NUS Hub and Education Promotion in Wartime: What Cluster 2 of Our Project Achieved in 2022
20.01.2023
New realities of 2022 have had an impact not only on education, but also on what to tell about education and how. Cluster 2 of the Learning Together project, which promotes education and the NUS reform, has adapted to the new realities too.
This article is about our education-related communications in the full-scale wartime context.
NUS hub
One of the most important projects of 2022 for us was the implementation of the NUS hub. We launched this web resource together with the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the Institute of Education Content Modernization and the European Edtech Alliance. It is symbolic that it started working on 1 June – the International Children’s Day.
The resource is divided into three parts: the NUS Resource Centre – for Ukrainian educators, Ukrainian Support Initiatives – for Ukrainians abroad, Learning Together – with news of the Learning Together project and detailed information about its activities. We collect educational technologies and educational materials to support Ukrainian refugees, practical hints, methodological materials, which are based on our webinars, textbooks, etc. on the website.
You can also read current news for educators, in particular, about the activities of the Learning Together project, which we share on a regular basis.
Supporting the MoES
Throughout the years, we have been supporting communication activities of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. In particular, this year we kept helping the Press and Information Department of the MoES to prepare press releases, regular dissemination information packages for school managers and teachers as well as other communication materials.
Raising awareness of the new Teacher Professional Standard
The communication campaign about the new Teacher Professional Standard has become one of the key ones for us in 2022. To make the campaign efficient, we adapted it and changed communication approaches and topics of articles with the ones that are more appropriate to the wartime.
Despite difficulties that we all face, thanks to our campaign more than 1.1 million people learned about the new Professional Standard and its key elements, another 58.7 thousand people got interested, commented and shared our posts in social networks.
As part of the campaign, we designed and produced 1800 Teacher Professional Development Diaries. Such a diary is a tool for self-development and motivation. It will help teachers monitor their success and development according to a specialized methodology, which is based on the Teacher Professional Standard.
The diaries have been already received by more than 700 educators from all over Ukraine, and we keep delivering them. We also produced 1,200 posters for teachers explaining how to use and implement the Teacher Professional Standard in their daily routine.
Newsletter «Our Steps»
In parallel, we also develop our own communication tools. Since last summer, the newsletter «Our Steps» informing about project news has been issued more often – every month. With its help, more than 800 readers regularly learn about our news, including our colleagues from the MoES, IECM, MFA of Finland and the Embassy of Finland in Ukraine, FCG, EU agencies, as well as education managers and educators of Ukraine, our partners – the UN, GIZ, EDUFI, House of Europe, etc.
If you too want to receive our newsletter every month, please write to us at project-ukr@fcg.fi, and we will add you to the list of recipients.
Monitoring and evaluation reports
Together with other clusters of the Learning Together project, we prepare reports based on the feedback received from our participants after each training, course and other project activities.
During 2022, we prepared 11 reports and processed the feedback from almost 3,500 respondents. Every feedback helps make our programs and courses even better.
Working with media
Working with key media that children’s parents and educators read, we published a series of longform articles that were read by more than 40 thousand Ukrainians.
Such media include, in particular, Ukrayinska Pravda. Life, osvita.ua, osvitanova.com, School Life.
Read about the results of other Clusters of our project at the following links: