Africa-Press – Cape verde. Helena Carvalho is a teacher who always tries to make a difference in the lives of her students. She chose this profession nearly twenty years ago, out of love for children, when she found herself torn between nursing and teaching.
“I say that it was the love for education that made me choose this profession for my life. I have always received a unique education at home and I wanted to pass this on to my children and the children in my community, so being a teacher was a way to achieve this”, highlights Helena Carvalho.
He began his first years of work teaching a small class in São João Baptista, a parish in the municipality of Ribeira Grande de Santiago.
teach with humanism
Four years later, she was transferred to her own community grouping, Safende, where she uses creativity and humanism to educate her students.
“Every day I observe that only teaching theoretical content is not enough for the education of children, so I use other teaching methods so that they can know how to be in society in a positive way”, he says.
Helena Carvalho thus provides moments of etiquette, leisure, outings and “I always reserve moments to talk to my students about other everyday matters in order for them to know how to behave in today’s society”.
everyone’s involvement
For this 42-year-old teacher, following the path of children’s socio-emotional development since elementary school is a “challenging task for teachers”.
Therefore, he argues that “an entire” community is needed to educate each child, especially “in this post-pandemic period, after a long time of isolation, without the face-to-face exchange of knowledge and new discoveries in the classrooms”.
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