Effective teaching

Course fee:
EUR 350,-/5 days grants till 2020
EUR 400,-/5 days grants from 2021
Our course fee is always in accordance with the official Erasmus+ project guidelines.

5 days course in Prague
This course will help participants to further their teaching competencies by:

Getting to know and apply important aspects of efficient and effective learning in the classroom;
Designing and teaching exemplary lesson sequences and receiving (video) feedback afterwards;
Matching learning content and context with the appropriate methods, media and material;
Implementing strategies of ensuring motivation of each individual in the learning group;
(Pro)actively dealing with emerging disturbances and conflicts;
Productively reflecting on their role and identity as a teacher.

Tentative schedule
Day 1 – Course introduction & learner types
Contracting
Expectations, goals, rules, roles
Setting the frame and maintaining it
Communicating in the classroom I
Ensuring comprehensibility & establishing rapport
Presenting contents and oneself
Appropriately applying body language, voice & words
Teaching according to learner types
Sensory needs of learners & degree of retention
Day 2 – Motivating learners & brain-appropriate teaching
Motivating learners
Listening actively with emotional intelligence
Taking care of learners‘ psychological needs
Furthering interactivity in and beyond the classroom
Brain-appropriate teaching
Learners’ need for sense, connection, application & repetition
Day 3 – Conflict management & solving of participants’ professional issues
(Proactively) Dealing with disturbances and conflicts
Group dynamics
Ensuring a productive work environment with assertiveness (I-language)
Mediating conflictual situations
Solving “burning” issues
Peer counseling & coaching
Day 4 – Designing and teaching lessons (sequences) I
Designing interactive lessons
Learning sandwich
Defining learning goals & managing time
Giving lessons a thematic, formal, goal- & needs-oriented and didactic structure
Teaching a newly designed or revised lesson sequence
Matching learning content & context with appropriate methods, media & material
Giving & receiving resources-oriented feedback (on request with video feedback)
Day 5 – Teaching lessons (sequences) II & self-reflection
Teaching a newly designed or revised lesson sequence (continued)
Self-reflection
My teaching competencies
Roles of a teacher
Day 6 – Course closure & cultural activities
Course closure
Course evaluation: round up of acquired competences, feedback, and discussion;
Lessons learned and action plan
Awarding of the course Certificate of Attendance.