Course overview

Nowadays we are witnessing a significant trend towards rethinking the role of assessment in education. Traditional assessment and grading systems are increasingly blamed for harming students, besides giving no relevant insight into students’ learning outcomes. In recent decades, teachers and education staff have demonstrated a growing interest in the application of formative assessment and feedback management in education, which are nowadays considered to be among the most effective classroom management as instructional strategies.
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By taking part in this training course, participants will learn how to effectively and purposefully use assessment and feedback strategies in the classroom with the aim of enhancing teachers’ awareness of students’ understanding and students’ ability to self-check and acquire greater confidence and responsibility towards the learning process. The course will additionally help teachers and education staff to improve the way they provide feedback to students and their questioning approach, as important elements of a formative assessment strategy. The knowledge and skills gained during the course will thus empower teachers and educators across Europe to strengthen and promote a formative culture in the classroom.

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​Learning outcomes

This course aims to provide teachers and education staff with tools, strategies and best practices to apply  formative assessment and improve feedback management in the classroom. Thanks to this course the participants will:
  • Get familiar with the key principles and benefits of using formative assessment as an instructional strategy;
  • Practice tools  and gain insights to purposefully implement formative assessment in their classroom;
  • Gain knowledge on a wide variety of formative assessment tools, from the fast and simple ones to the more complex and structures ones;
  • Learn different strategies to give students appropriate feedback and support them to act and learn following teacher feedback;
  • Learn how to effectively use questioning strategies to support learning;
  • Be ready to promote a formative culture in the classroom that normalizes struggles and promotes responsibility towards learning;
  • Learn and practice ICT and game-based tools to promote self and peer assessment;
  • Exchange good practices and discuss challenges with fellow teachers and the course trainers.

Courses planned

2023
26/02/2023 - 04/03/2023 (Bologna)
​28/05/2023 - 03/06/2023 (Bologna)
28/05/2023 - 03/06/2023 (Tenerife)
25/06/2023 - 1/07/2023  (Palermo)
10/09/2023 - 16/09/2023 (Tenerife)
17/09/2023 - 23/09/2023  (Bologna)

2024
25/02/2024 - 02/03/2024 (Bologna)
07/04/2024 - 13/04/2024 (Palermo)
05/05/2024 - 11/05/2024 (Tenerife)
26/05/2024 - 01/06/2024 (Bologna)
08/09/2024 - 14/09/2024 (Bologna)
08/09/2024 - 14/09/2024 (Tenerife)
22/09/2024 - 28/09/2024 (Palermo)

​If none of these dates suits you please mind that if there are at least 8 participants interested we may organize an additional session ad-hoc for your school.

Target audience

This course is addressed to teachers, trainers, educational counsellors, career counsellors, school psychologists, headmasters, school management and administrative staff working in primary schools, secondary schools, vocational schools, training centres, adult education schools, higher education and NGOs. Please mind that the course may include teachers from different school levels.

Language

The course is held in English. For groups with at least 8 participants, we can organize an ad-hoc session in a different language. 
Please write an email to info@erasmuslearningacademy.eu to get more information about it.

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"I can strongly recommend this course to anyone who wishes to gain knowledge in the field of formative assessment and works with it at school but haven't quite got the tools to implement it in the organization in a way that is simple and not too overwhelming. Thetrainer was excellent balancing theory and practice perfectly and facilitating a really good atmosphere."

- Anders (Denmark)

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"The training has brought more than ever expected. Contact with colleagues from other countries, well-functioning digital possibilities for education and new, easy-to-use group activities make this training very valuable."

- Eefje - Ron - Chantal - Soumaya - Jojanneke (SG de Overlaat - Waalwijk, Holland)

