. The last public, without a doubt, can be given the age qualification "18+": vulgar jokes and erotic photos with unambiguous captions are published on the group's wall.
But, despite this, by the age of forty, most teachers create families - they already know how to cook, raised their children a little and ... decided, judging by the social network, to renovate. The first place in popularity among teachers of "post-Balzac" age is public "Housing problem".
Publics for the sorceress and sexual hunting - from 60 years old
Only the wisest mentors have groups dedicated to the "forbidden" arts in their subscriptions. Including: "Witch's Happiness" magic store (where you can buy spell candles, runes, dried herbs, altars and wands, etc. - Approx. Life), "Mandragora" (dedicated to parapsychology, magic), "Black Heather" (store of jewelry and runes made of stone).
And mature women (for some grandmothers) put the magic of female beauty on a par with "classical" magic. Among the teachers from 60 there are fans of the "burlesque queen" Dita von Teese, famous for the art of undressing and marriage to Marilyn Manson.
They say that in old age it is no longer ashamed to cry, and indeed there is nothing to be ashamed of. At the age of 15, the "popular" girl is a prostitute, at 25 she is walking, and after 40 she is fatal. Is not it? Only teachers over sixty were noticed by Life in the public pages of "Nymphomaniac 18+".
But the latter will give a head start to the "Fuck normality" community, which is popular among younger teachers. There are many groups on VKontakte devoted to nymphomaniacs (women with increased excitability and an unrestrained desire for sex) - all of them, in one way or another, are full of photographs for adults (it's not just about erotica), some of which are accompanied by indecent proposals.
Theater goers and fighters. Moscow vs. Peter
In the largest cities of Russia - including Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, Kazan - the hobbies of young teachers are practically the same, which cannot be said about the elderly teachers of the two capitals. No matter how modern St. Petersburg is accused of emancipation of morals, its citizens of the older generation differ from Muscovites, and above all by their interests.
So, for example, 60+ teachers from the Northern capital follow the news of art on VKontakte (publics "Mikhailovsky Theater", "Boris Eifman Ballet Theater", "Theater of Youth Creativity") and remember the classics with the community "Russian Literature - Embroidery with Words" ...
Retired Moscow teachers, regardless of gender, in parallel with the study of history ("The Russian Empire: All Facts and History") immerse themselves in the world of Harry Potter with the help of the "Expelliarmus | Harry Potter | Harry Potter" public, joke in black ("Evil Empire" and "Evil Genius") and are considering options for tattoos ("Archive of sketches for tattoo").
Men over 60 (only from Moscow) also follow the news of mixed martial arts (or MMA) in several pubs at once. Their unanimous idol is champion Conor McGregor.
Musical quirks. Bilan - for boys, Timati - for girls
Most teachers, regardless of age, love classical music most of all, and if before the age of 30 teachers do not understand it (they listen to everything in a row), then in the fourth ten they are determined in their tastes: these are Johann Bach, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven.
However, each age has its own particular musical preferences. For example, teenage boys who try their hand at teaching also often listen to Dima Bilan, Triad, Centr and Justin Bieber... Schoolgirls - future teachers, in turn, prefer the songs of the Belgian singer Keith Ryan, Kukryniksy group and rapper Oxxymiron.
Female teachers (from 18 to 25 years old), in addition to immortal creations, also highlight creativity Rihanna, Timati, Caste, British groupBlack Sabbath, and young people of the same age often listen to Lana Del Rey, Basto, Dj Grove and L "one.
Young professionals (men) from 25 to 30 years old choose Nickelback, Adriano Celentano, Selena Gomez and The Killers, and female teachers - Black Attack, 50 Сent and "Virus".
Teachers who are in their 40s add to the "musical borscht" Anna Sedakova, Scryptonite, Viagra, Vladimir Vysotsky and Eva Simons.
After forty, teachers enter the top of the charts Alan Walker, Bianchi, Vera Brezhneva and jazz compositions.
And only teachers over 60 get naive-banal songs on the playlists. Juliana Karaulova and Max Korzh.
At the same time, it should be noted that most of the fans of the work of Russian rappers (Oxxymiron, Scryptonite and "Casta") are among teachers from 60 and above. And here it is quite a logical question: are these texts "for the soul" or "flashback" to nymphomania?
