The teachers at Europass have been able to improve their professional skills in various fields thanks to different Erasmus projects:
Thanks to the Erasmus+ accreditation won in 2021 (2021-1-IT02-KA121-ADU-000006818), many teachers embarked on individual mobility to attend professional development courses or engage in job shadowing in partner schools.
Erasmus KA1 funds were also used to bring expert trainers from abroad to conduct seminars for Europass school teachers.
Here below is a list of the training sessions from the last two years:
Training 2022
Educational Coaching Tools
7-11/02/2022 training in Malaga, Spain
CLIL Method
7-12/02/2022 training in Dublin, Ireland
Storytelling, humor, improvisation techniques, and stand-up comedy, in the classroom
8-10/03/2022 invited expert Carmine Rodi Falanga
Intercultural classroom management
21-25/03/2022 training in Malaga, Spain
Emotional learning and educational neuroscience in the classroom
6-9/06/2022 invited expert Veerle Ponnet
Team Building for School: Play and Fun, Building Educators’ Communities
27/06- 02/07/2022 training in Tenerife, Spain
Digital tools for teaching
13-17/11/2022 training in Istanbul, Turkey
Alternative Ways
23-25/11 invited experts Els Streefkerk and Arjen Barel, training for teaching languages to low-literacy foreigners through games and activities aimed at increasing self-confidence in learning a foreign language.
Training 2023
Job shadowing
30/01 – 3/02/2023 in a primary school in Vorbasse, Denmark
Leadership strategies, communication, and classroom management
31/01 – 02/02/2023 invited expert Thomas Frick
4Cs: Communication, Collaboration, Creativity and Critical Thinking
13-17/02/2023 training in Seville, Spain
Use of Italian art and culture in language teaching
15-17/02/2023 invited expert Gianluca Olcese
Digital classroom
20-24/02/2023 training in Seville, Spain
Facing behavioral challenges
11-16/03/2023 training in Limassol, Cyprus
Digital Storytelling
27/03- 01/04/2023 training in Prague, Czech Republic
Using the voice in the classroom
2-4/05/2023 invited expert Jarek Sacharski
Environmental Stewardship: How to Reconnect with Nature
26-30/06/2023 training in Nice, France
The Democratic Life in the EU
23-28/10/2023 training in Dublin, Ireland
Resilience and Well-being Strengths
30/10- 04/11/2023 training in Tenerife, Spain
The best digital tools for language teachers
20-25/11/2023, training in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Training 2024
AI for Education: Exploring the Frontiers of ICT
15-20/01/2024, training in Dublin
Job-shadowing
8-13/04/2024, in an English language school in Dublin
Artificial Intelligence and ICT for language learning
19-21/03/2024, training in Florence, Italy, invited expert Alenka Miljević.
Other KA2 projects
Thanks to the Erasmus+ Digitise – Toolkit for 50+ project (2021-1-RO01-KA220-000034802), our teachers developed their digital skills, allowing them to offer more interactive and effective lessons. They participated in training sessions on digital tools in Berlin, Cluj-Napoca, and Thessaloniki.
Through the Erasmus+ Creativity for Innovation project, our teachers learned innovative and creative methods for teaching foreign languages to adults. In particular, two teachers attended training on the Callan method in Zagreb (Croatia) and on storytelling in Amsterdam (Netherlands).
The Erasmus+ project Learning Out Loud (LOL) allowed our teachers to develop even more engaging and effective activities to support our students in their learning path, integrating elements of stand-up, improv theatre, and positive psychology in our language lessons.
The Jean Monnet Project EUTEAM provided our school with the opportunity to organize teacher training courses about the EU, both online and in-person, allowing our community to promote active citizenship and the common EU values.