Odesa schoolboy writes physics textbook for teachers

Odesa resident Ihor Romanovsky, who is diagnosed with cerebral palsy, wrote a physics textbook for seventh-grade teachers on his own.

The guy decided to create the manual when he could not find similar materials on the Internet, the Suspilne publication reported.

In the book, he collected lesson plans and recommendations on how to teach them. According to the student, he became interested in physics two years ago.

"Because it requires out-of-the-box thinking. You have to think broadly, and physics is everywhere in our lives," explained Ihor.

The teenager worked on the textbook for about five months. The boy's mother, Anna, said that she did not know about the book until her son showed her the finished result and added that Ihor had become interested in math two years ago and later switched to physics. Now Ihor Romanovskyi is working on a new textbook, this time on algebra.

This is not the first time that Odesa has been featured in the media for its achievements in teaching physics or for its search for new teaching methods. In 2021, Pavlo Viktor , a physics and computer science teacher at the Richelieu Lyceum in Odesa, was named one of the top 50 best teachers in Ukraine by the Global Teacher Prize Ukraine. He is the author of a popular Russian-language YouTube channel with physics lessons. He became famous (in October 2021, he had 850 thousand subscribers) thanks to his YouTube channel with physics lessons, where he teaches a full school course. Among his students, Viktor Pavlo began to practice remote learning by broadcasting his lessons on Skype. In 2010, he started posting his video lessons on YouTube. As of October 2018, his channel had over 8 million views and about 500 video lessons. In 2022, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy awarded the teacher the title of People's Teacher of Ukraine.

Кирило Бойко