Dear Justin
Thank you for your intereston public education in Iran. I believe we have lots of common knowledge for sharing. Public Education in Iran had been started by the establishment of International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology ( IIEES) in 1989. Public Education Department activities of IIEES from the start has been concentrated mostly on school children by inserting materials about earth, earthquakes and safety in the school textbooks by coopration of Ministry of Education, and the first book titeld " Earthquake Preparedness had been published on 1993 for third grade secondary schools and first and second grades of high schools.I think my paper on "Iran's School Earthquake Safety Initiative" which has been published by RDD Vol. 28, N0. 2, Autumn 2007 is a good explanation on what has been done on schools Safety programs in Iran so far.This paper is a joint paper by me and Professor Ashtiany , Mr. Seif and Miss. Heshmati.
Since most of the materilas have been produced for internal use so they are in Pesian but i will send some picture of our activities soon.
I am pleased to participate this site. Here in Brazil, is still being born a culture of prevention. I am a professor in Brasilia and I am researching how to teach prevention of disasters on children. I plan to soon, start the Masters. Now appreciate your help.
Dear Justin,
I have tried to put our video on the network but still have technical problem since last month. Is it possible if I send our film to your mail address and you help us to add them?
Hi Justin
I noticed the following link in ADPC website.
http://www.adpc.net/v2007/
"Mainstreaming Disaster Reduction in the Education Sectir.. in Lao PDR, Philippines and Cambodia" (April 2008).
It might be worth of uploading in the site.
Cheers
Yasamin
Replying to your comment to me, it is an honor for me to able to share my experiences regarding to school safety program in Indonesia's prone areas. I hope my experiences are useful to save children in other prone areas.
You asked about how 'What's the Plan Stan' was disseminated.
Firstly, it was sent free to all schools in New Zealand, supported by a launch ceremony and advertisements in teacher publications. Some Civil Defence Officers round the country already had good contact with their local schools, so they were able to promote the new resource.
Secondly, we had a couple of rounds of workshops for teachers all over the country. These were advertised in the Education Gazette, and also promoted by local Civil Defence Officers, and so were well attended.
Thirdly, the resource is kept alive by having some sort of update each year - one year we produced a storybook and accompanying audio CD, last year we produced a version in the Maori language, and this year we're doing a full upgrade of the whole resource to align it to the new national curriculum.
I'll take a look at your UK resources over the next few days.
Dear Justin,
Thanks for your message. Yes, I agree with you. I am working in the development context which is very different from teaching environment in the west. In general, teachers’ qualities and motivation are low due to lack of resources and quality training for teachers. These teachers need a vision of what their teaching can bring to the children. From my experience, “Vision making” is one of the most important factor for building teachers’ motivation towards their teaching in general, which is beyond any particular methodologies or mechanisms. It is the basic principle, which most ToT training underestimate.
Imaginative and innovative teaching resources and tools can excite teachers who once upon the time enjoyed being a teacher. They get excited to think how children would react with exciting new teaching materials such as picture books, films or games. These materials can increase the motivation of teachers and of course for students as well.
As for specifically DRR education, most important thing is whether teachers can relate to the topic as you said. If they think that DRR has no relevance to their life, then whatever you try to do is waste of time. At the same time, giving a lecture of global warming /climate change and try to make them aware that it is relevant to their life, it is far too large for them to grasp in their daily reality that they just feel pessimistic, and they feel powerless. In my project, I am very careful with using an example of global climate change, because it often causes pessimism rather than optimism for change though DRR education. Instead we try to use very local examples which they can directly relate to and feel that they can make a difference.
DRR education is not a rocket science in my opinion. It is about how to reduce risks in their lives and try to learn how to save their lives in the event of disaster. Technicality of how to teach is not so much of the issue. As long as individuals feel the urgent need for DRR information, simply to save their lives, save their loved ones, DRR education would work effectively.
This is only my experience in LDCs context. Hope it would be any use to you.
You said : 'Great photographs...There must be a story there...Why don't you share your experiences on the site and link to the photographs?'
Yup Justin. I would like to share my experience and method in edu-drr for the children, but my problem is I'm not so fluent to write it in English. Anyway, thanks to your advice, then I would like to try it.
im interested to join this web, please help know more on how to be approve by the board or any screening committee, my name is emmerando martin p cruz of pasig elementary school. my email is marpcruz@yahoo.com iam the school's safety and evacuation training officer.
this morning our school join the national program of earthquake drill, which we were practicing for the past few months, with a population of almost 4,000, of a two five story building, we manage to finish the evac at 3mins and 55sec. w/o injury and casualty. sometime this week ill try to up load my narrative report on ti that was also submitted to our division office.
thanks justin, anyway ill be meeting my co teacher tomorrow and help assist of the uploading, what is your usual time of online on this site so that i could communicate briefly on information of that concern boht of our interest
Hi Justin. Thanks a lot. I'm writing up my thesis at the moment so I'm coming across stuff all the time. I'll be to sure to share anything good. We are not doing so well with DRR education in Australia it seems. Lost of room for improvement. There still seems to be an overriding perception that kids can't do much. Which we all know is far from the truth! Best, BT
Justin,
I did a detailed research on cyclone risk and role of natural buffers like mangroves, casuarinas, or man made structures like dikes in reducing the risk to lives. I found mangroves playing a very strong protective role and reducving risk to human lives by more than 50%. Of course, I analysed total deaths and total human population at risk in the study area.
