TRANSFORM YOUR TEACHING STYLE: EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND CREATIVITY IN THE CLASSROOM 5 – 9 February 2018 Teacher training seminar within the framework of the ERASMUS+ Program
1. Introduction This course has been developed for teachers who want to transform their teaching style by enhancing their emotional intelligence and creativity skills in the classroom. What are the essential skills students need in order to thrive? While education focuses on cognitive skills, research shows that social and emotional skills are also essential. Even if the school has not instituted a formal program in support of social and emotional learning, there are plenty of activities teachers can initiate right in their own classroom. Understanding that an emotionally intelligent teacher is the first step towards an emotionally intelligent classroom will lead to change in due time, as students will respond to sustained emotionally intelligent role-modelling Creativity is the process of tapping onto one’s authenticity and producing, as a natural result of it, amazingly unique and valuable thoughts, actions, and emotions. Sadly, education still tends to uniform thought and imagination from a very early age. As Ken Robinson says "Creativity is as important in education as literacy" Creativity is the essence of teaching and learning and in order to develop creative learning approaches, it is crucial that teachers are prepared to become reflective practitioners able to discern how a teaching method, an attitude, or an activity can stifle or trigger creativity in their students. Instructors who adopt a student-centred approach to instruction and increase opportunities for student engagement, which then helps everyone more successfully to develop their personal competencies and skills.
Sending partners: educational organizations involved in formal, non-formal, and informal learning: schools, adult training centres, resources’ centres and other relevant organizations active at schools, youth and adult educational organizations established in Erasmus program countries.
Participants: minimum 10 participants involved in education. The participants are: teachers, adult trainers, or active members in the sending organizations interested in using active learning techniques to engage students, and encourage emotional intelligence and creativity.
Course fee: The costs are distributed as follows: 350 € course fee. It includes: • • • •
Enrolment to the course 5 days of onsite training course Training material (handouts) Certificate of Attendance
170 € management and coordination fee. This fee includes: • • • •
Management of the training Certificate of Competence (Europass) Coffee breaks Administration costs and Final Report
Ask for other expenses such as: accommodation, transfer, cultural activities, visit to Barcelona and meals.
Duration: 25 hours (5 days) Language used: English
2. Objectives •
Better understanding of their own emotional intelligence competencies as teachers.
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Learning to develop creative strategies in their own schools and classrooms and daily activities, class planning and overall attitude shift regarding the interaction with their students on the basis of emotional intelligence.
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Developing tools and techniques that can be used in order to foster emotional bonding with their students, increase students’ motivation and combat drop-out phenomenon.
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Learning techniques to develop emotional awareness, foster empathy and connection with others while developing relaxation and overall emotional well-being while at work. All this will be done through a playful and participatory holistic methodology.
3. Methodology The course will based on learning by experience and addressing practical and real day-to-day cases and situations. The teacher (a trained professional therapist and coach) will support trainees and will help them in dealing with any kind of issue that may arise during the learning process. The teacher will also provide feedback and encourage participation in each person’s own style and capacity.
The teacher will perform an individualized follow-up to ensure that all participants are engaged and motivated to acquire and develop the techniques and new professional skills that the course offer equip them with. The course evaluation will thus be continuous and personalized, according to the course program.
Participants to this workshop will learn how to create an atmosphere in which students and teachers like to learn and grow together as an educational community.
4. Structured Course Programme The duration of the structured training course is 25 hours from Monday to Friday with both theoretical and practical contents (with a priority to the latter, in the sense that theoretical contents will come up during the course as an effect, so to say, of experience and experimentation… first comes experience and then all the necessary words about it).
Modules of the training course:
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HOW TO BECOME A (MORE) CREATIVE TEACHER? Since you are already in the educational domain, chances are that you are already trying to work by projects, apply inter-age groups and techniques, gamification and every other concept in the field… These new approaches / techniques help you be more creative, indeed… but… is that all about creativity? Is creativity a technique? In this workshop we’ll focus on creativity as a “HOW”, rather than as a “WHAT”, because how to make it happen makes the difference.
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STOP TALKING ABOUT EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND START APPLYING IT Most likely, you have heard a lot about Emotional Intelligence (EI) and yet it may seem to you either as a foreign concept, or else like a slogan that no one tells you how to put in place. In this workshop, you will be invited to use emotional intelligence, strategize with it, model student –teacher interactions and find ways to boost your intrapersonal and interpersonal strengths as well as ways to work on your weaker sides. Are you up for it?
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TURN YOUR TEACHING STYLE INTO A MOTIVATING STUDENT-CENTERED ONE If you’d ask anybody if their system, school, or classroom was studentcentred they would say: “yes, how could it be otherwise?” But the fact is that a student-centred school or system would be quite different from what we most often experience in our schools and high schools… a student-centred system or classroom focuses on all that which fosters student-teacher bonding. This, as we know, results in greater teacher and student motivation, efficacy, and what is more important; happiness!
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TRANSFORM YOUR CLASS MANAGEMENT APPROACH AND SKILLS This workshop wants to offer you a new approach that aims at fostering your and your students’ well-being; so, meditation and mindfulness will be part of it. We will also show you the importance of resorting to a processcentred approach that takes some pressure out of our goal-oriented system. This workshop will encourage you to look at the invisible in each one of your students and in yourself as a teacher… teachers go through a lot which they hardly ever get the time to process… unless they learn how to do it on the spot.
NB: Order and/or contents could be adapted, modified, reduced and extended, according to the participants’ profiles, in order to better cater to their needs and interests.
About the coach:
Workshop in Barcelona with psychopedagogist and Instructional coach Anand Torrents Alcaraz
“I graduated in Philosophy in 1994, and since then I have travelled extensively and worked in various countries. Since 2006, I am back at home, in Catalonia. I have been a teacher myself at all levels of the educational system in my country and abroad. I have worked as a philosophy, languages, social science teacher…. Something that has greatly influenced my teaching and coaching style is the fact that I have worked for more than 20 years as a Yoga and meditation teacher as well. I became a Gestalt therapist and couple counsellor too and got a Master’s degree in Psychopedagogy in 2015. In the last years, I have chosen to apply my knowledge and skills to the work with adults; more specifically with teachers. So, I have designed a flexible and adaptive training program for teachers that aims at drawing the best of each participant. After being a teacher long time myself, I know the ropes of the job and what educators need; it is a job for the brave and I am glad to be one more support to them.”
5 PRACTICAL INFORMATION Registration We kindly ask you to pre-register on time for the training course. The preparation for the training and journey can only be started after the written confirmation of M&M Profuture Training, S.L. for the registration and the transfer of all due amounts such as course fees. The organizer reserves the right to carry out the course only if a minimum of 5 people have registered and transferred the fees for the course. Course Venue, Travel and Accommodation The course will take place in Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona). Travel, lodging and boarding are the responsibility of the sending organization/individuals and covered from the budget of the sending organization/individuals. M&M will support with local information about region, such as local transport and cultural routes. Staff Training Abroad – Training Course Provider M&M Profuture Training is a private company located in Cornellà de Llobregat, strategically placed near Barcelona with an important relationship with the professional and vocational training domain and the educational world. M&M is a modern consulting company founded in 2014, whose staff has longtime experience in managing and leading training programs, and educational activities. As a training service provider, M&M organizes, manages, and delivers high quality specialized trainings for a diversity of local and foreign companies and private and public organizations locally and internationally.
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