Winners of the regional stage of the "Teacher of the Year of Belarus-2009" competition were determined in Vitebsk

April 10, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. The names of the winners of the regional stage of the republican competition of professional skills of pedagogical workers "Teacher of the Year of the Republic of Belarus-2009" were announced today in Vitebsk. Teachers of history, Belarusian language and literature, and primary school won the right to represent the region in the final in a tough competition, the correspondent of BELTA was informed at the Vitebsk Regional Institute for the Development of Education. 23 teachers from the region, who passed preliminary city and district rounds, competed for the title of the best teacher for a week. Among them were two male representatives - a teacher of labor training and technical drawing from the Rossony district and a computer science teacher from the Chashniki district, who managed to reach the final. However, women turned out to be stronger in this competition - they took all the podium places. The highest result - 347.2 points out of a possible 400 - was achieved by Irina Vykhodtseva, a history teacher at the Mazolovo school in the Vitebsk region with 9 years of experience, based on the results of all competition tasks. Only in the super-final did she lose the victory to Svetlana Emelyanova, a primary school teacher at school No. 19 in Orsha, who was almost on par (342.6 points). The third result in the regional competition was shown by Galina Sukhova, a teacher of Belarusian language and literature at Vitebsk Gymnasium No. 5, who scored 317.8 points. The tasks of the regional stage included a creative self-presentation competition, psychological and pedagogical testing, open lessons with students of gymnasiums of the regional center, a pedagogical quiz, improvised mini-lessons on the stage of the Institute for the Development of Education, and the defense of an author's educational project. -0-