Soft Skills and Emotional Intelligence for teachers and education staff (Bologna)
This course allows participants to improve their soft skills such as working in a multicultural environment, managing a team, expressing and recognizing emotions, finding their own leadership style, managing responsibly conflicts, delivering attractive public speeches and communicating in an assertive way.
Description
- Course category: Soft Skills and Class Management
- Locations: Bologna, Palermo, Tenerife, Rimini, Porto, Thessaloniki
- Target Audience: teachers, trainers, educational counsellors, career counsellors, school psychologists, headmasters, school management and administrative staff
- Preregistration: Online in the course webpage
- Related courses: Soft Skills for teachers and education staff, Stress and Conflict Management: the way to resilience and satisfaction, Effective Communication skills and Public Speaking for teachers
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This structured intense course aims to enable participants to improve their soft skills such as teamwork, working in a multicultural environment, managing a team, leadership, crisis and conflict management, public speaking and communication, meeting management.The general aim of this course is to foster excellence in education by empowering teachers, trainers, headmasters and other education staff to improve their soft skills together with other participants and trainers throughout all Europe gaining as well a broader understanding of education in Europe and exchanging best practices and experiences. More...
Learning objectives
- Acquire knowledge and tools about teamworking and team management, conflict management, meeting management, public speaking and communication through specific practical learning sessions;
- Improve their practical soft skills through group exercises and tools’ simulations;
- Cooperate and learn in international context improving their capacity to communicate in English and teamwork in a multicultural environment;
- Improve their Curriculum Vitae competences and their employability perspectives;
- Exchange best practices and share experiences with participants and staff coming throughout Europe;
- Make contacts with individuals and organizations working in the education field in Europe through everyday cooperation, networking and team-building activities;
Standard Daily Programme
Sunday- Participants arrival
- Networking activities
- Cultural activities in the city
- Introduction to Soft Skills and Key Competences in education
- Five Pillars of Emotional Intelligence
- Practical group work, role plays and simulations
- Goleman’s leadership styles and the role of Emotional Intelligence
- Teamwork: relevance, effective dynamics and roles
- Empathy and membership: their key value in education
- Communication: discovering the impact of our communication style
- Assertiveness: a key of effective communication
- Learning how to say no
- Body Language and Non Verbal Communication: learn to speak it
- Public speeches: plan them, become an effective public speaker
- Behavioral challenges: successful strategies in dealing with them
- Changing perspectives: is conflict always bad?
- Conflict management: the 3 keys
- The Thomas-Kilmann model: five strategies to handle a conflict
- 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:AccommodationCourseMealsTransport
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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 1280 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)Lower secondary education (ISCED 2)Upper secondary education (ISCED 3)
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Target audience type:TeacherHead Teacher / PrincipalHigher education institution staff
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Learning time:25 hours or more