Teachers
Who teaches
Natalia Gatanova
PsychologistCo-author of the MIKEBI technologyShe teaches and is responsible for how the club's programme is put together. Co-author of the MIKEBI educational technology for children's cognitive development and co-author of an encyclopaedia of school readiness that ran to four editions. Her field is family and child psychology: in a lesson you see not only whether a child solved the problem but why they stopped trying. Academic director of the EO STEM JAM concept.
Yuri Gatanov
PhD in PsychologyOver 40 academic papers10 booksPhD in Psychology, a psychologist of intelligence and creativity. At his invitation, seminars were given by Howard Gardner — author of the theory of multiple intelligences — and by Robert Sternberg and Elena Grigorenko of Yale. His courses in creative thinking for children aged 5–14 are published separately for each age and built on Joseph Renzulli's programmes; his research has appeared in the United States, Poland and Latvia. Teams of his students have placed at Odyssey of the Mind in Berlin and Paris. Academic director of the EO STEM JAM concept.
Olga
Teaching credo: "Pedagogy is the language of the heart. Without love, its words are meaningless and cheap." Over 10 years of teaching experience.
Kirill
Engineer by training, chess enthusiast. I love mentoring and teaching.