Theme: 21st Century Education: Innovating Education in Ukraine

Through the spirit of innovation and collaboration, TEDxIvanaFrankaStED seeks to promote and foster 21st Century Education in Ukraine by facilitating a series a talks from Host Country National educators, community members, and students, in addition to a few United States Peace Corps Volunteers. This will be the first TEDx ED event in Ukraine, and we are certain that this will not be the last!

TEDxIvanaFrankaStED’s 2017 theme focuses on the integration of the core competencies defined under the term “21st Century Skills”. These core competencies are commonly classified as critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity.
Through the integration of the core competencies the classroom teaching paradigm shifts to a naturally more innovative approach, which moves beyond simply focusing on basic student competency, to focusing on promoting student understanding of academic content at much higher levels.

Thank you for your interest and support! We invite you to stop back and check our event page for additional information as we move closer to the day of the event!

ЮНІСТЬ БУКОВИНИ
Chervonoarmiis'ka St, 5
Chernivtsi, Chernivets'ka Oblast', 58000
Ukraine

Alyona Hlyvko

Deputy of the Chernivtsi Oblasna

Alyona Hlyvko, was born in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. She has an MA in international relations, and is actively engaged in her community. Currently, she is the Deputy of the Chernivtsi Oblasna. Alyona is passionate about education, and fostering 21st Century Skills in both students and faculty.

Anastasia Senchuk

Foreign Languages Student

Anastasia Senchuk is a fourth-year student at Chernivtsi National University. She is majoring in foreign languages (English- Ukrainian translation). Senchuk was a FLEX alumna of 2013-2014 and a FLEX City Representative in Chernivtsi in 2016-2017. Currently she is the Head of the NGO “Vyzhnytsia Youth Blok” and a member of the Students’ Parliament. She is passionate about traveling, reading, attending different conferences as well as meeting people and learning new things.

Joey Fordyce

English Language Fellow in Odessa, Ukraine

Joey Fordyce is an English Language Fellow working with both pre-service and in- service teachers in Odesa. She has over 10 years of combined TEFL experience teaching in Taiwan, Spain , Greece and Ukraine. In addition to a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics and a Bachelor of Arts in Intercultural Communication, Joey has also completed multiple TEFL training seminars and has a CELTA certificate from IH Barcelona. In the United States, Joey holds an elementary education teaching certification and is endorsed to teach English Language Learners (ELL) K-12 in the public-school system. She is passionate about teaching and providing relevant professional development workshops to others who have the same passion for education.

Ludviga Tsurkan

Headmistress of School 41, Chernivtsi, Ukraine

Ludviga Tsurkan, Headmistress of School 41, Chernivtsi, Ukraine,has been working as a headmaster of Chernivtsi Specialized Jewish School #41 for 10 years. She is the head of two experimental groups of teachers at her school for the introduction of technological education, and the support STEM laboratories at school.

Luis` Perea

English Language Fellow at Mykolaiv National University

Luis Perea is currently an English Language Fellow teaching English for Academic and Communicative Purposes at the Mykolaiv National University. He also is involved in helping and teaching ACCESS Program Ukrainian students. He has over 12 years of teaching experience working with elementary, middle, high school, and university students. He has also trained prospective ESL teachers and taught English for Medical Purposes to doctors and nurses. He possesses over 12 years of experience in the creation of language assessments for different states in the US and countries. He holds a BA in teaching English & Linguistics from the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico; a MEd in teaching English & Spanish and a MA in TESOL/Applied Linguistics, both from Portland State University, USA. He has also pursued studies in Ancient Roman Archaeology and Classical Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Oksana Torubara

English Language Teacher

Oksana Torubara is an English teacher and University lecturer with more than 15 years of experience in the TEFL field. She holds a PhD in Professional Education and is an Associate Professor of the Foreign Languages Department in Taras Shevchenko National University “Chernihiv Collegium”. She is keen on continuous professional development and bringing innovative teaching techniques to TEFL classroom. Torubara’s main professional achievements of the year would be participating in “Teaching Lexically” during summer school with Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley (London, 2017), participating in “CAMP L.E.A.D,” organized by The United States Peace Corps (Zalishchyky, 2017) and EdCamp Ukraine (Kharkiv, 2017).

Oleg Khaynatskiy

Teacher of English

was born and raised in Kyiv. He began learning English at three years old. He graduated from Kyiv National Linguistic University, and during that period studied in the USA while visiting lectures in Oklahoma and Cleveland State Universities. He worked at KNLU for 6 years as a lecturer and participated in many conferences throughout Ukraine, organized by TESOL, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, the Embassy of the Unites States of America and others. He was invited to work for a media company as a project manager, where his duty was to deal with foreign performers and to accompany them while they were on sets. Now, Khaynatskiy works for a private language school “Native English School” and Production Company “FILM.UA”. He loves traveling, meeting new people, discovering new things and learning everyday.

Svitlana Kurysh

Chief English Language Methodologist, Chernivtsi In-Service Teacher Training Institute

Svitlana has been coordinator of teaching English in the Chernivtsi region for 15 years, cooperating with British Council and The United States Peace Corps in Ukraine.

Todd Gable, Jr.

United States Peace Corps TEFL Volunteer

Before coming to Ukraine, Todd worked as a New York City Public High School Teacher in The Bronx. He eventually made his way to Thailand and Myanmar to teach English Language. Now he has been living in Zalishchyky, Ternopilska Oblast, for the last year working as a Teacher and Methodologist at Zalishchyky State Gimnasia. As a hobby, Todd enjoys baking desserts learned from his time spent working in a French Bakery. He also enjoys taking piano lessons, studying Ukrainian Cooking and spending time with his students.

Vladyslav Kachur

English Language Teacher

Vladyslav Kachur, English and German language teacher at gymnasium #6 of Vinnytsia City Council, has been studying humanistic approaches to teaching English since his time at Vinnytsia State Teacher Training University. He is interested in educational innovations as the means for humanization of educational process. He was among the top-5 finalist at Global Teacher Prize Ukraine 2017, the laureate at the national final stage in All-Ukrainian Contest “Teacher of the Year 2016” (among English teachers) and “Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Expert” in 2015.