Daugavpils Centra Vidusskola

The staff of our school is highly educated and is constantly raising its professionalism, skills and experience taking part in various professional development courses, seminars, workshops, conferences and social projects on the local and international levels. Our colleagues are very creative – they are full of ideas; enthusiastic – they are willing to share experience and ready to learn themselves; innovative – in raising students’ motivation and interest in studies; collaborative – working in team and reaching common goals. Participating in local and international projects gives us a unique opportunity to develop language skills, communicative competence and intercultural awareness. Our team consists of highly educated professionals, including pedagogy, project management, information technology and social psychology. We are open for international collaboration to promote European cohesion. Jurijs Visockis: he is the headmaster of Daugavpils Centre Secondary school and is in charge of many aspects, such as planning, school organisation, teaching, supervision, guidance, maintaining relations and general administration. Since 2011, he has been working as informatics, programming basics and technical graphics teacher. He is very creative, responsible and socially active. He is developping and establishing programmes for processing learning achievements and various electronic databases. He is affectively using the social media platforms for the school popularization in society. Tatyana Baranovska: Master of Biology, a lecturer (Daugavpils University, Latvia), a mentor and a school teacher (Biology, Chemistry, Science and Handicrafts) with 19 years of experience of working with children, youth, adults and families. She encourages and enables students to develop inquiring minds and curiosity about science and the natural world. Her working experience is very wide. She is a biology methodologist at the Innovative Experience School of the Latvian National Centre for Education; she is a member of the project group "Science and Maths” at the Centre for Curriculum and Examination; a head of Methodological Association of Biology, Chemistry and Natural Sciences in Daugavpils Education Department, Latvia. She is involved in the process of development, approbation and improvement of methodological materials. She has participated and led different projects and scientific research. She does volunteer job and an active member of the Latvian Red Cross to encourage respect for other human beings and a willingness to work together to find solutions to community problems. Galina Ostrovska: her experience includes working in secondary and vocational schools as biology and health studies teacher. She also has a long-term experience in local Municipality Police as a senior inspector of a preventive work with youth. She has been working as a social educator in our school since 2010. Her job involves diagnosing of socialising problems, identifying the social and economic problems of families, analysing the respect for the rights of children and young people in families, promoting the social needs of children, taking care of the safety and health of pupils and in developing and implementing of individual behavioural adjustment programmes. Aleksandra Truskovska: she is one of project coordinators and a certified English teacher, a debate coach, a lecturer at Medical college with 26 years of experience working with students. She teaches students to acquire the linguistic competence necessarily required in various life situations. She is experienced in European projects Erasmus+ and local ones to improve the quality and efficiency of education and training and to promote social cohesion and active citizenship. Natalja Kalinina: she is one of project co-coordinators as well and a certified English teacher with 23 year working experience. She is able to assess and evaluate student progress effectively.