{"id":207366,"date":"2019-01-09T20:13:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T22:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=207366"},"modified":"2024-02-21T22:32:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T01:32:18","slug":"brazilians-shortlisted-for-education-award-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazilians-shortlisted-for-education-award-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilians shortlisted for education award in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The Brazilian teachers D\u00e9bora Garofalo and Jayse Ferreira are contending for the Global Teacher Prize 2019<\/a>. The prize is USD 1 million and according to the organizer Varkey Foundation<\/a>, it\u2019s the greatest of this kind\u00a0 for education. After more than 30,000 applications, 50 teachers were shortlisted. The project was created by the United Arab Emirates prime-minister and vice-president Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum (in the picture, handing the 2017 award to Andria Zafirakou, from the United Kingdom)<\/em>. The award ceremony will take place in March 24, in Dubai, UAE, as reported by Ag\u00eancia Brasil<\/em><\/a> this Wednesday (9).<\/p>\n

The award was created to highlight the importance of the educators, and the fact that their efforts deserve appreciation and celebration all over the world. It aims to acknowledge the impacts of the best teachers \u2013 not only on their students, but also in the surrounding communities.<\/p>\n

At the foundation site, we may find the finalists\u2019 profiles, where the story of D\u00e9bora Garofalo<\/a> is told; she overcame a challenging childhood of poverty and prejudice to train as a teacher. When she arrived at her school on the outskirts of S\u00e3o Paulo, Garofalo realized that the students were not receiving an education in technology that would equip them to thrive in the modern labor market. The school was under-resourced, and the children were suffering with the impact of their local environment, which was blighted by violence, unsanitary conditions and poverty.<\/p>\n

Garofalo started to train other teachers. Based on the study her students did about the neighborhood problems, such as poverty and violence, she developed technology projects. Holding open classes on waste management for the local community, D\u00e9bora Garofalo uses the creativity of \u201cmaker\u201d culture to encourage the students to turn this waste into prototypes of things they have imagined, designed and then built.<\/p>\n

Over 2,000 students have been involved in the program, turning more than 700kg of rubbish into something new. According to Ag\u00eancia Brasil<\/em>, the exam results show that students who participated in the projects increased their grades from 4.2 to 5.2, while at least 28 students have remained in hte school when they were at risk of dropping out.<\/p>\n

From Itamb\u00e9, Pernambuco, the other Brazilian finalist Jayse Ferreira<\/a> developed an art project in the Escola de Refer\u00eancia de Ensino M\u00e9dio Frei Orlando. Through movies and homemade films, the students could show their own reality, and the violence, poverty and discrimination in their daily lives.<\/p>\n

Local companies started to support the teacher\u2019s project, resulting in a video produced entirely by the students, which was viewed more than 20,000 times on YouTube in less than a week. The students made their second video tackling the risks of drink driving. After his work, university applications have increased dramatically, while school drop-out rates have dropped markedly, and the work was awarded locally and nationally.<\/p>\n

Other Brazilian educators were among the finalists in previous editions of the award. Read more here<\/a>, here<\/a>. and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n

Press Release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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