Lesya Pavlyuk, a primary school teacher from Ivano-Frankivsk, became the winner of the prestigious Global Teacher Prize Ukraine 2024. She was recognized as the best teacher in the country, for which she received a monetary award of 1 million hryvnias for the implementation of her own educational project, as well as the opportunity to represent Ukraine at international level in the competition for teachers.
As informs “Osvitoriya”, Lesya Pavlyuk became one of the first at Lyceum No. 7 in Ivano-Frankivsk, who started working with inclusive classes, actively developing methodical manuals and courses for other teachers. She not only teaches students in the classroom, but also organizes creative and charitable events outside of class, in particular, in support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
During the award ceremony, Pavliuk emphasized the importance of teachers’ work in shaping the country’s future:
“We, the teachers, are doing what will happen in the future. I sincerely believe that our students in the future will make our country Ukraine the one we dream of, the one they dream of. We form values that will become the torches of their life”, she said.
The organizers noted that for the first time in the history of the award, the opinions of the expert jury coincided with the votes of Ukrainians, which emphasizes the unanimous support for the choice of the winner.
This is not Lesya Pavlyuk’s first great success — in 2020, she already entered the top 50 best teachers of Ukraine according to the same award, as reported by the city’s education department.
In addition to Pavlyuk, this year the prize winners were:
- Oksana Masovets from Kamianets-Podilskyi in the nomination “Preschool”;
- Evgeny Kravchenko, a history teacher from Dnipro, in the “Choice with the heart” nomination;
- Larisa Romanyshin from Lviv Oblast in the “Chemistry Teacher” category;
- Vladyslav Akymenko, history and geography teacher from Kharkiv Region, in the “Inclusiveness” category;
- The winners in the nomination of STEM teachers were Kateryna Korzu from Dnipropetrovsk region, Larisa Romanyshin from Lviv region and Yaroslav Fedko from Dnipro.
