THE BEST TEACHER IN THE WORLD Have you ever heard of Maggie McDonnell? Although she is a teacher in a remote Inuit village in the Canadian Arctic, she is the winner of the 2017 Global Teacher Prize. She had been living in the village of Salluit, with a population of 1,300 people, for six years significant changes in the life of the community. The village can only be accessed 1.2. 1.1. she won the prize, but she had already brought about air, and in winter the temperature falls to minUs 25C. Life is not easy: in such an isolated place a lot of young people turn smoking, drinking and drugs. Women's lives focus mostly on domestic duties, and the number of teenage pregnancies is really high. Maggie created a Life Skills programme in order to turn her teenage students from problems to solutions. Some of the ideas in the programme were to build a fitness centre, to have all involved a lot of young 1.3. open a second-hand shop, and to manage a community kitchen, 1.4. people in the area. If you want to meet a life-changing teacher, Maggie McDonnell is definitely one of them.

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