Ukrainian is among top 10 of best teachers in the world for the first time

A participant from Ukraine has been included in the top 10 list of the best teachers in the world for the first time in the Global Teacher Prize awards, the most prestigious prize for educators.

Arthur Proidakov, a teacher of the Ukrainian language and literature and winner of Global Teacher Prize Ukraine 2021, has won this time as well, as reported by the Global Teacher Prize web page.

Arthur Proidakov wants to show the world through his achievement that Ukrainian teachers and education professionals continue to perform their duties properly even in wartime.

"It is very hard to believe and realise this. 10 people on planet Earth. 10 educators. And I, a Ukrainian teacher, in this top10. It inspires and motivates me," Proidakov said.

The teacher is from the town of Kadiivka in Luhansk Oblast which is temporarily occupied at the moment.

He resided there until November 2014, after which he worked in Sumy Oblast in a state school in the town of Romny, and then in the MIDGARD school in Kyiv.

After 24 February 2022 Arthur Proidakov organised Ukrainian language courses for internally displaced persons, and held classes within the framework of the All-Ukrainian timetable.

He is also the author of lessons in the All-Ukrainian School online and holds the position of executive director in the MriyDiy educational foundation.

"We have been developing the Global Teacher Prize movement in Ukraine for seven years, and during this time our teachers got on the top 50 list multiple times. But to be in the top 10 finalists is star level, the educational avant-garde.

These are the people [teachers who made it into the top 10 list – ed.] with whom world leaders will talk, without whom no single educational event can do, the people who positively influence education and inspire hundreds of thousands of teachers throughout the planet," said Zoia Lytvyn, founder of the Global Teacher Prize Ukraine.

The name of the word’s best teacher 2023 will be announced on 8 November in Paris at UNESCO headquarters.

The winner of the prize will receive US$1 million.

The Global Teacher Prize award is sometimes called "the Nobel Prize for teachers". It was founded by Indian billionaire and son of a schoolteacher Sunny Varkey.

The Global Teacher Prize Ukraine, an annual national award for teachers-agents of changes in the educational sector, was founded in 2017 with the goal of stressing the importance of teachers in Ukraine.

This year two Ukrainian teachers, Arthur Proidakov and Liudmyla Tabolina, have been included on the top 50 list of the best teachers in the world.

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