Competences and Creativity for Performant Teaching

This course will deliver recent knowledge about competencies that serve as the base for evaluation, and growth and create an effective learning process. It is dedicated to teachers who wish to develop their skills including pedagogical, and personal to develop a successful educational process.

The proposed activities can be used by teachers of many subjects at every level of education from kindergarten to secondary and vocational education. The course aims to encourage teachers to create lessons that include neuroscience knowledge.  It will allow the look into the new forms of lesson organization, taking into account the opportunities offered by the newest pedagogical research.   

The importance of avoiding burnout among the teachers will be one of the contents of the course.  During the classes, the possibilities of using the closer and further surroundings of the school for the organization of an effective didactic process will be tested. Visits to museums, the art galleries, and planning of class trips to cultural sites

The course has a contemporary approach to new learning scenarios, through multi and interdisciplinary learning activities. 

The training days include group activities and developments of practical use of some applications and methodology (e.g., storytelling mind mapping and sketchnoting) During the sessions where participants present their school and the main activities developed there and they also share and discuss the pedagogical potentialities of activities. Participants will be involved in an active learning process, focusing on personal experience and self-expression, combining physical, cognitive, and emotional elements that make the learning process easier and more long-lasting. The preparation of real, ready-to-use learning scenarios will be one of the main facets of the course

The schedule:

Day 1 

-Participants' arrival

-Course introductory

Day 2

-Different types of competencies

-Bloom’s taxonomy on how it can be effectively applied in the learning process to benefit both educators and learners

Day 3

- How to create a safe environment

-Artherapy and class management

Day 4

-Time management and the role of relax during the lessons

- How to teach stress resilience

Day 5 

-Tools for preparing the round-up of learning materials

- The course round-up

- Sharing ideas on ways of inroducing the new knowledge into practice

- Certification