Stage II.

The first acquaintance of Ukrainian specialists with the proposed method happened during instructional training in October 2006 in Gliwice, Poland. During intensive assignments, workers of the KANA Catholic Youth Education Center presented their way of creating the Teach-IT.net method and also acquainted the Ukrainians with the experience of introducing the method in Poland. The participants of the Ukrainian groups, in addition to teachers of informatics, were representatives of regional boards of education of Ukraine, centers of post-diploma improvement, and trainers and experts from similar educational programs.

A wider presentation of the method and the whole Teach-IT.net in Ukraine program in a Ukrainian educational environment happened in a well-attended educational conference in December 2006, conducted on the premises of the Ukrainian Catholic University. The result of this was gaining sincere supporters for the method in the persons of directors of Lviv regional boards of education: Nadia Oksenchuk, head of the Board of Education of the Lviv City Council, Pavlo Khobzei, head of the Main Board of Education at the Lviv Regional Administration, and Roman Shyian, director of the Lviv Region Institute of Post-Diploma Pedagogical Education. A sure achievement of this stage was the agreement of Professor Natalia Morze (Kyiv) and Nina Dementiyevska (Kyiv), authoritative theoreticians of education in the field of modern technologies, to participate in the program as direct adaptors of the Ukrainian version of the method.

Other achievements of the second stage of the program were: equipping a modern computer classroom in the new corpus of the Ukrainian Catholic University, the creation of a work group of executors of the project, developing the program’s web-page, conducting a number of presentational meetings and an all-Ukraine educational conference, and what is most important, gaining sufficient experience and vision to speak with confidence about the future of the program in Ukraine.