📘 Results of the 2024–2025 Course: From Expectations to Achievements
(The journey is still ongoing, but the progress is already visible...)
In the 2024–2025 academic year, the inclusive education course continued to unite teachers, psychologists, social workers, students, and volunteers around the values of equality, tolerance, and educational justice. Participants aimed not only to acquire knowledge but also to develop sustainable and practical strategies to support children with special educational needs (SEN).
🔹 Participants' Expectations
At the beginning of the course, participants expressed their motivation to better understand inclusive interaction and to gain practical tools for working with children with SEN in their daily practice.
«I look forward to learning how to effectively build dialogue with parents of children with special needs. This is a daily challenge in my work»
— Preliminary survey, practical psychologist
«I want to learn how to explain inclusion to children in a simple and accessible language»
— Future primary school teacher
«This course is an opportunity to view education through the prism of humanity, not merely as a set of instructions»
— From the expectations questionnaire
🔹 Achieved Results
Після проходження курсу учасники відзначили зростання особистої відповідальності за створення інклюзивного середовища, розвиток навичок діалогу, адаптації освітнього простору та співпраці з родинами дітей з ООП. Підвищилася впевненість у реалізації інклюзивних стратегій у реальному навчальному процесі.
🔹 Scientific and Educational Achievements
A motivational calendar titled “Common Steps – Common Success” was created and presented.
A regional handbook “Social Inclusion: A Regional Guide” is currently being compiled and is expected to be completed by the end of the project.
Short annotated reports and module analyses will be integrated into a comprehensive analytical report under the EU Erasmus+ Jean Monnet project
Scientific publications based on the course activities include:
Features of synchronous and asynchronous e-learning on the example of teaching the European experience of social inclusion. ETR 2024, vol. 2, pp. 410-416. https://doi.org/10.17770/etr2024vol2.8074
The impact of online social communication on the training of social workers and educators (Ukrainian universities). ETR. 2024, vol. 2, pp. 74–78. https://doi.org/10.17770/etr2024vol2.8018
Pedagogical technologies of work with different categories of children with special educational needs in modern conditions: European approaches and Ukrainian experience. Training of specialists in preschool and primary education in the context of Ukraine's integration into the European educational space: A collective monograph. - Vinnytsia, 2023. - 106-127.
🎉 Events and Initiatives
Section at the All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference with international participation: “Inclusive education as an individual trajectory of personal growth for children with special educational needs.”
Summer School for professional development.
Simulation game “Together” (see separate analytical report).
Online counselling sessions for parents of children with SEN.
Online challenges:
“Ukraine in the European Space of Diversity and Tolerance” (Europe Day)
“#Don't_Hide_Your_Talent. Give Your Child Peace” (EU Talent Day)
Educational hackathon for experience exchange.
Volunteer legal project “Legal Submarine” for children with SEN.
Final press conference to mark the official closing of the project.
🗣 Participants' Feedback
«This course taught me not to be afraid of change. Inclusion is not about perfect conditions, but about paying attention to every child, every day»
— Preschool teacher
«I especially liked the section on working with parents — the specific action algorithms and situational modelling were extremely helpful»
— Practical psychologist, Kyiv region
«The exercises and simulations helped me understand the barriers faced by children with SEN. I now have a clearer sense of their daily challenges»
— Student, majoring in social pedagogy
«I didn’t expect an online course to be so in-depth and practice-oriented. I finally found answers to questions that had long troubled me»
— Participant of the online marathon
«This training inspired me to create an inclusive corner in our classroom. The children participated with great enthusiasm»
— Primary school teacher