Creativity and Soft Skills
Managing dozens of students with diverse needs and remaining up-to-date in one’s subjects while also communicating and mentoring well, it’s not easy!
Our Creativity and Soft Skills courses focus on strengthening the soft skills you use in class every day: creativity, critical thinking, communication and storytelling, and collaboration.
Learn how to effectively design activities to transfer these skills to your students, stimulate their entrepreneurship and interest in learning, and in turn promote better learning outcomes.
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Acquire an understanding of the '4C's' and acknowledge their significance as essential life skills. Explore methods for integrating these skills into both the curriculum and the school environment.
Art, Music, and Dance Therapy for an Inclusive Classroom
Discover the power of creativity for creating an inclusive classroom and fostering motivation, autonomy, self-esteem, participation, and collaboration.
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) for Successful Schools
Learn to develop your own course of action for promoting Social and Emotional Learning in the school through reflection, sharing experiences, and creating a unique path tailored for your school community.
Drama Techniques: Developing Self-Expression, Communication and Social Skills for All Students
Learn an array of new ways to boost participation, motivation, and confidence in the classroom through the implementation of innovative solutions that are more practical and expressive, and therefore, more enjoyable.
Soft Skills for Strong Teachers
Deepen your understanding of the notion of soft skills and reflect on your own leadership, creativity, and communication abilities, among others. Learn how to incorporate the transmission of those skills into every facet of education.
Digital Tools for Collaboration, Communication, Creativity and Critical Thinking (4Cs)
Acquire the knowledge, the know-how, and the confidence to insert the 4Cs skills into the curriculum and school environment. Learn to design practical activities using ICT resources, which are more efficient at developing the 4Cs in students.
Supporting Diversity with Intercultural Education in the Classroom
Discover practical exercises and a legal framework for creating a more inclusive classroom atmosphere. Foster interculturality, respect, and a dynamic environment.
Enough Theory, Let’s Play! Fun Games for Developing the Whole Child
Discover a range of games to be implemented in the classroom to enhance the students’ capacities of self-expression and promote their personal development.
The Child First: Montessori, Reggio Emilia System and Contemporary Approaches to Pre-School Education
Discover alternative teaching methods like the Montessori Method, and the Reggio Emilia Method. Enhance critical and creative thinking skills, gaining crucial abilities to promote independence, and creativity in the classroom.
A Satisfying School Experience: Strategies and Skills for Teachers
Discover innovative approaches to create a meaningful school experience and explore practical ideas for fostering a dynamic, creative environment. Improve student engagement and promote healthy school-family relations with these strategies.
Digital Storytelling: Apps and Software for Creative Writing
Acquire the necessary skills to create audio-visual stories with the support of an array of ICT tools and software, such as Microsoft Photos, which are effective in the involvement of students in the classroom.
Global Education and Critical Media Literacy: Essential Elements in Contemporary Teaching
Gain a practical understanding of the basic principles of Global Education and learn to design educational activities based on its pillars.
Innovative Educational Leadership: Your Soft Skills Toolkit
Engage in a variety of activities and discussions aimed at developing leadership skills, including communication, problem-solving, collaboration, and change management.
Playtime and Downtime for Teachers and Students: the Psychology of Time to Feel Good and Do Good!
Gain an understanding of playtime and downtime concepts. Develop cognitive, social, problem-solving, and resilience skills through new activities and regular rest, preparing yourself for new tasks and challenges.
The Well-Being Code: Energy Tools and Mind-Body Activities for Self-Care
Acquire stress management techniques, resilience-building skills, and coping strategies to promote personal well-being and social-emotional learning. Discover methods to create a positive learning environment.
Visual Arts as a Tool for Communication and Learning
Explore the impact of visual communication in today's digital media landscape for teaching and storytelling. Learn how to leverage visual communication and media literacy to cultivate critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and creativity.
Conflict Management for School Staff
Discover practical strategies, involving conflict mediation, non-violent communication, and role-plays, to develop an effective conflict-resolution toolkit and a renewed feeling of purpose in your professional role.
Finnish Approach to Pupil’s Wellbeing: How to Bring More Activity, Fun and Joy to Classroom
Explore the fundamental theories and techniques of positive education. Discover straightforward mindfulness exercises for classroom use and learn how to celebrate students’ achievements, building their strengths and fostering a positive atmosphere.
Learn to Teach Any Subject with Drama
Discover a variety of drama strategies and learn to modify and integrate them into lessons, designing engaging learning activities.
Learning By Doing: Games and Activities to Develop the Whole Child
Explore active learning strategies that involve learning by doing and discover the value of teaching and learning through useful activities and games, such as Role Play, Peer Teaching, and Body-Play Learning.
Motivate Your Students with Growth Mindset Feedback
Discover the concept of a growth mindset in order to provide the students with purposeful feedback to encourage them to embrace failure and stay focused on their goals. Explore various types of growth-oriented feedback.
Multiple Intelligences for Deeper Learning
Explore the theory of multiple intelligences that allows educators to take into consideration different kinds of learners by reinforcing each type of intelligence, which allows tailoring the learning process to every student.
The Group First! Practical Exercises for Collaboration and Team-Building
Encourage empathy and active listening among students through cultivating teamwork and mutual respect. Employ interactive activities that involve both physical and mental engagement, utilizing the classroom environment and outdoor areas.
AI and the 6Cs for Future-Ready Teaching
Explore AI tools that enhance teaching and learning in the context of the 6Cs. Create a collaborative, inclusive, and digitally-enhanced learning environment.
