Training for Trainers
At the end of October, 2019, 20 Police officers and 20 teachers from all over the Poland successfully completed Training for Trainers, designed for their needs and conducted within Horizontal Historical Education in non-discriminative Activities project.
Police training was composed of two parts, held the Polin Museum between June and October, 2019. The participants were lecturers from police academies and police officers acting as plenipotentiaries of district police commanders for human rights. The first part of the training concentrated on familiarizing the participants with manuals of anti-discrimination workshops that had been jointly prepared for the police by Kazerne Dossin, Anne Frank House and the Polin Museum.
The second part was devoted for overviewing the manuals, emphasizing changes and corrections, sharing of the ToT participants own experiences from using the manuals to conduct actual trainings. At the moment more than 25 activities, based on manuals, was organized by toT participants in their local police stations, and many more are planned for the future.
The training for teachers was divided into three parts, organized between April and October 2019.. All the participants received materials produced jointly by project partners and they role was to try them out in their schools and to make suggestions of necessary adoptions and changes. Then participants tried out the materials with their students and gave feedback to POLIN museum team involved in the project.
During last meeting participants shared their reflections on the usage of the manuals for teachers in their schools. All of them noticed that for the first time they felt they have a real voice on the shape and content of the material that supposed to be use by many Polish teachers.