Farokh Parsizadeh
Thank you for your intereston public education in Iran. I believe we have lots of common knowledge for sharing. Public Education in Iran had been started by the establishment of International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology ( IIEES) in 1989. Public Education Department activities of IIEES from the start has been concentrated mostly on school children by inserting materials about earth, earthquakes and safety in the school textbooks by coopration of Ministry of Education, and the first book titeld " Earthquake Preparedness had been published on 1993 for third grade secondary schools and first and second grades of high schools.I think my paper on "Iran's School Earthquake Safety Initiative" which has been published by RDD Vol. 28, N0. 2, Autumn 2007 is a good explanation on what has been done on schools Safety programs in Iran so far.This paper is a joint paper by me and Professor Ashtiany , Mr. Seif and Miss. Heshmati.
Since most of the materilas have been produced for internal use so they are in Pesian but i will send some picture of our activities soon.
Best Regards
Farokh Parsizadeh
Aug 18, 2008
Leôncio Vieira
I am pleased to participate this site. Here in Brazil, is still being born a culture of prevention. I am a professor in Brasilia and I am researching how to teach prevention of disasters on children. I plan to soon, start the Masters. Now appreciate your help.
Regards,
Leôncio Vieira
Oct 9, 2008
Lany Verayanti
I have tried to put our video on the network but still have technical problem since last month. Is it possible if I send our film to your mail address and you help us to add them?
Oct 13, 2008
Yasamin O. Izadkhah
I noticed the following link in ADPC website.
http://www.adpc.net/v2007/
"Mainstreaming Disaster Reduction in the Education Sectir.. in Lao PDR, Philippines and Cambodia" (April 2008).
It might be worth of uploading in the site.
Cheers
Yasamin
Feb 21, 2009
Prasetio Wijaksono
Replying to your comment to me, it is an honor for me to able to share my experiences regarding to school safety program in Indonesia's prone areas. I hope my experiences are useful to save children in other prone areas.
cheers
Prasetio
Mar 23, 2009
Roly Hermans
Firstly, it was sent free to all schools in New Zealand, supported by a launch ceremony and advertisements in teacher publications. Some Civil Defence Officers round the country already had good contact with their local schools, so they were able to promote the new resource.
Secondly, we had a couple of rounds of workshops for teachers all over the country. These were advertised in the Education Gazette, and also promoted by local Civil Defence Officers, and so were well attended.
Thirdly, the resource is kept alive by having some sort of update each year - one year we produced a storybook and accompanying audio CD, last year we produced a version in the Maori language, and this year we're doing a full upgrade of the whole resource to align it to the new national curriculum.
I'll take a look at your UK resources over the next few days.
Mar 23, 2009
Sae Kani
Thanks for your message. Yes, I agree with you. I am working in the development context which is very different from teaching environment in the west. In general, teachers’ qualities and motivation are low due to lack of resources and quality training for teachers. These teachers need a vision of what their teaching can bring to the children. From my experience, “Vision making” is one of the most important factor for building teachers’ motivation towards their teaching in general, which is beyond any particular methodologies or mechanisms. It is the basic principle, which most ToT training underestimate.
Imaginative and innovative teaching resources and tools can excite teachers who once upon the time enjoyed being a teacher. They get excited to think how children would react with exciting new teaching materials such as picture books, films or games. These materials can increase the motivation of teachers and of course for students as well.
As for specifically DRR education, most important thing is whether teachers can relate to the topic as you said. If they think that DRR has no relevance to their life, then whatever you try to do is waste of time. At the same time, giving a lecture of global warming /climate change and try to make them aware that it is relevant to their life, it is far too large for them to grasp in their daily reality that they just feel pessimistic, and they feel powerless. In my project, I am very careful with using an example of global climate change, because it often causes pessimism rather than optimism for change though DRR education. Instead we try to use very local examples which they can directly relate to and feel that they can make a difference.
DRR education is not a rocket science in my opinion. It is about how to reduce risks in their lives and try to learn how to save their lives in the event of disaster. Technicality of how to teach is not so much of the issue. As long as individuals feel the urgent need for DRR information, simply to save their lives, save their loved ones, DRR education would work effectively.
This is only my experience in LDCs context. Hope it would be any use to you.
Best regards,
sae
Apr 13, 2009
Katee Tsai
May 22, 2009
Rebecca Carr
Jul 20, 2009
Rebecca Carr
Jul 20, 2009
alex candra widodo
Yup Justin. I would like to share my experience and method in edu-drr for the children, but my problem is I'm not so fluent to write it in English. Anyway, thanks to your advice, then I would like to try it.
Aug 2, 2009
emmerando martin p. cruz
Dec 2, 2009
emmerando martin p. cruz
Dec 2, 2009
emmerando martin p. cruz
Dec 2, 2009
emmerando martin p. cruz
Dec 2, 2009
emmerando martin p. cruz
Dec 3, 2009
Yasamin O. Izadkhah
Also to all the EDU4drr members.
Yasamin from Iran
Dec 21, 2009
Rebecca Carr
Jan 29, 2010
Briony
Feb 4, 2010
Louise Sharpe
Feb 20, 2010
Saudamini Das
I did a detailed research on cyclone risk and role of natural buffers like mangroves, casuarinas, or man made structures like dikes in reducing the risk to lives. I found mangroves playing a very strong protective role and reducving risk to human lives by more than 50%. Of course, I analysed total deaths and total human population at risk in the study area.
Jul 12, 2010