At the VI All-Ukrainian Microsoft Forum "Innovator Teacher", which was held with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the most progressive teachers of the country were recognized as part of the "Partnership in Education" program.

At the forum, three winners of Microsoft's worldwide international competition "Teacher-expert" were announced at once. These are Ukrainian teachers who apply progressive pedagogy and actively use the latest technologies in their work.

- Valeriya Aref'eva, head of the Department of Foreign Languages at the Novopechersk School, Kyiv.

- Margarita Kalyuzhna, English teacher at Kirovohrad Collegium.

- Iryna Maloivan, Head of the Informatics Department at the Lyceum of Information Technologies, Dnipropetrovsk.

The winners will go to the United States for the Microsoft World Education Forum to share experiences with leading specialists from around the world.

"The modern young generation already actively uses mobile devices and the Internet, and teachers face an important task of introducing technologies familiar to students into the educational process. This allows not only to make learning interesting, but also opens up many new opportunities: distance education, interactive courses, and game-based learning formats. We hold the "Expert Teacher" competition for the third year in a row, and each time we receive more and more high-quality and interesting works that demonstrate the benefits of mobile and cloud technologies in education. Ukrainian teachers traditionally receive prizes in the international ranking of innovative teachers, and this year we also hope for success," said Roman Rudyuk, head of the educational program "Partnership in Education" of Microsoft Ukraine.

In addition, the winners of the 11th All-Ukrainian Microsoft contest "Innovator Teacher" were announced. They became teachers who demonstrated their talent and innovative non-standard approach to teaching. The projects of the following teachers were selected from more than 4,000 competitive works:

- Tetyana Zhornitskaya, director of Letychiv Gymnasium No. 2, created and successfully implemented a single informational learning space of the gymnasium using the Microsoft Office 365 cloud service.

- Olena Mosina, head of the group in the Mykolaiv House of Creativity for Children and Youth, attracted children to the development and creation of a multimedia computer game based on the Microsoft PowerPoint program.

- Victoria Kolbasova, a teacher of computer science and computer graphics at the Dnipropetrovsk Lyceum of Information Technologies, with the help of Microsoft Office 365 and OneDrive cloud storage, organized a computer graphics competition "Ukraine - my native land", where everyone could access the competition works and vote for your favorite projects online. The discussion of the works was organized on the "Computer Graphics" site, created on the SharePoint platform.

- Alla Khlivetskyi, an English teacher at primary school No. 1 of the Dnipropetrovsk City Council, won with a project work on English for students of the fourth and fifth grades on the topic "Medicine. My health." The purpose of this project was to create a situational circle of communication, exchange of knowledge and search for new information in English.

– Rimma Korshun, a biology teacher at the Kamishansky comprehensive school of the I-III grades No. 26 of the Kherson city council, implemented the environmental project "Beautiful and useful", which allows you to apply knowledge about growing and caring for trees in practice and involves students in practical activities to solve environmental problems environment

- Lyudmila Bobryak, a chemistry teacher at the Odesa educational complex "Gymnasium No. 7", organized a cloud-based educational environment for learning and communication based on Microsoft services and products.

- Svitlana Virchenko, a teacher at Bohuslav Humanitarian College, won with a project on using Microsoft Word for business games while studying computer science.

- Olena Lypenko, a computer science teacher at the Stasivsk Gymnasium in Dykanka, together with the students, created a virtual tour of the museum rooms of the Stasivsk Gymnasium.

- Iryna Aman, teacher of informatics and mathematics at the Znamyan special boarding school, created the project "We are for a clean environment: the second life of things", which calls for a careful attitude to the environment, rational use of natural resources.

- Maryna Prystinska, deputy director of the Novopechersk School in Kyiv, implemented an experimental workshop for 1st grade students. Children, together with their parents, perform practical work, search for information on the Internet, analyze the results and draw conclusions using the capabilities of technology.

All contestants' works can be found on the website of the "Partnership in Education" project.

Last year, the list of the most innovative included two Ukrainian schools - Novopecherskyi School of Kyiv and Lyceum of Information Technologies at Dnipropetrovsk National University and 9 teachers and pedagogues.

According to the material: MES Ukraine