Detran applies pedagogical activities in schools in Belém
Pedagogical kit teaches about safe behavior in traffic
Children have been strong allies of the State Traffic Department (Detran) in building a safer traffic environment in Pará. With several fronts of action aimed at the youth audience, the agency has initiated another phase to make public roads a space for preserving life. This is the project Education that Transforms Lives, which aims to contribute to safe traffic through the civic education of teachers and students from public and private schools.
The first phase was carried out at the end of 2024 with the training of educators from public and private schools and the delivery of pedagogical kits to support the work of these teachers. Now, it is time for the second phase, which consists of applying activities and diagnostic assessments for the children. In practice, Detran's education agents visit the schools that have already received training and, with the help of educational material, apply pedagogical activities related to the theme of road safety.
On the morning of this Wednesday, the 20th, six classes from kindergarten I and II, 1st and 2nd grade of the João Carlos Batista Municipal School of Early Childhood and Elementary Education, in the Cabanagem neighborhood of Belém, were benefited by the action. For the younger children, Detran agents use drawings, figures, and educational paintings that teach norms and rules, such as the colors of the traffic light. For older children, the activity involves figures and didactic resources in which students must recognize the drawings related to traffic and the connections they have with each other, such as the traffic light and the crosswalk, the motorcycle and the helmet, etc.
The students are monitored by the agents, who assess the degree of ease or difficulty of each child in the process of understanding and learning and collect the activities for correction. Everyone receives the project book with other activities to be developed in the future by the teachers. “They are children aged 5 to 10 years, who are in the process of formation and who, if educated from an early age, tend to become conscious citizens in traffic,” explains Detran's educator, Geisa Tavares. According to her, so far 79 teachers have been trained and by September of this year, 1,616 children will be served by the project.
Teacher Darilene Raiol underwent training and today received the Detran team in her 1st-grade class. For her, the theme of safe traffic at school gains even more strength with the presence of the agency. “Our neighborhood has almost no signage, and when we approach this topic and teach, they say they will talk about it at home with their father and mother. So, the children are indeed our allies in traffic. And when Detran comes and makes this class different, they learn more and engage in the cause naturally,” she comments.
Six-year-old Tamires Soares was excited about the traffic light drawing. She said she has already learned the colors from the teachers and explained how to behave in front of each of them. “I cross at the crosswalk when the color is red, then the cars stop. The motorcycle can only go after people pass, and you have to wear a helmet to avoid hurting your head,” she teaches. Her classmate Pâmela Alícia, 7, says she liked Detran's activities because she learned how to ride a bicycle. “It was very fun today, I don’t have a bicycle, but I learned that you can’t cross without looking for cars.”
Seven-year-old Laura do Nascimento liked the theme so much that she even made a suggestion to teach her classmates. “My idea is to take a cardboard and make a car and a track so we can learn even more here at school. And also put up a signal and a person with a car and another without a car to learn how to cross without getting run over,” she suggested.
For now, the project is being developed in schools in Belém, but it should soon expand to other municipalities, such as Marituba, Benevides, Santa Izabel, and Castanhal.
