Martín Salvetti, the Argentine teacher who has reduced school dropout and participates in the "Nobel of Education"

Martín Salvetti did not intend to teach, let alone be among the top 10 in the world. He started working as a tutor in the school where he graduated to pay for his studies, but little by little his pbadion has bewitched him.

Anxious to motivate his students, he created the first public school radio run by boys, and since then desertion dropped by 24%. Thanks to his idea, he was nominated for the "Nobel of Education" and is part of the Global Education & Skills Forum in Dubai, where this Sunday will be known the winner of the award.

The professor is working at Temperley's Technical School No. 5 "2 de Abril" and last month he learned that his name was on the list of 50 finalists in Global Teacher Prize Academy, known as the "Nobel of Education". Candidates were made up of teachers from 39 countries, then reduced to ten by a prize committee.

Salvetti was 45 years old and started as a preceptor at age 21 with some doubts about what he was doing. "Over time, being at the school where I was trained, I discovered what I liked, the course is where I feel good and what I can do. Teaching allows me to participate in the intellectual and emotional development of people and that's what I like, "said the professor.

He was then professor of engine mechanics, knowledge of materials and technical drawing. He is currently working at the head of the auto workshop. Two years ago, the project called "A car for a horse", which grants "motorbikes" to local workers who use horses to carry out their activities on the condition that they release the animals.

The appointment of Salvetti

However, the initiative that led to the international award organized by the Varkey Foundation was the creation of a school radio set up by the students and broadcast 24 hours a day. The initiative was launched during the 2001 crisis to motivate students to avoid dropping out of school.

"I do not take the radio because the guys have to be journalists, but like an educational tool"said the professor, who stressed that what mattered most in education was the motivation of the student:" If the child does not do anything in school, he is bored , and if he's bored, he's not careful and he's not paying attention, he's failing"

After the success of the project, several schools in the region came to visit and learn about the experience of Salvetti's students. "The most important thing that allows you is that it is a tool to interact with children in another way, it allows you to evaluate a facet that can not be translated into clbad," said the teacher in an interview with the Global Teacher Prize. Academy

After the nomination, the deputies from Buenos Aires of all the blocs have proposed to declare "Outstanding personality" from the province to the teacher. "Since 2001, on the radio in a technical school in Temperley, the teacher has succeeded in encouraging the creativity and work of students, dropping school dropout from 24% to less than 2%," said Marcelo, MP . Change.

"Salvetti is a pride of Buenos Aires because education is the main tool with which a person can go forward and what children learn will make them realize their dreams and allow them to be what they want to be in the future ", said the legislator, offer them a wider knowledge and pbad on to the children that they are themselves part of a community, "he added.

Hugh Jackman, the North American movie actor, was responsible for announcing the names of the selected ones: "When I was a kid, I wanted to be several superheroes, but I can tell you all about following, with the experience of my journey, that the real superheroes are the masters; they are the ones who change the world ".