Throughout March more than 300 students and 9 teacher from Ivano-Frankivsk vocational college of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University have undertaken educational thematic online workshops under the “Character International, Inc” programme. The workshops were held by the “Character International, Inc” programme educators John Cooke, doctor of psychological sciences, psychotherapist, professor (USA, Dallas, Texas) and Anna Dovzhenko, interpreter, head of the alternative learning center KAIZEN (Ivano-Frankivsk).
Among the subject areas were “Leadership”, “Conflict Management”, and “Character”. During the online workshops students-would-be teachers had a chance to study up conflict management strategies, applicable while communicating with colleagues, pupils, parents, etc. On completion of the workshops all participants were granted certificates.
For the last six years Ivano-Frankivsk vocational college of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University has been working in close cooperation with the Institute on Character Study “Character International, Inc” and organizing a number of workshops and training sessions for would-be teachers.