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Our society is becoming faster and faster, and more and more demanding. Within that, students seem to be every day less motivated to learn pure content and more in need of skills for building their life paths and professional careers. At the same time, teachers often feel they lack effective tools to educate nowadays’ learners and to deal with nowadays’ school curricula. This course will guide participants in finding a “compromise” between the demands of school curricula, students’ motivations, and the need to develop their competencies. Participants will inquire how theories can be connected to real life, how knowledge is incorporated into wide competencies, as well as what “competence” should mean in the educational domain. They will also explore features, examples, pros, and cons of various teaching methodologies. They will also get involved in many practical activities to design lessons with Task-Based Learning, Project-Based Learning, and the Flipped Classroom. In addition, they will get ideas on how to possibly incorporate visual resources to introduce some topics, as well as on how to assess students during the learning process with the use of rubrics.  By the end of the course, participants should be more familiar with the concept of competencies in nowadays’ education. They will feel more creative in finding out tailor-made solutions using tools such as task-based learning, project-based learning, the flipped classroom, and the visual thinking strategy. In addition, they will take away lesson plans and activities with the aim of making subjects more relevant, meaningful, and useful for students’ lives and careers. No prior knowledge about those specif...read more.