EU-funded project ‘Civic Education Ukraine’ is publishing its two main outputs in time for the project’s final conference on 8 February: the Teacher Training Guide and Teacher’s Resource Manual. Both have been approved by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the Project’s Partner, as well as the supporting 72-hout teacher training programme for both in-service and pre-service courses.

They will be accompanied by a CD ROM containing the text of both the Manual and the Guide and additional resource materials. A series of four workshops will be held in February to disseminate the materials, one in each of the project’s four pilot oblasts: Kyiv City, Volyn, Vinnytsa and Kherson. Copies will be distributed to the project’s 110 pilot oblast schools, Institutes of In-service Teacher Training (ITTIs), ITTI and rayon methodologists. pedagogical universities, libraries, teacher associations and other organisations and institutions. The materials will also be placed on the project’s website: www.civiced.org.ua.

Teacher’s Resource Manual

The Manual was developed by the project’s Curriculum Development working group in collaboration with other national and international experts; other project working groups made contributions to the Guide from their areas of expertise The development process started with an analysis of national normative documents, based on which the working group developed a table of civic competencies, detailing the target knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that students should acquire. The working group then arranged a series of workshops in each subject area to develop draft materials for the Manual, based on existing programmes of study and the competencies table. A further series of feedback workshops were held to discuss and improve the draft materials. Finally, a number of independent academic reviewers were also used to evaluate the materials.

Teacher Training Guide

The Guide was developed as part of the project’s Teacher Training component by the component working group and other national and international teacher development experts. Other project working groups also made significant contributions to the Guide from their areas of expertise. The development process included training workshops for In-service Teacher Training Institute methodologists (ITTIs) and pedagogical university lecturers, piloting in the project’s pilot oblasts as well as in non-pilot oblasts in ITTIs and pedagogical universities. Feedback workshops were held to discuss the results of piloting and improve the materials. Finally, a number of independent academic reviewers were also used to evaluate the materials.

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