More than 9000 participants have already joined the “How to Teach Children Mine Safety” online course from Cultural Platform Zakarpattya NGO and UNICEF Ukraine
At the end of last year, the team of the Cultural Platform together with UNICEF Ukraine launched a free online course for educators, rescuers, and police officers on how to teach mine safety to children of all ages. Every month, hundreds of new specialists who strive to gain new experience in teaching and become effective safety guides for modern children join in from different parts of Ukraine!
The Online Course On Mine Awareness Is a Project That Helps Improve Safety Culture
“Together we are shaping the safety culture of Ukrainian children!” – that’s our motto for the current and future course-takers. The “How to Teach Children Mine Safety” online course is one of the key projects that the Culture Platform uses to implement its safety culture ecosystem (first developed in 2016).
Safety culture is an ethically humane worldview paradigm focused on creating and sustaining the mental and physical well-being of people, which is necessary for the understanding and cooperation of different generations of Ukrainians in the joint creation of a safe future.
“This Course Is Extremely Relevant” or Feedback From the Course Participants
The “How to Teach Children Mine Safety” online course was created to help all mine safety educators make the teaching process interesting and effective. Teaching to protect.
In the feedback, the participants most often note the insightfulness and practical usefulness of the educational materials. The experts of the course share specific approaches and tools aimed not just at conveying the information to a child, but also at fostering correct and safe behavior.
In addition, platform users appreciate the interactive learning format: the combination of short video lessons, study notes, and quizzes helps them stay more focused and interested throughout the learning process.
What do the State Emergency Service (SES) and the National Police of Ukraine representatives have to say?
Here is more feedback from educators:
Let’s Talk Numbers: How Many Educators, Rescuers, and Police Officers Are Currently Studying At the Course
The “How to Teach Children Mine Safety” online course is adapted for specialists from different domains. One of the versions is aimed at educators, while the other one targets SES and National Police representatives. Through that division, both audiences get the knowledge and practical instruments for mine awareness that they need in their field of work.
At bezpeka.info there are sign-ups from:
- 4400+ teachers;
- 4500+ rescuers and police officers.
On Achievements: How Many Participants Have Already Received Their Certificates
Studying in the online course doesn’t just provide new knowledge, tools, and guidelines for teaching mine safety. Each specialist who passes the final test receives a corresponding document on advanced professional training.
UNICEF and the Cultural Platform Zakarpattya NGO have already celebrated the successful completion of the course and issued certificates to:
- more than 1,100 educators;
- more than 3,200 SES and police personnel.
By the way, for a teacher, such a document equals 1 ECTS credit of 30 hours.
Regions Most Represented At the Course
There are no regions in Ukraine that haven’t taken part in mine awareness—the project has caught the attention of specialists from all over the country.
Among the SES and police representatives, the highest numbers of participants come from:
- Kyiv region;
- Lviv region;
- Kherson region;
- Kharkiv region.
The leading regions for educators are:
- Zaporizhzhia region;
- Kharkiv region;
- Kirovohrad region.
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Olena Smirnova-Kochetkova