Learning outcomes
This course will help participants to further their teaching competencies by:
- Getting to know and apply important aspects of efficient and effective learning in the classroom;
- Designing and teaching exemplary lesson sequences and receiving (video) feedback afterwards;
- Matching learning content and context with the appropriate methods, media and material;
- Implementing strategies of ensuring motivation of each individual in the learning group;
- (Pro)actively dealing with emerging disturbances and conflicts;
- Productively reflecting on their role and identity as a teacher.
Tentative schedule
- Day 1 – Course introduction & learner types
- Contracting
- Expectations, goals, rules, roles
- Setting the frame and maintaining it
- Communicating in the classroom I
- Ensuring comprehensibility & establishing rapport
- Presenting contents and oneself
- Appropriately applying body language, voice & words
- Teaching according to learner types
- Sensory needs of learners & degree of retention
- Contracting
- Day 2 – Motivating learners & brain-appropriate teaching
- Motivating learners
- Listening actively with emotional intelligence
- Taking care of learners‘ psychological needs
- Furthering interactivity in and beyond the classroom
- Brain-appropriate teaching
- Learners’ need for sense, connection, application & repetition
- Motivating learners
- Day 3 – Conflict management & solving of participants’ professional issues
- (Proactively) Dealing with disturbances and conflicts
- Group dynamics
- Ensuring a productive work environment with assertiveness (I-language)
- Mediating conflictual situations
- Solving “burning” issues
- Peer counseling & coaching
- (Proactively) Dealing with disturbances and conflicts
- Day 4 – Designing and teaching lessons (sequences) I
- Designing interactive lessons
- Learning sandwich
- Defining learning goals & managing time
- Giving lessons a thematic, formal, goal- & needs-oriented and didactic structure
- Teaching a newly designed or revised lesson sequence
- Matching learning content & context with appropriate methods, media & material
- Giving & receiving resources-oriented feedback (on request with video feedback)
- Designing interactive lessons
- Day 5 – Teaching lessons (sequences) II & self-reflection
- Teaching a newly designed or revised lesson sequence (continued)
- Self-reflection
- My teaching competencies
- Roles of a teacher
- Day 6 – Course closure & cultural activities
- Course closure
- Course evaluation: round up of acquired competences, feedback, and discussion;
- Lessons learned and action plan
- Awarding of the course Certificate of Attendance.
- Course evaluation: round up of acquired competences, feedback, and discussion;
Prague
2023
04. 12. - 08. 12.
Prague
2024
03. 06. - 07. 06.
21. 10. - 25. 10.
EACH COURSE WILL BE HELD WITH MINIMUM OF 10 COURSE PARTICIPANTS