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Building 21st century success skills
Third-party on-site course

“STEM and LEGO Education SPIKE Essential: Teacher’s Guide”

The purpose of this KA1 Erasmus+ Course is: To facilitate and ensure the adoption of innovative teaching – learning practices; To build 21st century success skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration and creativity/innovation; To show how to cultivate the STEM competences from two aspects: the design principles of the STEM curricula content and the implementati

19.04.2025
Next upcoming session:
28.04.2025 - 04.05.2025
Multiple locations
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Description

MONDAY (Day 1)

Module 1: Welcome and registration 
Ice-breaking and Warm Ups. Team-building session
School education in Denmark: strengths and challenges
Introduction: STEM and LEGO Spike Education:

    What should STEM education accomplish? STEM –Goals and Objectives; The Importance of STEM Education in 21st Century world;
    What is Lego Education? LEGO Education solutions; Building A Better Learning Model with LEGO Education

TUESDAY (Day 2)

Module 2: 

    STEM Teaching Tools;
    ICT IN STEM EDUCATION: Technology driven 21st century work place – creating rapid shifts in demands for knowledge and skills;
    Robotics Curriculum and STEM Teacher Training;
    Getting to know LEGO® Learning System: Interconnected Solutions that work Seamlessly Together; A System of Integrated and Scalable Components

WEDNESDAY (Day 3)

Module 3: Outdoor activity with a training task: “Treasure Hunt” – In the shoes of our learners

THURSDAY (Day 4)

Module 4: 

    The Link between Creativity, STEM and Interdisciplinary Approach;
    STEM and STEAM;
    LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Lesson Plans in Classroom Practice


FRIDAY (Day 5)

Module 5: 

    Characteristics of a Great STEM Lesson;
    LEGO Education for increasing the students’ ability to apply STE(A)M knowledge and transferable STE(A)M practices to solving real-world problems

SATURDAY (Day 6)

Module 6: Group work – overview of the outcomes
Sightseeing/ Cultural Activities according the intercultural competences, stated in Europass Mobility

SUNDAY (Day 7)

Module 7: Course conclusion: Feedback, course evaluation and dissemination focus

Learning objectives

Provide knowledge and skills with a positive attitude towards innovations, feel the necessity for self-education, and adopt a student centered teaching approach; Develop teaching professional skills, trying to be "an effective model of competence"; Learning to learn competence; Integrate 21st century skills and content in instruction; Using a variety of research-verified approaches to improve teaching and learning; Apply Project – Based Learning as student-centered teaching method, encourage learning through spontaneous activities and solving meaningful real-world tasks; Balancing direct instruction strategically with project-oriented teaching methods; Develop relevant, high-level skills such as creativity, critical thinking, metacognition and other key competences through innovative teaching methods, enhance good quality of mainstream education; Enable teachers to review and develop teaching methods so as to improve both the content of their classes/ lessons and their method of delivery as teachers; Learn to motivate, guide and effectively assess to reduce low achievement in basic competences, promote peer exchange and active participation within the education; Revise and develop personal and professional competences, build confidence in promoting innovative and active pedagogies that are responsive to social and cultural diversity; Developing a set of thinking, reasoning, teamwork, investigative, and creative skills that students can use in all areas of their lives through incorporating different subjects across an existing curriculum; Expanding teaching repertoire of pedagogical skills to meet 21st century education novel needs: Developing scientific and technological understanding, required by personal and societal decisions in the 21st century; Providing standards-based structured inquiry-based and real-world problem-based learning, connecting all four of the STEM subjects; Developing STEM competences: scientific concepts, scientific thinking, inquiry practice.

Methodology & assessment

Training modules, each of which covered a different aspect of 21st century education and teaching skills and STEM and LEGO Education. Each module attempted to incorporate the existing knowledge and experience of the trainees in an effort to create a helpful learning environment while at the same time demonstrating the importance of collaboration and shared creation in the teaching – learning process. Coursework contained a mix of theoretical and practical knowledge. Participants practiced the necessary skills in order to be able to effectively use different teaching approaches with their own students. Other activities: Team – Building Sessions; Group Discussions; Activities of research about EU policy for recognition and validation of competences; Assessment of the "entry" competences and creation of individual learning pathway for the learners; Problem – Solving Activities; Debates; Questioning; Goal – Setting sessions; Decision – Making Sessions; Action – Based Strategies; Brainstorming; Star bursting; Planning an Structuring; Negotiation and Persuasion;Ice – Breaker Sessions; Self – Motivation Sessions.

