In May 2023 Erasmus+ Courses Croatia is returning back to one of the most magical places in the world – Iceland!
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Help your learners reach their potential and ensure their bright future! This Erasmus+ KA1 course has been designed for teachers who wish to enhance vital 21st century skills in their learners. These include critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, innovation, effective communication, and entrepreneurship.
Critical thinking has been identified as one of essential life skills. It enables students to think rationally, clearly, and most importantly – independently. This is why it’s important to teach them to become analytical, practice the ability to carefully examine information, interpret data and question evidence. One of the crucial critical thinking skills is problem solving, which involves analyzing a problem and coming up with practical solutions through clarification, collaboration, evaluation and decision making. Through an Escaperoom workshop, you are going to exercise your problem-solving skills and learn about techniques you can later use in your classroom.
Participants of this Erasmus teacher training course are going to explore how emotional intelligence influences our relationship with ourselves and others. High emotional intelligence positively impacts social skills crucial for successful communication and employment, and it is directly connected to good leadership and entrepreneurship competences. You will also gain knowledge on how to boost creativity, imagination and innovation with powerful techniques of storytelling and drama. Participants will be discussing ideas, exploring various case studies, working in groups as a team and sharing examples of good practice.
Through workshops organized around game-based activities, you will learn how to completely transform your teaching and make it challenging, rewarding, interesting, active and 100 % fun. You will be introduced to innovative teaching and learning platforms like Plickers and JeopardyLabs to create a motivating and fun environment in your classroom, as well as be familiarized with applications that facilitate successful student assessment. You are also going to explore activities, tools and games which can be performed with or without technology.
This course is amazing opportunity to be immersed in Icelandic landscape and culture, to be part of international team of educators from all over Europe, to exchange valuable experiences and knowledge.
LEARNING OUTCOMES – Participant is going to acquire the following competences:
– Develop vital 21st century teaching skills – the 4Cs of education – creativity, communication, collaboration and critical thinking
– Discover the possibilities of innovative teaching and learning techniques to enhance their students’ problem-solving skills
– Learn about benefits of drama and storytelling for improving communication skills which has proved to prevent bullying, early school leaving and enhancing motivation of our students
– Develop skills that will improve self-awareness, emotional control, self-motivation, empathy and relationship skills
– Learn about the importance of emotional intelligence on successful communication and academic success, as well as employment
– Understand the connection of emotional intelligence and successful entrepreneurship and leadership
– Gain knowledge about the tools for facilitating entrepreneurial skills among their students
– Learn how to prepare lessons in a more creative and interesting way to create a motivating and inspiring environment
– Be able to turn lessons to problem and project-based ones
– Use applications such as: Goosechase, Plickers, JeopardyLabs and QR Codes
