Description In the time of globalization, cultures and identities constantly blend in the classroom. Teachers face classrooms full of students from different backgrounds and needs. In order to fight discrimination and prejudice, they are required…
Description Social, emotional, and behavioral factors hugely affect academic performance. As growing research shows, schools can do a lot to support pupils and students in developing their socio-emotional and behavioral learning (SEB). In fact, when…
Description Discipline issues are the main obstacle to creating a classroom environment conducive to learning and academic achievement and can also lead to serious work satisfaction and mental health issues for both new and experienced…
Description Your school is the space where you spend a lot of your time. Your colleagues and the staff of your school are part of your life, and as part of a larger family, you…
Description Globalized societies often require teachers to work with students from various cultural backgrounds. Nowadays the frequent migration of entire populations caused by global economic change and war is making such a challenge even more…
Description “If the sky is only one, why is the earth fragmentary?” The question from a novel by Gianni Rodari – one of the main Italian authors of children’s literature – describes properly the challenge…
Description Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and safety skills education strengthen children’s self-esteem, self-awareness, and self-respect. It promotes children’s interaction skills, and supports relationships with others. Children learn how to act in difficult situations, and…
Discover how to transcend language and cultural barriers in order to create a completely inclusive environment, sensible to residual effects of trauma and relocation.
Acquire crucial knowledge on competence and awareness necessary in a multicultural classroom by discovering how to appreciate diversity and how to communicate successfully and appropriately in a diverse context.
Discover how the use of different forms of performance art can help resolve conflict within the classroom or prevent bullying, and learn how to foster active listening, empathy, and emotional intelligence among the students.
Acquire an understanding of group dynamics by discovering how tensions, alliances, and relational struggle can interfere with learning, and learn to encourage active listening, empathy, and emotional literacy.
Enhance your abilities to support trauma-affected children. Learn about the impact of trauma and stress on children and gain practical tools for creating a trauma-informed, strength-based classroom.
Learn how to foster and encourage diversity and inclusion by creating a safe and welcoming learning environment by raising cultural awareness among the pupils.
Discover new strategies to manage the classroom and help the students understand each other by encouraging respect and empathy to build positive relations.
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.
Discover classroom management strategies to teach emotional intelligence, build a psychologically safer classroom, and help offset the negative consequences of trauma.
Explore intercultural educational practices, deal with issues connected with communication, and interact in a positive way regardless of yours or the students' background. Discover innovative methods to turn diversity into an opportunity.
Deepen your understanding of an array of concepts surrounding sexuality, acquiring the capacity to differentiate them and pass the knowledge onto the pupils to create a safe environment that supports them in the development and disclosure of their own sexuality.
Description Working with teenagers has always been challenging and, today, the generation gap between “adults” and “teenagers” seems to be even bigger. Educators often struggle to understand teenagers’ real needs and to respond to them.…