Italian Course for Teachers and School Staff

Course overview

Italian is the fourth most studied language in the world and the Italian culture fascinates every year millions of tourists that decide to spend their holidays in this land rich in culture, music and literature, and professionals who aim to expand their business capacities through the acquisition of an ancient language like Italian. You will have the chance to participate in an Italian course that will throw you inside the culture of this country and to visit some of the most beautiful cities in Italy.
This intensive Italian language course is offered as a 1-week full immersion in Italian language, ensuring a good balance between grammar topics and conversation. It is designed to be tailored to the needs of two levels of knowledge: Basic (for participants with a low level) and Intermediate (for participants with at least a B1 level). Each participant can choose the level that best suits his/her needs. The groups will be separated to grant homogeneity and ensure language improvement for everyone.

Main objectives

This course aims to improve the participants’ Italian competences through the implementation of experiential language-learning methods and practice as well as cultural immersion in Italy.
The objective of this course is to let the participants know not only the Italian language, but also the cultural everyday and the manners of communication, immersing yourself in the architectural and culinary beauties.
Thanks to this course participants will:

Improve their comprehension of spoken and written Italian by listening and interacting with native speakers;
Master Italian grammar rules from simple to complex structures;
Improve their writing skills and learn how to write a resume, cover letter and other styles of writing in Italian;
Immerse themselves in the culture of Italy, through visits of some of the most beautiful cities of the country, tasting Italian food and experiencing how is to live in Italy;
Participate in group projects and thus strengthen their presentation skills in Italian;
Be introduced to different language learning methods and tools to help further their language study.

Courses planned

2021
25/07/2021-31/07/2021 (Bologna)

2022
24/07/2022-30/07/2022 (Bologna)

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, kindergarten and NGOs.
Please mind that the course may include teachers from different school levels. In case you would like to attend a session tailored for your school level, please write to info@erasmuslearningacademy.eu to check if there is any session planned.

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.

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 arrangement. 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 - Individual orientation and information about the venue and the city - Networking activities - Guided visit in Bologna - Welcome dinner
Monday	- Course introduction - Needs and expectations evaluation - Ice-breaking activities - Teambuilding exercises - Italian Grammar according to Level - Conversation lab
Tuesday	- Italian Grammar - Group Work/Cultural Activities & Games - Discovering Italian Culture - visit to an Italian school - Cultural activities in Bologna and traditional Italian aperitif
Wednesday	- Italian Pronunciation - Conversation Lab - Guided visit in Florence or another major italian city (optional)
Thursday	- Italian Vocabulary - Group Work/Cultural Activities & Games - Discovering Italian Culture - fashion industry
Friday	- Italian Practice Test According to Level - Culture Test - Dinner in traditional Italian restaurant
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) - Cultural activities or additional guided visit in another major Italian city (optional) - Participants departure

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Methodology
Costs and Erasmus+ Funding
Certification and Validation of learning outcomes

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 costs EUR 1220 and includes course fee, certification and support fee, accommodation in single room, 2 coffee breaks per day, 3 meals per day, walking tour in the venue’s city, a sum-up dissemination video and local transport during the course. 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 including a description of training content and as well as its starting and end date, together - if requested - with the Europass Mobility Certificate.
We support the participants in every step of certification an d 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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