Champions for children: teaching despite pandemics and shelling
Teachers in eastern Ukraine are continuing doing their job, despite shelling and the risks the seven-year-old armed conflict is posing. School staff along the ‘contact line’ are accustomed to being brave for children. But in the new school year, they also have to cope with new challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Four school staff…, Alla. Put on a mask and come to students in a good mood, Алла Alla Kostenko has been doing her dream job – teaching children – for over 30 years. But the last few years have been harder than primary school teacher could have ever imagined. “Our team never stopped teaching children, even under shelling,” says Alla, who works at a school near the ‘contact line’ in eastern Ukraine. “When they started…, Mykyta. Lockdown is not a vacation, Mykyta Mykyta Grabovsky, one of the youngest teachers at his school, found the transition to distance learning during lockdown a challenge for both himself and his students. “It was difficult, not because of the inability to work with equipment, but because of the availability of hardware,” says Mykyta, a teacher of physics and computer science. “…, Yuliia. Quarantine measures motivated to improve skills, Юлия Yuliia Shpylko says that children, their parents and her fellow teachers have had to get used to new school rules during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Unfortunately, the lockdown restrictions are serious and long-lasting,” says Yuliia, a teacher of mathematics and informatics. “This is a new form of existence, new rules for society. And we just…, Yuliia. Road to school must be safe, Учительница в автобусе For the second year running, Yuliia Tkachuk has been chaperoning students as they take the school bus from their village to the school on the ‘contact line’. She and her 12-year-old son are the first to board in the morning and the last to get off it in the afternoon. This year, during the COVID-19 epidemic, her main task…
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