The modern educational environment has long extended beyond school walls – children spend a significant portion of their time in digital spaces, social media, messengers, and online games. Along with opportunities, this brings serious online risks: ranging from cyberbullying and fraud to online grooming and digital extortion.
An educator is often the first adult able to notice changes in a child’s behavior in time and prevent a threat. To equip teachers, homeroom instructors, and school psychologists with clear and safe tools, a practice-oriented professional development program totaling 100 academic hours has been developed.
The main goal of the program is to build teachers’ professional readiness to recognize online threats, provide competent primary responses, and create a safe digital environment within educational institutions.
Key training areas:
- Risk Diagnostics and Recognition: how to distinguish an ordinary school conflict from cyberbullying or identify signs of a child being drawn into dangerous online communities.
- Safe Communication Rules (“Do No Harm”): how to initiate a supportive conversation with a child, avoiding blame, pressure, and re-traumatization.
- Urgency Assessment and Action Algorithm: a four-level threat assessment model (from consultation to critical level) and principles for minimal necessary digital data logging.
- School and Interagency Routing: a clear understanding of when and to whom to transfer information (administration, psychological service, CC 111, or emergency services) and how to continue pedagogical support for the child.
- Systemic Prevention: developing class hours and teaching children the basics of digital hygiene and cybersecurity without intimidation.
The program is strictly action-oriented: 76% of study time is devoted to practical sessions, real-case analysis,conversation modeling, and the development of local response algorithms for schools.