Stephen Fry Announces Doani Emanuela Bertan As A Top 10 Finalist | Global Teacher Prize 2020

Watch Stephen Fry announce Brazilian teacher Doani Emanuela Bertan as a top ten finalist for The Global Teacher Prize 2020. Ten teachers in ten weeks. They each deserve their moment in the spotlight.Who’s next?

Now, more than ever, we must shine a light on the world’s teachers.

Special education and Portuguese language teacher Doani Emanuela Bertan, from EMEF Julio de Mesquita Filho, Municipal Public School, Campinas, São Paulo, was shortlisted for the Global Teacher Prize 2020, after being selected from over 12,000 nominations and applications from over 140 countries around the world.

Doani Emanuela Bertan was inspired by her mother to become a teacher. When she graduated, she realised that Special Education was her passion, especially working with people with impaired hearing. She took the first step towards this vocation by taking a sign language course. Since 2008 Doani has been working as a bilingual teacher in Portuguese and Brazilian Sign Language. The school she teaches at is located in an area of high deprivation with high dropout rates. Doani, along with her colleagues began to look for new strategies to optimize learning.

Doani Emanuela Bertan teaches LIBRAS the Brazilian sign language system to her hearing-impaired students and began to promote video calls with them to answer their doubts and concerns on the daily classes.

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