15.05.2023

Operational Team conducts training on child and adolescent protection

By Lais Carvalho

Giving continuity to Beacon’s professional development actions, we gathered the entire Operational team for a Saturday full of exchange and learning.

Part of the day was dedicated to a training session on child and adolescent protection. There were group and small group sessions, separated by age according to the professionals’ roles at the school. The professionals learned how to identify the main types of abuse and, together, worked to define how to identify each one of them in the school environment, learning about what should be reported and to whom the information should reach, following the same training flow carried out with the pedagogical area professionals.

A second moment was dedicated to strengthening the relationship between employees through team-building dynamics, through which they raised issues such as non-violent communication, empathy, and trust. With dynamics, music, mime, and stories it was possible to address these issues with the engagement of all.

Finally, the whole team reflected on ethics in the workplace, discussing attitudes expected from a Beacon professional and also those that each one demonstrates and that are more inherent to each one’s personality. The questions were addressed through a very fun dynamic, which led all participants to reflect on the attitudes they practice and the ones they actually demonstrate. They also analyzed case studies that have happened at Beacon and compared everyone’s actions regarding the topics of conflict and diversity.

The school values moments of training so that it can align expectations, bring new knowledge, and share experiences, because it believes that at Beacon “we are all educators”.