Russia (bbabo.net), - Everyone in the agricultural town of Mezhisetki, Mogilev District, knows Andrei Trey, a 30-year-old geography teacher. He always has an answer to the most tricky question of inquisitive countrymen. And at the geographer's lessons, even the notorious "middle peasants" feel like pioneers of new lands.

The path to the profession began for Andrey with the knowledge of local geography. Born in the Vitebsk region, in the village of Parafyanovo, Dokshitsy region. When he was ten years old, the family moved to Tishovka, Mogilev region. There, in a suburban village, there was a school, but my mother enrolled them with their younger brother Alexander in the city, located on the outskirts. So they walked every day for three kilometers back and forth, until they received certificates. After school, he entered the faculty of natural science of Mogilev State University named after A.A. Kuleshova.

- In my fifth year, when I was doing practice at the Mogilev gymnasium, I realized that I wanted to be a teacher, - says Andrey. - After graduating from the university, I had a choice: to become a geography teacher or to engage in scientific and pedagogical activities. Long thought and chose the first.

An excellent student, the first in the lists for distribution, the guy could, of course, stay in Mogilev. The regional center, career growth, city pleasures... But geographers, after all, are romantics at heart, not pragmatists. And Andrei went to the Mezhisetskaya secondary school, 12 kilometers from the city, where he has been working for the eighth year. Here, in the agro-town, he lives - in a rented apartment. He says he's happy with everything and wouldn't trade his school for anything. In Mezhisetki, he assures, the educational process is no worse than in city gymnasiums.

The key to the guys managed to pick up quickly.

- As you know, children are restless and curious. I try to direct these qualities in the right direction. Less classes in the office - more movement, practice, impressions, - Andrey shares his professional secrets.

An excellent student, the first in the distribution lists, Andrey could have stayed in Mogilev. But geographers are in the soul of romance, not pragmatism

Often gives lessons in nature. He teaches high school students to make soil cuts, and studies biodiversity in the field with elementary school students. The school cooperates with the Geological Museum of the Mogilev State University. Andrei takes the guys there on excursions so that they can see with their own eyes, and not in pictures, the rocks, touch them with their hands. In the classroom, she uses new technologies, for example, elements of augmented reality. With the help of special applications on the phone, students have the opportunity to add digital objects to the physical world, for example, turn a virtual globe. It's no secret that today many children are addicted to gadgets, and Andrey benefits from this "telephone sickness". Additional classes - trainings for the Olympiads - are held at home: with tea parties, discussions of news.

Olympians are Trey's professional strong point.

Three of his students were awarded diplomas at the final stage of the Republican Olympiad and competition of scientific papers in geography, 11 diplomas were brought from the regional stage and at least 50 from the district. Andrei is sure that it is possible to prepare an Olympiad participant not only from a student with outstanding abilities. So Alexander Shunko was never an excellent student, but thanks to his teacher he became interested in geography, won various competitions and olympiads, and reached the republican level. This year, the guy graduated from high school, entered the Faculty of Geography of the Belarusian State University, is studying in a prestigious specialty related to space and aerial mapping.

The teacher regrets one thing: that today geography is for some reason classified as a secondary subject - it is given only 1-2 lessons a week in schools, and when entering universities, entrance tests in geography are provided only for specialized specialties, and even at faculties where train professionals in the field of tourism. So it turns out that even graduates of prestigious universities are poorly versed in the geography of their country, sometimes they can hardly imagine where they will have to work by distribution.

Andrei hopes that over time his subject will still take its rightful place in the school schedule. In the meantime, he raises his prestige by his own example. In the autumn of last year, he became a laureate of the competition of professional skills of pedagogical workers "Teacher of the Year of the Republic of Belarus". She actively cooperates with the Mogilev Regional Institute for the Development of Education, gives master classes - now, due to the pandemic, mostly online.

As a true naturalist and nature lover, Andrey prefers to spend his holidays on foot and bicycle tours in his Mogilev region. And usually together with students, because I'm not used to dividing time into work and personal.

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