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Getting Started
Finding Your Way
What to Expect
Assessing Learning
Extend & Contextualize
Let's Go!
Meet Your Instructor
Course Goals
Guiding Questions
Course Flow
Child Protection & Safeguarding - what's the difference?
FREE PREVIEWTrigger warnings and safety disclosure
Course Timings: Planning Your Time
Tool: Learning Log
Welcome & Definitions
What is child protection and what are children's rights?
International vs local schools
Vulnerability of International Schools
What is the International Task Force for Child Protection and why was it created?
Child Protection in Numbers & Elements of a Child Protection in Schools Framework
Case for Reflection
Online Interaction
Learning Log: Reflect, Process & Apply
Chalk Talk Protocol
Welcome to Module 2
Myths and Truths about child abuse
What is child abuse?
Exercise: Signs and Indicators
Analyzing our Student Body
Risk Factors & Impacts for Abuse
The Neuroscience Behind ACES
Resilience factors
Discussion: Improving Protective Factors & Positive Experiences for Children in School-settings
ACES Infographics
Child Protection Case vs Child Protection Concern
Learning Log: Reflect, Process & Apply
Welcome to Module 3
Trauma & Racism
Visible and invisible disabilities & Trauma
Trauma & LGBTQIA+ Phobia
Online Interaction
Learning Log: Reflect, Process & Apply
What will you be able to do upon course completion?
Understand child protection issues and the schools’ responsibility in protecting children from abuse, including debunking myths and evidence-based trends in child protection.
Understand abuse, the myths in light of laws, values, culture, learning environments, and individual roles and responsibilities.
Identify essential components of internationally recognized child protection best practices.
Identify how to act as a first responder and understand where and how to properly report potential child protection concerns both within your school context and in your personal surroundings.
Demonstrate knowledge about appropriate behaviors, attitudes, and actions when interacting with children in different face-face and online scenarios.
Directly impact your own professional practice to play your part in protecting children in your own context.
How will this course have a positive impact?
What are you still wondering?
Yes. Certification is awarded by MiniPD, from Faria Education Group.
You will need to complete all modules, learning activities in practice, and checking for understanding final assessment.
You will be awarded the Certificate of Completion in 'Strengthening Child Protection Practices in International Schools'.
MiniPD is partnering with Kent State University, a R1 university in the United States, to grant graduate credits for completing MiniPD courses. To receive graduate credits, the learner must complete a required number of MiniPD Core or MiniCourses, and submit the completed MiniPD Learning Logs for each course. Details of the credit application process can be found at https://www.kent.edu/ehhs/offices/pd/minipd-courses. Please check with your license issuing authorities for details on the number of credits needed for your license renewal.
You will be presented with suggested pathways to support continued learning. These will include carefully designed resources, MiniCourses, and personalized coaching conversations.
We can support you to implement this course in your own school with suggested approaches for interleaved professional development days, professional learning communities, and ongoing job-embedded peer learning structures.