5 Steps to Improve Teaching and Learning
Participants will develop an understanding of the notions of formative feedback, meta-cognition, and active learning in the context of student-centered learning methods. They will also discover how to develop a plan to introduce changes to their curriculum to avoid shallow and ineffective teaching.
Description
- This course is available in: Amsterdam, Nice, Ghent, Lisbon
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Have you ever felt, as an educator, that your teaching wasn’t as effective as you wish, that your students were just acquiring shallow and evanescent knowledge, or that some features of your school environment were hindering the effective flow of everyday activities? Teaching - and learning - are hard jobs! Educational environments often need urgent changes, especially nowadays. Anyway, introducing them can seem extremely arduous. This course aims to help educators makepositive change, may it be in their teaching processes, in the way students are involved, and/or in some of their school customs. Participants will acquire knowledge and practical skills related to feedback, formative assessment, meta-cognition, active learning, and student-centered methods. In addition to that, they will have the chance to draft a proposal to improve some key features or processes in their schools. By the end of this training, participants will take away concrete ideas and plans to improve their teaching and students’ learning, employing tools such as formative assessment, self-regulated learning, active learning, collaboration, student-centered strategies. Participants will also have identified and addressed the most important educational needs of their classrooms and/or schools, as well as designed a development plan for them, to make educational practices more effective.
Learning objectives
The course will help the participants to understand how to:
- Become more familiar with the notions of feedback, formative assessment, self-regulated learning, metacognition, active learning, student-centered methodologies;
- Design tailor-made activities which use the aforementioned notions and strategies;
- Feel more confident in proposing change in their educational environments;
- Improve classroom and/or school customs and practices;
- Get inspiration and use practical tools for high quality teaching and learning.
Methodology & assessment
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Certification details
Course enrolment will guarantee you:
- Seamless Administration: We provide assistance and guidance to our participants throughout every step of the project: from the grant application to the final documents.
- Post-Course Training: 100€ voucher on 40+ online courses
- 360° experience: from coffee breaks to cultural visits
- Certification support:
- 🗎 Certificate of Attendance
- 🗎 Europass Mobility Certificate
- 🗎 Learning Agreement
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Pricing, packages and other information
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Price:580Euro
Additional information
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Language:English
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Target audience ISCED:Primary education (ISCED 1)Lower secondary education (ISCED 2)Upper secondary education (ISCED 3)
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Target audience type:TeacherHead Teacher / PrincipalTeacher Educator
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Learning time:25 hours or more
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