Results of the 1st round of the All-Ukrainian competition «Teacher of the Year-2026»

The 1st round of the All-Ukrainian competition «Teacher of the Year-2026» in the nomination «English» in the Zaporizhzhia region has ended. 22 teachers from the Zaporizhzhia region registered to participate in the competition.

English language teachers from the following secondary education institutions of the Zaporizhzhia region competed in the finals:
– Yuliya Bila, Bilenkiv Lyceum «Leader»
– Iryna Lutsova, Zaporizhzhia Gymnasium #11
– Oksana Overchenko, Zaporizhzhia Secondary School of Grades I–III #88

The finalists were congratulated by the vice-rector of the Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic Andriy Ivanchenko, the head of the jury Nataliya Zhukova, the director of the Zaporizhzhia Academic Lyceum Dmytro Koshel and the deputy head of the jury Larisa Strelets.

The victory in the regional round was won by Iryna Lutsova, who will represent the Zaporizhzhia region at the all-Ukrainian level of the Competition. Congratulations on the victory!

The expert jury worked in the following composition:
– head of the jury Nataliya Zhukova – acting. head of the department of foreign philology and translation of Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University
– deputy chairman of the jury Larisa Strelets – senior lecturer of the department of social and humanitarian education and pedagogy of education of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education
– secretary of the jury Iryna Sinchylo – English teacher of the Support Institution of General Secondary Education «Suzirya» Orikhovskaya of the city council
– Nataliya Kravchenko — English teacher at Lyceum No. 16 of the Melitopol City Council
— Olha Nesterova — foreign (French/English) language teacher at the Zaporizhzhia Lyceum No. 71
— Inna Pokusa — director, English teacher of the Melitopol Gymnasium No. 23
— Yurii Polezhaev — head of the cycle commission «Tourism, information technologies and foreign languages» of our Zaporizhzhia Humanitarian College, English teacher of Zaporizhzhia Academic Lyceum #93

Offline tests were held at the Zaporizhzhia Academic Lyceum No. 107, whose team, led by director Dmytro Koshel, provided comfortable conditions for the successful completion of the Contest finals.

We work together — we develop together!