Course Topic: Collaboration and Team Building
Social interaction and group work promote active learning while facilitating team building and the creation of personal relations among students.
Collaborative learning can take many forms: public and structured discussions on specific topics, collective brainstorming, Jigsaw interaction, pair-work, role-playing, and project-based activities such as PBL and task-based learning…
Any of these identify an effective strategy to boost social interaction and engagement in the classroom.
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Explore hands-on activities designed to prevent isolation and disruptive behaviors, with a focus on interaction and support. Discover effective relaxation techniques and movement-based activities suitable for special needs students and the entire class.
The 4Cs: Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication and Collaboration in Schools
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.
ICT Tools for a Creative and Collaborative Classroom
Discover online applications and environments, focusing specifically on web solutions that foster inclusivity and sustainability, in order to boost collaborative work, creativity, and engagement.
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.
ChatGPT and Basic AI Tools
Explore the basic concepts of Artificial Intelligence in education to empower teachers to use basic AI tools, such as ChatGPT, to enhance teaching and learning. Learn how to use AI tools to decrease the workload.
Tablets and Smartphones: Using Mobile Devices as Educational Tools
Discover new ways to incorporate technology into your lessons, learn how to use software, social media platforms, and apps for communication, group management, and fostering collaboration, while discussing ethical and safety issues.
Game-Based Learning and Gamification in the Classroom
Discover the concept of gamification, with a focus on social and educational games to make learning activities more exciting and effective. Create a game of your own after being introduced to some concepts and models of game design.
A Happy Lesson: Valuable Tips to Create a Joyful Classroom
Gain more knowledge about the characteristics of a happy mindset and establish routines that lead to joyful days, and practice the 4C’s of education to know and review these vital skills for success in school and beyond.
ICT in the Classroom: Innovative Tools to Facilitate Students Learning, Collaboration and Creativity
Acquire crucial knowledge to use, select, and effectively incorporate ICT tools in everyday teaching in order to boost creativity, motivation, and engagement.
Introduction to the Finnish Education Model
Gain a better understanding of Finland’s progressive style of teaching and practical methods. Explore various student-centered approaches that make teaching and learning more holistic.
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.
Effective Pedagogies for 21st-Century Learning
Learn how to embrace new pedagogical practices to effectively promote the acquisition of soft skills in mainstream education. Explore practical know-how on four fundamental student-centered approaches.
Facing Diversity: Intercultural Classroom Management
Explore intercultural educational practices and address communication issues. Engage in positive interactions regardless of your or the students' background.
Learning Outside the Classroom in Finland
Learn how to plan and implement learning outside the classroom in a meaningful, fun, and safe way. Discover the key principles and benefits of outdoor learning and experience the power of outdoor education.
Project-Based Learning (PBL) in Museums and Cultural Heritage Sites
Discover how to build and implement PBL strategies in the classroom, incorporating activities and information from museums and cultural heritage sites into these projects. Learn how to organize engaging and immersive cultural visits through PBL.
Project-Based Learning (PBL): Make Students’ Learning Real and Effective!
Discover Project-Based Learning and an array of strategies to integrate into the curriculum using the latest tools and techniques. Create and carry out your own PBL project to boost student engagement and assure long-lasting retention of knowledge.
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.
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.
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.
Environmental Education in Finland: the Eco-Social Approach
Discover the Finnish approach to environmental education that emphasizes each individual’s capacity to contribute to a sustainable future. Learn to support the students' personal relationship with nature and active citizenship.
Managing a Diverse Classroom: Facing Upcoming Challenges
Learn to manage a classroom through experiential learning and develop innovative methods to enhance motivation and collaboration among diverse student groups, including migrants and those with special educational needs.
Arts for the Inclusion of Migrants, Refugees, and Disadvantaged Populations
Discover how to transcend language and cultural barriers in order to create a completely inclusive environment, sensible to residual effects of trauma and relocation.
Including Sustainability Education in Everyday Classes with PBL
Acquire an understanding of the term “sustainability” and discover its impacts on our daily lives. Learn to transmit this knowledge to the students using innovative teaching methods, such as Project-Based Learning.
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.
Rediscovering the Roots of Democracy: From Ancient Greece to the European Union
Explore Ancient Greek democracy and its influence on modern societies and lifestyles. Reflect on current values and principles within the EU and discover strategies to empower students as active members of society.
Agenda 2030: ICT Tools for Sustainable Development
Discover a selection of global goals from the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in the classroom with the support of digital technologies.
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.
Project-Based Learning for Primary School
Deepen your knowledge about PBL. Discover which tools are best for the students, how to effectively evaluate their learning, and how to be a good mentor in order to promote critical thinking, autonomy, collaboration, and other 21st-century skills.
