Brazilian teachers, Jayse Ferreira, from Pernambuco, and Débora Garofalo, from São Paulo, are among the 50 finalists of the global teacher international award, which analyzes the work of professionals from 171 countries focusing on innovative and creative teaching methods. There were over 30,000 entries. The award ceremony will take place in March, in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.
In Itambé, Pernambuco, Jayse Ferreira decided to encourage the love of art at the Escola de Referência de Ensino Médio Frei Orlando. Through cinema, filming made by the students, they began to report the daily life of violence and poverty, as well as discrimination.
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With the support of local companies, the project grew. There were donations of equipment, clothes and costumes. The students carried out the entire filming process: from acting to editing. The resulting video was viewed over 20,000 times on YouTube in less than a week.
From then on, the students expanded the project and produced a video showing the risks of alcohol consumption by drivers. Parallel to filming, Ferreira's students engage in debates on the subjects they address, including racial and religious identities in the face of experiences of prejudice.
The result came with an increase in the number of enrollments in universities, reduction of evasion and local and national recognition of the project.
Débora Garofalo had a difficult childhood, overcame obstacles and decided to transform the Municipal School of Elementary School Almirante Ary Palmeiras, in São Paulo, as a model and started to provide training for others teachers. Based on the students' mapping of neighborhood problems, such as poverty and violence, she developed technology projects.
From open classes on waste management to the local community, Débora Garofalo uses the “creator” culture to encourage students to turn this waste into prototypes of things they have imagined, designed and built.
More than 2,000 students participated in the program and created prototypes of everything from robots and carts to boats and planes, using nearly 700 kilograms of recycled waste. Students, according to the survey, developed their collaborative and interdisciplinary work skills and deepened their understanding of electronics and physics.
Test results show that students who participate in projects raise their grades, on average, by from 4.2 to 5.2, while at least 28 students remained in school when they were at risk of abandonment.
The Global Teacher Prize is awarded by the Varkey Foundation, under the patronage of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai. The information is from Agência Brasil.
