The ‘History of Totalitarianism’ professional skills contest among teachers of history stemmed from the early practice of tutorial workshops for humanitarian teachers. The contest was held by the museum, Perm Regional Institute of Further Training of Educators and the Institute of Continuous Education for Perm National Research University.
In the course of the tutorial workshops, declared contestants developed auteur lessons and guidelines thereto and implemented these in their own practice under guidance of specialists from the Institute of Further Training and the Institute of Continuous Education. Auteur demo lessons were attended by specialists from these institutes, no matter how far the schools were from Perm. All demo lessons were captured on videos which were then viewed by the contest jury.
The contest winners received formal awards which were taken into consideration when classifying the teachers, and their developments recommended to participants of future workshops.
‘The History of Totalitarianism’
