Preventing gender-based discrimination and promoting gender inclusiveness in the classroom (Tenerife)
This course allows participants to share and discuss challenges, best practices and strategies t opreventing gender-based discrimination while facing, acknowledging and celebrating gender diversity in the classroom.
Description
- Course category: Inclusion and Diversity
- Locations: Bologna, Palermo, Tenerife, Rimini
- Target Audience: teachers, trainers, educational counsellors, career counsellors, school psychologists, headmasters, school management and administrative staff
- Preregistration: Online in the course webpage
- Related courses: Diversity in the classroom: teaching tolerance and overcoming prejudices, Intercultural Learning and Cultural Diversity in education, Special needs and inclusive education, the Italian experience of overcoming segregation
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This training course allows participants to get a broader understanding of gender and sexuality themes to create a safe and gender inclusive classroom environment. Participants will learn and practice tools and strategies to model positive behaviors, confront gender stereotypes, prevent gender-based discrimination, promote respect and self-awareness, maintain open minds in the classroom. The general aim of this course is to equip teachers and education staff with tools to interact with the class taking into account the growing complexities of gender and sexuality themes while supporting students' in expressing their unique identities. More...
Learning objectives
- Understand the difference between basic concepts of sex, gender, sexual orientation and gender-based discrimination, sexual harassment, sexual assault;
- Confront and understand the mechanisms behind gender stereotypes;
- Improve their ability to model discussions about gender and sexual orientation in the classroom;
- Learn how to improve their own and students' self awareness and emotional intelligence;
- Get to know tools that can help shaping a safe and gender-inclusive classroom environment;
- Exchange good practices and discuss challenges with fellow colleagues and the course trainers.
Standard Daily Programme
Sunday- Participants arrival
- Networking activities
- Cultural activities in the city
- Sex and gender
- Gender identity and sexual orientation
- The impact of gender-related norms in the learning environment
- Gender identity and labels: the complexities of a spectrum
- LGBTQIA+ community: inspirations from real life stories
- Gender identity in the classroom and students' self-awareness
- Gender stereotypes: roles, cultural and generational perspectives
- Discrimination linked to sex, gender and sexual orientation
- Sexual harassment and sexual assault: similarities and differences
- Gender-based discrimination: the role of emotional education
- Empathy, respect, active listening and conflict resolution
- Practical activities to model healthy interpersonal relationships
- A gender-inclusive classroom: modeling language and behavior
- Promoting non-discrimination and anti-harassment practices
- Practical activities: foster inclusion and open minds
- Course wrap-up and final evaluation
- Validation of learning outcomes and certification ceremony
- Participants departure
Methodology & assessment
The standard methodology is highly practical and participative with hands-on approach that comprises real-job examples, case studies examination and simulations. We embrace collaborative working methods that foster mutual learning and cooperation among participants. Our focus is on transferring knowledge and skills which are applicable to real contexts and/or in the classroom. The pedagogical methods that we use are based upon experiential learning, group and peer activities, learning-by-doing and best practices’ exchange.
We support our partners in every step of the course: from application, to preparation, to monitoring and evaluation and collection of all final documentation. Morning wrap-up and brief daily evaluations are foreseen to ensure the learning programme is finely tailored to participants' needs. At the end of each course, we provide participants with supporting material and multiple dissemination evidence.
We commit to make participants feel at home during our courses, catering for their personal, practical and educational needs. Indeed, in addition to delivering the training, we provide board and lodging in the same hotel where the course takes place, thus ensuring the best comfort and coziness as well as effective time management.
We organize optional social, networking and cultural activities in order to give participants the opportunity to know the venue’s culture as well as to exchange best-practice and establish professional links. The training and staff team is multinational thus giving a full European dimension to the course.
Certification details
Pricing, packages and other information
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Package contents:AccommodationCourseMeals
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Additional information:
Teachers, trainers, headmasters and any other staff of education organizations are eligible to receive an Erasmus+ grant covering all the costs to attend our training courses including travel, board and lodging, cultural activities and all fees. Our training courses are tailored to be fully funded by Erasmus+ and we offer different options to ensure the best comfort and quality at a price that is within the Erasmus+ grant.
We are proud to tailor our training courses to both participants' learning and practical needs and to ease your participation at our training courses, we will gladly take care of all the practical arrangements. If you prefer, you can take care of some of the practical arrangements by yourself (e.g. meals, local transport...), though we will manage the organization of your accommodation in order to ensure optimal logistic organization, safety and time-efficiency. We always provide board and lodging in the same hotel in which we organize the course thus ensuring optimal comfort and potential of networking with the fellow participants. Read more about how we take care of your subsistence and practical arrangements.
The most common option that we offer to schools and organisations costs EUR 1220 and includes course fee, certification and support fee, accommodation in single room, 2 coffee breaks per day, 3 meals per day, walking tour in the venue’s city, a sum-up dissemination video and local transport during the course. For schools sending 2 or more participants we can offer accommodation in double rooms and we can provide as well accommodation for people or relatives accompanying the participants.
When attending our courses, we recommend you to request 9 days of individual support for your subsistence costs, 7 days for the course plus 2 additional days for the travel. You can read here more about the Erasmus+ funding.
Additional information
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Language:English
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Target audience ISCED:Primary education (ISCED 1)Upper secondary education (ISCED 3)Post-secondary non-tertiary education (ISCED 4)
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Target audience type:TeacherHead Teacher / PrincipalHigher education institution staff
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Learning time:25 hours or more