Participants will have the necessary skills and materials to implement cooperative learning in their own classrooms and to guide others in implementing it. They will have developed simple and more complex concrete material in different subjects where they train the learners social and intercultural competences as well as teaching them their subject in an active, inclusive and creative way. 

The target groups for the course are schools and organisations which have strategies or core aims of improving learners key competencies including: Cooperation, communication, initiative, entrepreneurial skills, critical and creative thinking, citizenship, teamwork, problem solving and underpinning core skills and embedding these within the subject curricula.  Participants could be teachers at all levels of education from primary, secondary, further and higher education in both academic and vocational areas. Additionally senior managers, head teachers and other educational staff responsible for teaching and learning.

The course is very hands on and the distribution of content is along the following lines:

Day one: 

How to create a good class climate? Work on constructing the feeling of safety and trust within a classroom through various activities.

Day two: 

Intercultural education. Why is it necessary in European societies to day? 

Day three: 

The teaching methods. Which teaching methods are useful to reach the aims of inclusive/intercultural education and training the key competences, while teaching your subject? 

Day four: 

Examples of different simple cooperative learning methods.

Teachers prepare their own simple task, using certain criteria to reach the aims of inclusive/intercultural education and train key competences. 

Day five: 

Assessment for learning 

Complex instruction and CLIM, Working with the material.

Day six: 

Status and status treatment when using “group worthy” materials. How can status treatment work against exclusion and bullying? 

Day seven:

Evaluation of the project