What awaits education after the coronavirus pandemic and how to support teaching during this period: registration for the EdCamp Teacher Training Conference will continue until April 10

Registration for the traditional EdCamp Teacher Training Conference has begun in Ukraine – this year it will take place 5 days in a row online. Participation in the national online marathon is free of charge. In addition, organizers will not pre-screen participants.

The five-day online conference will run from April 13 to April 17. You can register till 12:00 on April 10, 2020 via link.

“The teaching community now needs more support and attention than ever before. And it’s not just about the techniques and tools for working with students remotely. First and foremost, it is about supporting the emotional resource of educators, understanding the challenges they respond to every day. Conferences like EdCamp are a platform where we can discuss all the important issues, hear and understand each other. I want to thank the organizers who, despite the difficult situation in Ukraine and in the world, continue to work and do not lose optimism”, – Lubomyra Mandzyi, the temporarily acting Minister of Education and Science said.

The theme of the national online crisis EdCamp 2020 – “Keep five, education!” The organizers explain it as a shared desire for support, since people from almost all over the world are now avoiding unnecessary physical contact, such as shaking hands, and even more so needing each other’s support. “Keep Five!” Is the willingness of mutual support between teachers, parents and students.

“The involvement of parents in the educational process has never been as deep in our recent history as it is these days. It would be nice if it wasn’t so exhausting. Teaching is also depleted, as most educators have not dealt with distance education, do not have the usual ways of working and working. In addition, we are all living people who are concerned about how our economic situation will change, how not to lose our sanity in isolation, how the world will change after the pandemic, and how can we adapt to these changes? Actually, we will try to answer the questions that are of concern to both the teachers and the parents right now”, – EdCamp Ukraine NGO President Olexandr Elkin said.

During the webinars, the experts will not only give practical advice and comment on the changes introduced by the MES, but also explain how they themselves have experienced the quarantine they overestimated during this time, which they see the “world after”. In addition to education, the online marathon will discuss how to integrate the teaching and parenting communities to help Ukrainian physicians, and will offer specific useful actions.

Among the EdCamp-2020 speakers:

• the temporarily acting Minister of Education and Science Lubomyra Mandzyi
• 10th and 11th Ministers of Education and Science Lilia Grinevich and Hanna Novosad
• Director of the Ukrainian Institute for the Development of Education Vadym Karandiy and his deputy Natalia Sofiy
• Chairman of the Committee on Education, Science and Innovation in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Serhiy Babak and his Deputy Serhiy Koleboshin
• educational ombudsman Sergiy Gorbachev
• Ambassador of the United Nations Population Fund to Ukraine (UNPF Ukraine) Taras Topolya
• curator of the social project “Right to Education” Natalia Mosiychuk
• founder of the Foundation for the Development and Support of Young Art of Ukraine Slava Frolova-Group Vyacheslava Frolova
• EdCamp World Movement founder Hadley Ferguson
• teacher and journalist Esther Wojcicki
• the developer of the program of the emotional and ethical development of the child of Emory University Christa Tinari
• child and family psychologist Svitlana Royz
• national PISA coordinator in Ukraine Tatiana Vakulenko
• co-founder of the Prometheus Mass Open Online Courses platform Ivan Primachenko

The United Nations Population Fund in Ukraine was the main partner of the project. Events are supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Institute of Education Development, Educational Ombudsman of Ukraine.

Recall that online lessons for students in grades 5-11 quarantine start since April 6

Source: МESU