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Everyday school teachers wear good faces and fill in their boxes of teaching tools with the most varied offer to engage their students. Are you one of those? Then you certainly know that good teaching, which meets the expectations of your headmaster and colleagues, your students, and their families, is very rewarding… but can also be really exhausting! This course offers a variety of tools to help you find relief from the stress that naturally accumulates after teaching for many years. It has been designed to support school teachers with new proposals to increase students’ involvement, allow teachers to reflect on their habitual practices, and eventually renovate their lessons. Participants will reflect on the differences in their audience of learners, and consider its variety of needs and learning modalities. They will join a shared discussion about the nature and role of meta-cognition and motivation for learning, and acquiring practical skills about how to increase them through constructive feedback and by applying effective methods for formative assessment. Participants will also practice their capacity to manage group dynamics and drive conflict toward its solution, as well as to build effective lesson plans by following structured activities that maximize learning. Finally, they will be prompted to reflect on how to apply the acquired tools in their school environment, thus already starting the renovation of their working routines. By taking this course, school teachers will find one help to make a positive change, may it be in their teaching processes, in the way students are involved, and/or in the educational environment. By its end, participa...read more.