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Standard daily programme

Please find below the standard indicative daily programme that will be personalized on participants needs and professional profiles.
Our standard program comprises 7 days of course, of which the first one is dedicated to networking, preparation and cultural immersion and the last one to follow up, specific needs and cultural activities. Please note that we always do our best to accommodate the specific needs of our participants in a flexible way, including but not limited to budget restrictions and travel arrangements. Participants can choose to arrive 1 day before the start of the course and/or leave one day after the end of it in order to enjoy a deeper cultural immersion. Upon specific request we can organize longer or shorter versions of this course.
Sunday
 - Participants arrival
 - Orientation and information about the venue and the city 
 - Networking activities
 - Walking tour in the venue’s city
Monday
 -  Course introduction
 -  Teambuilding exercises
 -  Needs and expectations evaluation
 -  Formative assessment as an effective instructional strategy 
 -  Understanding the difference between formative and summative assessment
 -  Reflection and analysis of current assessment practices and tools
Tuesday
-  From fast checks-in to more complex tools: review of commonly used formative assessment strategies 
 -  Focus on Exit and Admit Tickets 
 -  Using rubrics to elicit evidence of students' understanding 
 -  Visual and creative formative assessment strategies 
 -  Cultural activities in the venue’s city
Wednesday
-  How to improve feedback management as a formative assessment strategy 
 -  Feedback analysis: effective feedback components and reframing your language 
 -  Delivering critical feedback and normalizing struggles using a Growth Mindset approach
​ -  Optional cultural visit outside the venue’s city (Florence, Cefalù, El Teide...)
Thursday
-  Questioning strategies: how to phrase thought-provoking questions to stimulate higher levels of thinking and understanding 
 -  Promoting strategies for peer-assessment: becoming an asset for one another 
 -  Peer-assessment vs. regular feedback: models, critique and descriptive feedback to improve student work
Friday
-  Promoting strategies for self-assessment: becoming owners of the learning process 
-  ICT and game-based tools for formative assessment 
-  Practical work on ICT tools
-   Farewell dinner
Saturday
 -  Space for discussion of future cooperation and planning follow up activities
 -  Course roundup and final evaluation
 -  Validation of learning outcomes and certification ceremony
 -  Additional training session tailored to specific needs (optional)
 -  Optional cultural activities or additional guided visit in another major city
 -  Participants departure
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Other relevant facts

  • Methodology
  • Costs and Erasmus+ Funding
  • Certification and Validation of learning outcomes
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We tailor the working methods based upon participants’ needs, attitudes and professional profiles in order to ensure high productivity, effectiveness and transferability into practice.
The standard methodology is highly practical and participative with hands-on approach that comprises real-job examples, case studies examination and simulations. We embrace collaboratively working methods that foster mutual learning and cooperation among participants. Our focus is on learning in an interactive and international environment knowledge applicable to the real contexts and/or in the classroom. The pedagogical methods that we use are based upon experiential training, group and peer activities, learning-by-doing and best practices’ exchange. They include visits with local schools and institutions allowing the participants to better understand the local education system as well as exchange ideas and contacts.
Morning Wrap-up and brief daily evaluations are foreseen to ensure quality of education and to adapt the learning programme to participants' needs better tailoring the education.
We organize optional social, networking and cultural activities in order to give participants the opportunity to know Italy as well as to exchange best-practice and establish professional cooperation and links.
The training and staff team is multinational thus giving a full European dimension to the course.
Teachers, trainers, headmasters and any other staff of education organizations are eligible to receive an Erasmus+ grant covering all the costs to attend our training courses including travel, board and lodging, cultural activities and all fees. Our training courses are tailored to be fully funded by Erasmus+ and we offer different options to ensure the best comfort and quality at a price that is within the Erasmus+ grant.
We are proud to tailor our training courses to both participants' learning and practical needs and to ease your participation at our training courses, we will gladly take care of all the practical arrangements. If you prefer, you can take care of some of the practical arrangements by yourself (e.g. meals, local transport...), though we will manage the organization of your accommodation in order to ensure optimal logistic organization, safety and time-efficiency. We always provide board and lodging in the same hotel in which we organize the course  thus ensuring optimal comfort and potential of networking with the fellow participants. Read more about  how we take care of your subsistence and practical arrangements. 
The most common option that we offer to schools and organisations in 2023 costs 1280 EUR in Bologna, 1220 EUR in Tenerife and 1130 EUR in Palermo and includes course fee, certification and support fee, accommodation in single room, 2 coffee breaks per day, walking tour in the venue’s city, a sum-up dissemination video. This standard option in Bologna and Tenerife includes all meals from Sunday lunch to Saturday lunch, while in Palermo includes ​all breakfasts and three networking meals in local restaurants. For schools sending 2 or more participants we can offer accommodation in double rooms and we can provide as well accommodation for people or relatives accompanying the participants.
When attending our courses, we recommend you to request 9 days of individual support for your subsistence costs, 7 days for the course plus 2 additional days for the travel. In this way you can have more flexibility in planning your stay and you can enjoy all the cultural activities planned from the first to the last day of course. You can read here more about the Erasmus+ funding. Shall you have need any help with filling the budget during the application stage or have any problem with your grant please let us know and we will see how to support you.
At the end of the course, each participant will be awarded a certificate of attendance, together - if requested - with the Europass Mobility Certificate. The certificate are in line with the Erasmus Quality Standards and include a short description of the course and its learning outcomes, dates, venues, the name of the course provider and the course instructor(s).
We support the participants in every step of certification and validation of learning outcomes with specific focus on European instruments and Erasmus plus requirements such as staff mobility/learning agreement, quality commitment and Europass mobility certificate.
We experienced that schools and education organizations may require additional documents to certify the competences learned or the presence in the training course. Upon request we can provide additional certification and reporting documents as well as we provide photos of the training course and a sum-up video that can be used for visibility and dissemination purposes.

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