ERASMUS+ Course
Course Overview
This course provides participants with practical and meaningful ways to strengthen the social and emotional development of students while deepening their own self-awareness and wellbeing. The training blends essential knowledge with hands-on strategies that help educators create emotionally safe, engaging, and supportive classrooms where students can connect, communicate, and grow. Throughout the week, participants explore how emotions influence learning, how to support students in understanding themselves and others, and how to build positive habits that enhance motivation, resilience, and healthy relationships.
The course emphasizes practical techniques that can be immediately applied in everyday teaching, from emotion recognition and communication skills to conflict resolution, stress management, and ethical decision-making. Participants also have the opportunity to reflect on their own emotional patterns, communication styles, and strengths, developing greater clarity and confidence in their professional role. The course supports both personal development and whole-school improvement, offering concrete tools, ready-to-use activities, and space for planning how to integrate social and emotional learning across different subjects and school cultures.
Learning Outcomes
After the course, participants will be able to:
- •Create emotionally supportive classroom environments where students feel safe to express themselves.
- •Recognize emotional cues and support students in understanding and naming their emotions.
- •Strengthen communication skills, empathy, and collaboration among learners.
- •Guide students in managing their emotions, increasing focus, and reducing stress.
- •Encourage student motivation, participation, and curiosity through emotionally aware approaches.
- •Support positive relationships and teach constructive communication and conflict resolution.
- •Help students make responsible decisions and understand consequences in everyday situations.
- •Develop lesson plans and school-level strategies that integrate social and emotional learning.
Teaching & Learning Methods
All our methods are designed to be highly interactive and hands-on, ensuring a practical and engaging learning experience.
- •Active & Experiential: Learning happens through practical activities, group challenges, and creative problem-solving rather than lectures.
- •Collaborative & Inclusive: We value teamwork, open discussion, and approaches that support every learner’s unique strengths and needs.
- •Innovative & Engaging: Modern tools, playful strategies, and real-world tasks make learning dynamic and inspiring.
- •Reflective & Transformative: Each experience encourages participants to reflect, share insights, and apply new ideas in their own professional contexts.
EU Competence Frameworks
This course aligns with key EU competence frameworks:
- •LifeComp: Supports personal, social and learning-to-learn competences such as self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy, collaboration, and responsibility.
- •DigCompEdu: Encourages pedagogical use of digital tools to foster communication, feedback, collaboration, and emotional wellbeing in digital environments.
- •GreenComp: Contributes to social and emotional aspects of sustainability, such as care for others, responsibility, and constructive participation in the school community.
Erasmus+ Priorities
This course equips participants with skills that respond directly to key Erasmus+ priorities:
- •Inclusion & Diversity: Creating emotionally safe classrooms where students with diverse backgrounds can participate fully. Supporting communication, empathy, and collaboration among mixed groups of learners.
- •Digital Transformation: Using simple digital tools to support emotional check-ins, communication, and reflection. Encouraging healthy and responsible emotional behaviour in online interactions.
- •Sustainability & Wellbeing: Strengthening students’ and teachers’ ability to cope with challenges and adapt to change. Promoting cooperation, prosocial behaviour, and long-term personal wellbeing.
COURSE MODULES & TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
Day 1 – Foundations of SEL
Module 1 – Introduction to social & emotional learning
Explore what SEL is, why it matters for both academic success and wellbeing, and how emotional and social competencies shape everyday classroom life. Understand the core areas of SEL and the role teachers play in modelling these skills.
Module 2 – Teaching SEL in schools
Discover practical approaches for integrating SEL into daily routines and subject lessons. Learn how small classroom habits, expectations, and interactions can consistently build students’ social and emotional competencies over time.
Orientation Walk with a Local Guide (optional, complimentary)
A short post-class city walk for orientation and networking. Voluntary, no fee, separate from the course, and not counted in Erasmus+ hours or outcomes.
Day 2 – Awareness & Social Understanding
Module 3 – Recognizing emotions and self-awareness
Develop classroom techniques that help students identify emotions, understand triggers, and reflect on their feelings. Explore ways to normalise emotional expression and build emotional vocabulary.
Module 4 – Empathy and social awareness
Learn how to support students in understanding others’ perspectives and interpreting emotional cues. Practice strategies that build compassion, cooperation, and healthy peer interactions.
Module 5 – Identity and strength management
Focus on helping students explore their strengths, values, and personal identity. Discover how positive identity development supports motivation, resilience, and long-term wellbeing.
Day 3 – Regulation & Motivation
Module 6 – Self-regulation and stress management
Gain practical tools to help students stay calm, focused, and emotionally grounded. Explore simple routines, sensory-based strategies, and supportive responses to moments of frustration or overload.
Module 7 – Developing motivation and engagement
Understand the connection between emotional needs and student motivation. Learn ways to increase participation, build curiosity, and create learning conditions where students feel capable and engaged.
Day 4 – Relationships, Values & Ethics
Module 8 – Relationship skills and communication
Explore practical communication strategies that foster trust, collaboration, and problem-solving. Learn how to teach boundaries, active listening, and respectful communication in group work and daily interactions.
Module 9 – Values and ethics in the classroom
Explore ways to develop shared values, strengthen class culture, and encourage ethical behaviour. Learn how values shape expectations, routines, and daily choices.
Day 5 – Decision-Making & Implementation
Module 10 – Responsible decision-making
Support students in reflecting on actions, evaluating consequences, and considering the needs of others. Learn classroom practices that build thoughtful and responsible behaviour.
Module 11 – Strategy for SEL in your schools
Create a practical action plan for integrating SEL into your lessons and wider school life. Identify small steps that lead to sustainable change and leave prepared with ready-to-use materials.
Final Reflection
Action Plan • Certificates & Farewell