Integrated curriculum – Teaching global skills

We welcome: your unique school experience contribution to collective learning, open mindset, joy of learning

“Realize you are entering in a period of radical innovation be ready to be surprise and surprise others with your explorations (Fullan. M)

Target group

• School managers, that intend to include in their curriculum programs aimed at developing global skills
• Educational policy experts and advisers
• STEAM courses coordinators/teachers
• Teachers of different subjects from all levels from preschool to high school
• Student’ counselors
• Teachers trainers, careers officers, educational guides and counselors
• Educational consultants, teachers coach

Output (what to expect you will be able to exercise after course)

• Leave with your own Design based Learning model for integrated lesson (or Phenomena)
• Tools for starting with, planning, monitoring and evaluating cooperative learning/team teaching/PBL
• Formative assessment and models for transversal skills evaluation in traditional subjects
• How to teach critical thinking/resilience to students all ages ( tools, models, best practices)
• Practice tools to support co-learning teacher-student
• How to foster wellbeing in your class/your school
• Support a culture of learning based organization in your school
• Tool for scaffold and permanent innovation in the process
• Approach ergonomics and engage local actors to establish a living lab in your school
• New learning environments to support new learning ways for students

Outcome (impact of the course in medium terms)

• Future oriented Education
• Personalized learning
• Creativity and innovation in education
• Creating new learning environments
• Health promotion in school and school environment
• Avoid burnouts
• Open school concept

Methodology of the course

Experimental training- getting the information needed for each module;  Learn by doing; Group peer learning- participants share experiences and expertise on the topic between themselves and with local teachers/tutor teachers; Peer to peer learning- working individually or in groups on a development plan to be used in their own school; Local cultural situated learning- visiting best practices (museums, university departments, art and science education best practices etc);Interact with invited speakers; Debriefing and feedforward sessions at the end of each module’ using reflective model and question based; participants will be invited to work on real challenges from their class/school/community; use democratic led discussion and dialog; Design Based Learning; learning outside the classroom “on the move”

Validation

• The course participants will get a Certificate of active participation.
• The competences acquired will be validated by the course organisers on the Europass mobility.

Venue

Helsinki area, the European capital of design, schools as living labs, museums, libraries, art centers

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Accommodation and meals

Participants take care of booking their hotel. Euneos will give advice for hotels in different price categories. Participants are free in choice of hotels and restaurants. Accommodation and food to be paid directly by participants to hotels and restaurants/schools catering.

More information

If you need particular information related to the agenda and the program you can contact the trainer via courses@euneos.eu

Trainer and organizer: Andreea Gatman – Local Organizer and Trainer, MBA in PGM, M.U Vienna

Guests & Speakers: Principals of schools; Teachers’ Tutors, special education teachers, artists etc

Nota bene: The course is opened to all levels of education we will experiment together new learning ways and environments that apply for all ages of pupils from pre-school to upper secondary. Skills based education addresses schools as agents for the whole student development- body, mind and soul.

This is a training program to support Integrated Curriculum skills if your need is mostly to visit Finnish schools then we recommend you have a look at EUNEOS course- Best Practice Benchmarking with schools visits .

Participants’ Testimonies:

“Let’s revers everything: let’s do Global Curriculum with Integrated Skills; the course set the atmosphere to create the ideas” (Katie, Netherlands)

“Portuguese team enjoyed the week, we hope to continue to share experiences and continue to be global teachers and citizens” (Esmeralda, Portugal)

“I got lots of ideas how I would plan the courses, I can say that I got evidence how students work together and how interactive work influence the result of learning” (Irina, Sweden)

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Click herefor course video presentation