Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatyuk National Pedagogical University

Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatyuk National Pedagogical University (commonly referred to as TNPU) is a university located in Ternopil, Ukraine. Named after the Ukrainian ethnographer Volodymyr Hnatiuk, TNPU is one of the most famous pedagogical universities in Ukraine. Founded as the Kremenetskii Lyceum in 1805 by Alexander I and reopened as a teaching college in 1940, the college is one of the oldest universities in the western region of Ukraine. According to the rating of higher educational establishments of Ukraine, it is one of the top three humanitarian and pedagogical universities in the country.

The University provides courses in the sciences and humanities with a focus on education and teaching. It offers postgraduate degrees in several disciplines, again mostly concentrated on teaching and the theory behind it.

TNPU is equipped to modern standards, with laboratory space, visual aids and computers. Students can use the library which is equipped with the necessary supplies and textbooks, literature, spacious reading rooms, and a virtual library with educational and scientific literature. For the convenience of visitors to the library attached to the department of scientific and technical information and automation, the Faculty have significantly increased the base of electronic catalog and electronic versions of publications.The University computer network now connects all academic buildings and student dormitories in order to provide ease of access to the Internet. The TNPU is among the first of the educational institutions of the Ukraine to implement the idea of 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.

The 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, 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).