Yavor Hadzhiev is an English teacher in the town of Dolna Banya and a participant in Teach For Bulgaria’s program “A New Way to Teaching”. Last year in the beginning of the pandemic and at the start of the transition …
We have launched a series of publications about the projects and initiatives of Teach For Bulgaria alumni. This is the story of how Sci-High came to be. Sci-High is a program which provides professional support and training to teachers who …
Did you know that there are currently three to six thousand languages worldwide? And only approximately 200 countries? Simple math tells us that most countries are multilingual and that multilingual people outnumber monolingual people. What is more, multilingualism is a …
The story of how Raycho Raychev met a class of curious students online and inspired them to learn more about space Distance learning and all measures taken to limit the spread of coronavirus at school changed the normal dynamics of …
Or how to teach through real-life situations How often have you heard “Teacher, why do we have to learn this?” and how have you reacted? We are certain that sometimes teachers also ask this question and can’t always find satisfactory …
One of the pitfalls of teaching is that teachers unintentionally start doing everything for or even instead of their students sooner or later in their career. This is very easy to observe in a typical classroom: the teacher usually prepares, …
Teach For Bulgaria’s Summer Institute is an integral part of our program “A New Way to Teaching”. It lays the foundation for our participants’ work as teachers over the next two years. The six-and-a-half-week institute has a theoretical and practical …
Four principals shared their experience in testing new management practices at the online conference “From Vision to Results” Principals need a clear structure of what and when to test, space for reflection and discussion of the implemented practices, and a …
Teachers from Teach For Bulgaria’s community share in pictures Children haven’t started school yet, but their teachers are already in the classrooms. It is time for final touches before the school bell rings. We asked a few teachers who teach …
Model Schools – Teach For Bulgaria’s new program – starts with a two-week training on August 24 26 schools from across the country are going to participate in the first class of Teach For Bulgaria’s new program Model Schools. It …
And Foster the Development of 21st Century Skills in the Classroom These are two of the conclusions from the final conference of the EU project From Inclusive Education to Real Scale Transfer (FIERST). 300 teachers, principals, and education experts took …
Best Practices: 90 Secondary School in the neighborhood of Lyulin in Sofia (link in Bulgarian) and its smooth, organized transition to remote learning over just one weekend seen through the perspective of the geography teacher Gergana Cholakova (video in Bulgarian). …
Over 100 teachers were trained entirely online as part of the EU project FIERST Bulgaria has been in a state of emergency for 4 weeks now. In the meantime, schools have been instructed to organize a process of remote teaching …
In the second part of the article Bilingualism as a Strength we are going to share some tried and true best practices from the classrooms of Teach For Bulgaria participants. You can find the first part of the article here. …
Teach For Bulgaria and EducArt are developing a methodology for teaching Bulgarian as a second language. This project can have a great impact on minority children, Bulgarian students who live abroad, and their teachers “How am I supposed to teach …