Boosting Creative Thinking and Problem Solving
Acquire a new conception of the mechanisms of creative thinking and discover new strategies to nurture your immagination, improve creativity, and generate new ideas.
Cultivating Self-Esteem: A Practical Guide for Teachers and Principals
Gain tools to cultivate self-esteem, explore pillars of self-esteem, use Nonviolent Communication techniques, and foster a Growth Mindset for personal growth.
Drawing: a Powerful Tool for Creativity and Personal Development
Learn to find your expressivity, use drawing to bring focus to the topic or activity. Discover how to exploit drawing and illustration to support student learning.
Help Your Students Cope With Stress and Anxiety Thanks to Bibliotherapy
Explore the fundamentals of bibliotherapy for good emotional health through literature. Learn to develop lesson plans and bibliotherapy activities based on relevant children’s books.
Music Activities to Stimulate Emotion, Creativity and Engagement
Experience the power of music and learn how to use it to meet the students’ needs. Discover how to include music in the classroom to develop cognitive and emotional abilities by implementing the principles of music psychology and music therapy.
Performance Art Techniques for an Effective Communication
Discover all the ways in which performance arts, such as theatre, storytelling, and role-play can encourage effective communication, increase creativity and help in the prevention, management, and resolution of conflicts.
Primary Students and Creative Competence: Thriving in the Unknown
Learn how to prepare students for revolutionizing careers and how to develop and evaluate children’s abilities and attitudes in a positive, motivating school environment.
Teach with a Twist! Motivate your Students with Creative Teaching Strategies
Gain useful skills to motivate your students by integrating creative thinking and problem-solving into your lessons. Discover student-centered activities and learn about creative digital tools to support the students’ diverse learning needs.
Teaching Inclusion and Democratic Values Through Interactive Drama Activities
Explore the concept of drama pedagogy as a response to the pressure for students to become responsible citizens of tomorrow’s democratic society. Use drama conventions in educational contexts.
Visible Thinking: Discover the Power of Thinking Routines
Discover the benefits of visible thinking and its ability to foster deep learning through the introduction of various thinking routines applicable in the classroom. Support students in becoming problem-solvers, critical thinkers, and independent learners.
4Cs Education With AI Tools and Storytelling Techniques
Discover how to blend AI tools with education to enhance soft skills among students. Gain practical AI tool insights and storytelling skills to transform your teaching and inspire students across all subjects, preparing them for a future intertwined with AI.
Active Citizenship: Navigating News and Fostering Critical Thinking in the Classroom
Learn how to navigate the news with a critical thinking approach and recognize biases in journalism. Confidently read and understand news, while implementing classroom activities to engage students in current topics.
Arduino for STEAM: Hands-On Learning in the Digital Age
Navigate the challenges of tomorrow's complex educational landscape, utilizing Arduino to equip yourselves with valuable tools and knowledge, and foster essential skills like problem-solving, creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration.
Bring Creativity into the Curriculum
Acquire a better understanding of creativity as an essential skill that empowers young people to adapt and innovate. Discover an array of new assessment tools, as well as concepts such as the Five Core Attitudes and the Seven I’s of Creative People.
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Classroom Debates: Turn Them Into an Effective Teaching Tool
Develop an understanding of the numerous benefits of implementing debates in your curriculum. Use debates as a tool to develop critical thinking, acquire crucial research skills, foster appreciation for diverse views, and improve engagement.
Creative Writing: Engaging Activities for Pupils and Students
Deepen your writing skills while discovering poetry, novel activities, games, and techniques to introduce the learners to creative writing. Learn how to make writing more personal by expressing emotions, feelings, and expectations through it.
Cultivating Self-Leadership: The 8 Cs for Personal Growth and Success
Gain valuable tools to foster self-leadership between you and your students. Develop strategies to cultivate the 8 Cs of self-leadership to create a positive impact in the classroom and empower students for lifelong success.
Discover the 7Cs: Learning for Life (and Work) in the 21st Century
Acquire knowledge on how to innovate school curricula by gaining a systematic understanding of 7 of the most important soft skills in the 21st century as a response to migration and rapid technological development.
Early Child Development: Meeting the Unique Needs of Every Pupil
Gain insights into early childhood development, emphasizing personalized teaching methods, cognitive growth, and enhancing social-emotional skills. Learn to design inclusive learning environments and action plans to support each child's unique journey.
ICT Basic Tools for Gamification and 21st Century Skills
Gain hands-on experience with various apps and programs to integrate them into teaching. Learn to create interactive lessons that will foster 21st-century skills, including critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity.
Integrating Creativity and Innovation into Teaching
Gain crucial knowledge on ICT in education in order to implement technology in the classroom. Discover an array of ideas on how to apply new teaching strategies to boost high-order skills in students.
Learning Out Loud: Engaging Learners Through Comedy and Humor
Explore how to integrate comedy and humor into your classrooms to engage students. Learn improvisational techniques to foster trust, encourage risk-taking, and build students confidence.
Mastering the Art of Storytelling to Enhance Teaching and Learning
Develop an understanding of the importance of communication skills in both professional and private life. Discover the power of storytelling, alongside useful techniques to create and tell a story while keeping your audience engaged.
Theater in Education: Create a Performance with Your Pupils
Learn the most important steps to create a theatrical production together with the students, and the techniques of collective writing. Explore the tools required to effectively coordinate a play while promoting the importance of critical analysis.
Working in Groups: From Cooperation to Democracy
Explore various strategies and techniques of group work inspired by the founders of contemporary pedagogy. Discover the effectiveness of cooperative education in bringing students closer to democracy through collaborative efforts with their peers.