Student-Centered Classroom: Teachers as Promoters of Active Learning
Discover how to create a student-centered learning environment sustaining autonomy and cooperation. Explore new methods like the Flipped Classroom, Project-Based Learning, Problem-Based Learning, Case-Based Instruction and Discovery Learning.
Student-Centered Education: Making Learning Exciting and Long Lasting
Identify strategies to help students develop key competencies for nowadays’ challenges: autonomy, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills. Create a student-centered environment for many learning modalities and styles.
Team Building for School: Play and Fun, Building Educators’ Communities
Understand how a positive school environment, teacher collaboration, and motivation impact students' learning. Learn to create team-building activities for cooperation and collaborative problem-solving.
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.
AI-Enhanced Learning Experiences: The Future of Education
Gain a deep understanding of AI’s role and impact on educational leadership for K-12 institutions. Discover how to use AI assistant tools for strategic planning in educational settings.
Bullying Prevention and EdTech for a Wholesome School Environment
Learn how to create a healthy learning environment where bullying and discrimination prevention will be taken care of. Get inspired on how to integrate ICT into class, practicing methodologies to understand prejudice and prevent conflicts.
Differentiated Instruction: Inclusive Strategies for Successful Learning
Explore the adaptability and variety of individual student needs. Learn to design tailored lesson plans and build a positive learning environment with differentiated content.
Effective School Leadership: Implementing Continuing Learning for All
Discover how to plan for impactful interventions, identify application opportunities for yourselves and your schools. Learn to plan effective and equitable Professional Learning activities.
Fostering Active Democratic Participation Through Global Citizenship Education
Discover different forms of inequality and their chain of circumstances. Explore how Global Citizenship Education (GCE) can be used as an instrument to promote equal economic, political, and social rights and opportunities.
ICT as a Tool for a Student-Centered Classroom
Learn to effectively integrate ICT into your teaching, all while putting the pupils at the center of the learning process. Discover techniques for revision, collaboration, and note-taking, among others.
Learning Through Collaboration and Cooperation
Learn to implement and manage collaborative and cooperative learning strategies in the classroom, improving school relationships, promoting personal and social growth, and making the learning process more engaging and more effective.
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.
Project-Based Learning for Pre-school
Discover PBL through inspiring examples and learn how to incorporate it into your teaching. Identify tools for preschool students and become a mentor promoting problem-solving, critical thinking, autonomy, collaboration, and 21st-century skills.
Strategies for Understanding and Engaging Teenagers in Learning
Discover effective strategies to communicate better with teenage students by reflecting on their perspective. Explore different techniques to help them become more autonomous, responsible, and motivated during the learning process.
Take the Best Teacher out of Yourself
Reflect on your teaching methods and discover new, effective, and motivating media and material to use in the classroom. Explore realistic solution strategies to identify your teaching strengths and improve your competencies.
The Collaborative Classroom: Teachers as Coaches, Classrooms as Teams
Reflect on the effects of different educational approaches on the students. Explore the concepts of team coaching and team learning as innovative techniques that encourage and promote collaboration.
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.
Collaborative Leadership: Empowering School Communities for Change
Practice a variety of leadership core skills and reflect on how to use project-based learning as a methodology for lesson planning, community involvement, and action.
Creating Storyworlds to Foster Students’ Engagement and Learning
Discover new ways to introduce students to story building while also keeping the classroom inclusive and fostering 21st-century skills, such as critical thinking and effective communication.
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.
Effective Communication Strategies for Supportive Parent-Teacher Relations
Discover an array of communication strategies to adapt your teaching and collaboration with the parents of the students to modern standards, both in person and through digital educational platforms.
Future Proof Your School: Navigating the Challenges of Modern Education
Think about simple, practical, logistical changes that have been already introduced in other schools and European countries to help teachers teach and learners learn, while still following the legal requirements of the education laws.
Leadership Competencies and Skills for Teachers
Learn how to support the professional development of your colleagues as well as how to collaborate with the students' families, promote cooperation within the school community, and support organizational change.
Nordic Education Excellence Unveiled
Explore the excellence of Nordic education systems, focusing on creativity, inclusivity, and holistic learning. Gain insights into active learning, interdisciplinary methods, and equal opportunities that define Nordic success.
Popular Approaches for Inclusion: Don Milani, Freire, Freinet, Malaguzzi and More
Learn different strategies and techniques to enhance individual and collective responsibility, increase motivation, collaboration, and inclusion among the learners, and educate them to promote active participation and social change.
Service Learning: Environmental Projects for Your Classroom… and Beyond
Explore strategies for students to investigate local natural and man-made environments. Create opportunities to visit interesting local areas and connect with service-based organizations influencing the community environment.
Solve Conflict and Build Relationships with Drama Games
Learn how to employ drama games to cultivate positive relationships among students and foster a more constructive learning environment. Discover a powerful new tool to reshape connections and contribute to the overall well-being of the community.
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.