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Yelena Sinitsky
Director and Russian Language Teacher
Yelena graduated from Ural State University (Yekaterinburg, Russia) with a Bachelor Degree in Mathematics. Since she moved to United States with her family more then a decade ago, Yelena has held a teaching position at International School of Indiana. Yelena has been honored with a number of awards in Educational Field here in United States, and we feel very fortunate to have a director as dedicated, enthusiastic and professionally experienced as she is.
Yelena has been with the school since its first days - teaching Russian and Literature and for the last several years assuming the Directing position. Both of her children are students at Russian School.
E-mail: ysinitsky@isind.org
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Tatyana Komarova
Russian Language and Theater Teacher
Tatyana holds various degrees from Russia and the United States, including B.A. in Music & Theater Education and M.A. in Executive Development for Public Services.
Tatyana joined the Russian School team in 1998 as a music and theater teacher. She develops unique programs for 3-12 year old children, intended to stimulate brain development and creative abilities. Every year her students participate in musical plays and concerts. As a Director of Special Events, Tatyana directs New Year plays with teachers, and organizes the Annual end of the year concerts.
In addition to that, Tatyana conducts her own research on early brain development. As a result of this research, she created several programs for little children like “Music for Little Mozarts”, “Learning by Play”, “Creative Dramatics”, etc., which she teaches at several different locations.
“I call students “my children” since I was teaching them from the age of 3, and I am happy that in 7 years they are still with me! It has been a big pleasure to watch them grow, discovering their talents and developing their creative abilities.”
E-mail: Tatyana_Kom@yahoo.com
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Katya Klauz
Music (Level 2)
While living in Russia, I graduated from St.Petersburg School of Music as a school/kindergarten Music Teacher and worked as Kindergarten Music Instructor and later as a children's choir conductor in one of St.Petersburg's District Music School.
Actually, my music education started long before the college years - in first grade of music school for children. Seven years later (and an eternity from my parents's perspective) I finished it. Ever since, I can't seem to let go, even though my present profession (Software Developer) is as far from music as one could imagine..
While living in Indy, I joined the ISC (Indianapolis Symphonic Choir) for two years and took part in many memorable performances. I really hope to return in a few years, once my younger daughter is older.
E-mail: kklauz@yahoo.com
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Michael Voskoboynik
Music (Level 4)
Michael Voskoboynik was one of the original teachers of the school. Now, in addition to his "Ded Moroz" duties during our New Year Celebration, he offers Level 5 Music class and will focus on teaching many wonderful russian children's songs that were an unforgettable part of our childhood.
E-mail: mvoskoboynik@yahoo.com
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Marina Figlina
Art
Subsequent to graduating from an art school
back in Odessa, Marina received a Bachelors degree in Theatrical
Costume Design from the Odessa College of Theater and Art.
In 1983, she obtained a Masters Degree in Art Education
from Odessa’s Ushynskij Pedagogical University. Since then,
and before her move to the United States, Marina has worked
at Odessa’s Dovzhenko Movie Studio as a Costumer Designer
and dedicated 20 years to teaching art at the Children’s
Art School #5, based in Kiev, Ukraine.
Four years ago, Marina joined the team at
the Indianapolis Russian School; she wanted to regain the
joy of working with young students and helping them develop
through their artwork. Every Sunday, she comes into the
JCC to teach various art classes with her assistant and
daughter, Tatyana.
Even though she is far away from her Ukrainian
colleagues, she maintains professional and personal contact
with them. In the future, Marina would be interested in
organizing an exhibition of different artwork that she has
received from her friends in Ukraine. Slides art that her
colleagues and their students have produced and sent to
her would be educational, helpful, and interesting to both
parents and students.
Art class pictures on Flickr.
Dilya McClaine
Russian Language (Levels 1 and 2 )
Dilya graduated from Termez State University (Uzbekistan) with a Master Degree in Psychology and Pedagogies preschool department. Working with
4-10-year-old children, she developed the integrated learning program
built on the natural curiosity of children, which was published at the
central periodical magazine of Russia "Preschool education" # 6 on June 1991, in Moscow.
She continued her professional experience at Sunday School of
music-aesthetic development ("Rodnichok") in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) for
10 years, teaching Russian. Dilya moved to the United States in 2005 and
joined the Russian School team in 2006 as a Russian teacher.
E-mail:
yundilya@mail.ru
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Nellie Vitkin
Russian Language and Literature
Nellie Vitkin is delighted to return to her true passion, teaching children language and literature. Nellie graduated from St. Petersburg?s Pedagogical Institute in 1982 where she received dual degrees in Speech Language Pathology and Russian Language. It is often challenging to teach children to understand and appreciate the classic (and sometimes very verbose) Russian literature, but Nellie is determined to make stories, poetry, and reading fun.
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Gregory Klauz
Chess
Gregory came to US eleven years ago from Moscow, where he received a degree in Telecommunications Engineering and for more then a decade was managing Moscow's Telecommunication Company (SSKTB).
Chess has always been his favorite hobby. During his student years, Gregory was a part of Institute's Chess Team. In Indianapolis, he has been instructing a chess class in Hebrew Academy for the past several years. This is his second year of teaching in Russian School and his group of "chess masters" is growing day by day. |
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