Meeting with the Winner of the Global Teacher Prize Ukraine 2024

19.3.2025

Due to the initiative of the Primary Education Department, an online meeting was held with the winner of the national award Global Teacher Prize Ukraine 2024.

On 17.03.25, at the Educational and Research Institute of Pedagogy and Psychology of LTSNU, at the initiative of the Primary Education Department, an online meeting was held with Lesia Ivanivna Pavliuk, the winner of the Global Teacher Prize Ukraine 2024 national award, a primary school teacher at Lyceum No. 7 in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk.

Ms. Lesia is a finalist of the All-Ukrainian competition “Teacher of the Year–2019” in the nomination “Inclusive Class Teacher”; twice entered the TOP-50 of the best teachers in Ukraine according to the Global Teacher Prize Ukraine 2020 and 2021; finalist of the All-Ukrainian educational and methodological selection “Teacher’s Genealogy – 2022”; NUS trainer; expert in the study of teachers’ pedagogical experience; expert in the institutional audit of the ZZSO; reviewer of the textbook “Literature and Inclusion” by Olha Derkachova and Solomiia Ushnevich; expert in independent assessment of the quality of education and educational activities of general secondary education institutions during public accreditation of such institutions; speaker of classes at all-Ukrainian scientific online conferences Atoms HUB, etc.

The communication was joined by teachers of the institute, students of the first (bachelor’s), second (master’s) levels of higher education of all courses of specialties “Primary Education”, “Primary Education. Ukrainian Language and Literature”, “Preschool Education”, etc.

At the beginning of the event, the attendees watched the video “Lesia Pavliuk – Winner of the Global Teacher Prize Ukraine 2024” on the YouTube channel. During the meeting, Ms. Lesia conducted an online survey of higher education students, which included one question “Are you going to work at school after completing your studies at the university?” Having received the answers, she noted that she was very happy to see motivated students planning their future in the educational field.

In the presentation “Teacher as an Agent of Change: Paths to Success in Modern Education,” Lesia Pavliuk shared her personal pedagogical experience. She noted that a modern teacher must have certain qualities in order to be able to realize the needs of the school of the future. In one of the interviews, she noted: “I consciously decided to be a teacher. And I want to be a teacher who loves, but is wise in his love; who can properly organize children’s education and make it interesting; who encourages a child at the moment of error and encourages them to achieve new heights; who can reach the heart of every child and form moral values, which are sometimes so lacking in people.”

The young specialist emphasized the significant aspects of the implementation of the NUS reform, the advantages and difficulties of this process in the context of modern challenges. The students and teachers present had the opportunity to ask relevant questions and receive frank and professional answers from the practicing teacher.

All those present remembered Ms. Lesia as a fiery, open, sincere person, always with a smile, and most importantly, infinitely devoted to her work.

We thank Lesia Pavliuk for an interesting and meaningful meeting. We hope for further cooperation, exchange of experience and fruitful communication.

According to the ER IPP