In 2019 y. Melitopol became a flagship of news in spheres of education and youth work. The innovations, achievements of educators and youth workers of this city were not written by the most lazy. But we went further and made a video of our longtime friends and partners - Melitopol high school # 8 (director Olena Zameniagre) and Department of youth and sports of Melitopol city council (deputy head of department Tatiana Nesvat). In video ladies...
Zolotonosha, Chernihiv region
Thanks to the joined efforts of representatives of formal and non-formal education, training on school mediationwas held in In the Chernihiv region. Mediation is a constructive way of resolving conflicts at school, which, in addition, empowers students and teaches them to be more responsibile.
Several schools in the region met through the Democratic Schools network. Their representatives visited the...
Transformations of Melitopol specialised secondary school # 23 we have been observing since 2016. All this time, school staff is working on implementation of interactive methods of work, a cross-cutting approach to the development of pupils' civic competences, using the project approach in an educational process - both during lessons and in extracurricular work. Teachers and school administrators cooperate with different organisations and...
Mykolaiv, Mykolaiv region
School № 29 in Mykolaiv has been working on democratization of education and management practices and on development of civic competences of students for several years. Teachers use interactive methods, create their own activities that help developing civic competences along with the subject ones.
After attended the creative workshop of the program "Increasing the competences of democratic citizenship through...
Nizhyn, Chernihiv region
During the Student Self-Government Day, the students' parliament of Nizhyn School No17 identified its most pressing problems. When discussing them in detail during the “Analyze. Think. Suggest" activity, they concluded that it was necessary to create a school project "Let's say 'NO!' to bullying".
The next step was a meeting with the school administration, during which a series of activities on issues and...
Pyadyky Stepan Melnychuk Lyceum in Ivano-Frankivsk region demonstrates what can be achieved by uniting a school community around the common goal. A goal was to change an institution from the inside by creating a democratic environment, developing civic and social competences not only for the school youth, but also for parents and teachers. Vitaliy Kostyuk, director of the lyceum, and Maria Piddubrivna, teacher-organiser and youth worker,...
Oksana Salivonchyk - a youth worker and trainer of the "Schools for Democracy" programme - took part in an internship at the Regional Youth Centre in Kosice, where she have experienced how Slovak colleagues develop an interest in science among youth and actively implementing this experience in the Rivne region.
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Video was created as part of the project "Development of competences for Democratic citizenship through formal, non-formal and...
Oksana Polivchak is the head of the Center for Creativity of Children and Youth in the city of Zhydachiv, Lviv region, and a trainer of "Schools for Democracy" programme. She describes her experience of job shadowing at the Regional Youth Centre in Kosice (Slovakia) and shows, how she uses acquired knowledge and skills in her work: for capacity building of student school councils in the city and district, for setting up art spaces, and for...
Pyadyky, Ivano-Frankivsk region
The head of the Pyadyky Stepan Melnychuk Lyceum Vitaliy Kostyuk and a representative of the local non-governmental organization Maria Piddubrivna visited the Youth Centre in Kosice, Slovak Republic on ajob shadowing visit within the program "Increasing the competences of democratic citizenship through formal, non-formal and informal education".
After the study visit to Slovakia, the community of Pyadyky in...
Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia region
The city of Melitopol is known in Ukraine as a city of tasty cherries, but recently this city can be considered a model city for the successful combination of formal and non-formal education institutions for youth development. In this city of 150,000 people the youth centre is open for young people 24/7; this is the first youth space working 24/7 in Ukraine. Tetiana Nesvat, Deputy Head of Youth and Sports...
Oksana Chervyakova from Zolotonosha, Cherkasy region, works at the city office in the affairs of children, youth and sports, as well she is a trainer of "Democracy school" programme. Oksana took part in job shadowing at the Civis Polonus Foundation (Warsaw, Poland). As a youth worker, Oksana works with the city's schools, and schools-members of the "Democratic School" programme. The gained experience she is trying to realise in Zolotonosha and in...
Sarny, Rivne region
During her job shadowing visit to Slovakia within the the program "Increasing the competences of democratic citizenship through formal, non-formal and informal education", Oksana Salivonchyk, a youth worker and a trainer, was fascinated by the idea of combining formal and non-formal education for better development of science competences, more informed professional orientation and introduction of more interactive teaching...
How to build your own professional trajectory? How to organize work of the community administration, so that they cater for the needs of people of the community? What processes are managed by the local authorities? These questions can be answered by youth, which takes part in internships at the local government. They can make suggestions and inspire officials to make necessary decisions. Leaders of community created such an opportunity for...
Within the project "Development of competences for democratic citizenship through formal, non-formal and informal learning" an active exchange of experience and training of representatives of formal education - teachers, school administration, regarding the approaches and methods used in non-formal education was happening. Many of the ideas that were created during the program activities were implemented as projects in various schools.
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Zhydachiv, Lviv region
Students' self-government bodies are in every Ukrainian school, however, at times only on paper. The situation with student self-government can be very different within one city or community. Also, because students graduate and leave self-government, even good traditions can cease.
How can one understand that student self-government can and should deal with serious issues, not just leisure? How to learn to make...
Irpin, Kyiv region
Irpin School No 2 has been working for several years on introduction and deepening of democratic practices, with special focus on students.
The school is large, with over one and a half thousand students enrolled. Although the classes are happening in two shifts, it does not interfere with the active extra-curricular life of young citizens. Teachers and the school administration are working hard to create an...
Marhanets, Dnipropetrovsk region
In the city's newly created Love-Park, teachers and representatives of the students' parliament of Marhanets School No 3 organize a Democracy Festival, dedicated to International Democracy Day. An interesting program of activities attracted attention of the city residents and highlighted the notion of democracy. Everyone who wished could participate in the board game "DignityLand" and feel oneself in the shoes...
Myrhorod, Poltava region
Myrhorod school Helikon is known in its hometown for having an open and democratic atmosphere. The school lives in accordance with the idea "There are no bad students, there are almost no bad teachers: there are outdated teaching methods". The school staff is constantly on the lookout for learning approaches that will be appropriate and interesting for their students.
The whole team of Helikon School teachers...
