As all of the people involved in Erasmus + program known, there are three basics kind of learning approaches, formal, non-formal and informal. Learnings approaches that we can manage and schedule are formal and non-formal.

One of the challenges of formal education is to keep the motivation and the attention of the students into the lessons, and as we can see in some studies about non-formal approaches, the non-formal learning bring sources of motivation to the participants since these activities will use:

-Bidirectional learning: When a student can influence in the topic dealt with his/her experience we have a huge increment of the participation.

-Reflexion of the learning process: Since all the non-formal learning need a reflexion time, the students will appreciate the learning they achieve, so the motivation of keep learning in the topic worked will be more than if we just use formal learning.

-Tangible results: Another aspect of non-formal education is the creation of tangible results such presentations, things, posters, etc.

With this all we can have the conclusion that non formal education can help to formal education teachers as way to keep the attention and motivation, to deal with some topics that are important in a classroom and develop the creativity and other competences of the students. Of course we know that schools has a curriculum to compliment, and this curriculum need to be done with formal education, but some little sessions (like once peer week) can help a lot in the engagement of the students.

In this course we propose to teach you the basics to use fine arts as a tool to work with your students using non-formal approaches!