Course Topic: Positive School Environment
A positive school environment allows students and teachers to feel emotionally and physically safe. It is an environment in which students can express themselves freely.
Good student-teacher communication and collaboration make school a good place to be, a place in which students feel comfortable to be themselves.
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Develop an understanding of the main concepts and issues related to ecology through reflection on the role of education in promoting environmental awareness.
ICT and Outdoor Teaching and Learning
Acquire an understanding of the support that any external environment can provide in outdoor teaching with the aid of the right ICT tools. Discover an array of practice examples to design novel tasks and activities for the students.
Happy Schools: Positive Education for Well-Being and Life-Skills Development
Learn to design programs that integrate academics with character strengthening and well-being by exploring the fundamentals of Positive Psychology, along with the theories and techniques of Positive Education.
Teaching for a Sustainable World: Climate Change and Global Citizenship
Deepen your knowledge about issues connected to climate change and incorporate these themes into your teaching. Develop practical strategies and create projects involving the entire school.
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.
Design the Positive: Positive Thinking, Positive Communication and Positive School Spaces
Acquire key insights into positive communication to nurture a positive mindset and alleviate negative self-talk. Reflect on how the surrounding environment can convert negative communication into positive relationships.
Coaching and Mentoring to Support Teachers
Learn the basic principles and techniques of mentoring, while developing crucial skills such as rapport-building and classroom observation. Gain an understanding of how to contribute to building a school culture.
Preventing Early School Leaving: Strategies and Tools for Teachers
Explore different tools to prevent early school leaving and engage in practical activities to assess the risks and potentialities of your schools. Focus on national and international youth exchanges, trips, and different activities.
Inclusive Education for School Leaders: Setting the Vision and Agenda
Acquire strategic managerial tools to promote inclusion in schools. Explore different leadership approaches and develop skills to create inclusive environments. Learn how to assess and improve school inclusivity.
The Social, the Emotional, and the Digital Approach
Acquire a deeper understanding of the connotations and implications of diversity. Discover strategies to prevent conflicts and promote emotional literacy among your students. Learn about digital tools to use for these goals.
Emotional Intelligence Tools to Understand and Respond to Trauma
Explore strategies for classroom management that involve teaching emotional intelligence, creating a psychologically safe learning environment, and mitigating the adverse effects of trauma.
Exploring Biodiversity and Ecology Through the Lens of Creativity and Culture
Learn how to regain contact with the natural habitat and help the students do it by combining hands-on ecology with visual arts, storytelling, music, and others.
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.
Neuroscience: Understand How Your Students Learn
Deepen your understanding of the learning process, assisting your students in reaching their full potential. Discover how to integrate realistic neuroeducation strategies into the classroom for long-lasting retention of knowledge.
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.
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.
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.
Gender and Sexuality: How to Support and Guide Your Students
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 disclosure of their own sexuality.
How Digital Tools Can Help Running Your School
Develop an understanding of the importance of digital tools in the maintenance of solidity, focus on leadership. Learn how to successfully meet the needs of learners, teachers and administration.
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.
Positive Behavior Strategies for an Effective Classroom Climate: A Case Study Approach
Gain insight into socio-emotional and behavioral learning to facilitate students' adaptation to the classroom. Explore diverse preventive and reactive strategies to address students' needs effectively.
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.
Creating Safe Classrooms for Trauma-Affected Students
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.
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.
Empowering Girls in Science and STEM: A Practical Guide for Teachers
Discover effective techniques to learn how to create a more inclusive and equitable classroom environment, where girls can express their full potential.
Engaging the School Communities for Holistic Education
Learn to foster a positive learning environment, promote students' well-being, engage families, implement innovative methodologies like Playful Learning, reduce stress, and create a cohesive school community.
LGBTQIA+ in Education: Building Empathy and Acceptance
Gain a comprehensive understanding of LGBTQIA+ identities to foster empathy, acceptance, and inclusivity in the classroom. Learn strategies to address biases and prejudices and create a more supportive educational environment for students.
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.