Certification details

At the end of the course, each participant will be awarded a Certificate of Attendance along with Europass Mobility Certificate.

Our certificates are in line with the Erasmus Quality Standards and so include the title of the course and short description of its learning outcomes (if requested), dates, venue, the name of the course provider and the course director, number of training hours.

We support participants in every step of certification and validation of learning outcomes with specific focus on European instruments and Erasmus plus requirements such as staff mobility/learning agreement, quality commitment and Europass mobility certificate.

Pricing, packages and other information

  • Price:
    560
    Euro

Additional information

  • Language:
    English
  • Target audience ISCED:
    Lower secondary education (ISCED 2)
    Upper secondary education (ISCED 3)
    Other
  • Target audience type:
    Teacher
    Head Teacher / Principal
    Other
  • Learning time:
    25 hours or more

Upcoming sessions

  • Starting on 28.04.2025 - Ending on 04.05.2025
    Planned
    in

    Paris

    , France
  • Starting on 23.06.2025 - Ending on 29.06.2025
    Planned
    in

    Stockholm

    , Sweden
  • Starting on 14.07.2025 - Ending on 20.07.2025
    Planned
    in

    Oslo

    , Norway
  • Starting on 04.08.2025 - Ending on 10.08.2025
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    in

    Helsinki

    , Finland
  • Starting on 01.09.2025 - Ending on 07.09.2025
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    in

    Luxembourg

    , Luxembourg
  • Starting on 27.10.2025 - Ending on 02.11.2025
    Planned
    in

    Prague

    , Czechia
  • Starting on 10.11.2025 - Ending on 16.11.2025
    Planned
    in

    Budapest

    , Hungary
  • Starting on 01.12.2025 - Ending on 07.12.2025
    Planned
    in

    Las Palmas

    , Spain

Past sessions

  • Starting on 22.01.2024 - Ending on 28.01.2024
    Planned
    in

    Stockholm

    , Sweden
  • Starting on 19.02.2024 - Ending on 25.02.2024
    Planned
    in

    Barcelona

    , Spain
  • Starting on 18.03.2024 - Ending on 24.03.2024
    Planned
    in

    Lisbon

    , Portugal
  • Starting on 08.04.2024 - Ending on 14.04.2024
    Planned
    in

    Oslo

    , Norway
  • Starting on 08.04.2024 - Ending on 14.04.2024
    Planned
    in

    Copenhagen

    , Denmark
  • Starting on 15.04.2024 - Ending on 21.04.2024
    Planned
    in

    Bratislava

    , Slovakia
  • Starting on 20.05.2024 - Ending on 26.05.2024
    Planned
    in

    Ljubljana

    , Slovenia
  • Starting on 08.07.2024 - Ending on 14.07.2024
    Planned
    in

    Stockholm

    , Sweden
  • Starting on 22.07.2024 - Ending on 28.07.2024
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    in

    Las Palmas, Gran Canaria

    , Spain
  • Starting on 19.08.2024 - Ending on 25.08.2024
    Planned
    in

    Copenhagen

    , Denmark
  • Starting on 26.08.2024 - Ending on 01.09.2024
    Planned
    in

    Valetta

    , Malta
  • Starting on 02.09.2024 - Ending on 08.09.2024
    Planned
    in

    Copenhagen

    , Denmark
  • Starting on 21.10.2024 - Ending on 27.10.2024
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    in

    Catania

    , Italy
  • Starting on 18.11.2024 - Ending on 24.11.2024
    Planned
    in

    Verona, Venice

    , Italy
  • Starting on 27.01.2025 - Ending on 02.02.2025
    Planned
    in

    Antalya

    , Türkiye
  • Starting on 17.02.2025 - Ending on 23.02.2025
    Planned
    in

    Barcelona

    , Spain
  • Starting on 10.03.2025 - Ending on 16.03.2025
    Planned
    in

    Porto

    , Portugal
  • Starting on 07.04.2025 - Ending on 13.04.2025
    Planned
    in

    Rome

    , Italy

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