Effective Communication skills and Public Speaking for Teachers

Course overview

Public speaking and communication skills are crucial for teachers, trainers and education staff. Public speaking is the process of performing a presentation or a speech to a live audience in a structured, deliberate manner in order to inform, influence, or entertain them. As for every process, it can be learned and improved. Meanwhile is true that some people have natural communication skills everyone can and shall work on his/her public speaking competences. By attending this course participants will practice and master public speaking techniques, learn how to structure effectively a speech or a presentation and how to listen and engage the audience, receive personalized feedback based on your professional and personal needs.

Main objectives

This Erasmus course aims to improve participants’ practical skills in designing and delivering effective public speeches and presentations. The general aim of this training course is to foster excellence in education by empowering teachers, trainers, headmasters and other education staff to communicate more effectively.
Thanks to this course the participants will:

Acquire knowledge and practical information about public speaking, communication tecniques and learning styles;
Learn how to structure and plan effectively a speech or a presentation and how to listen and engage the audience;
Have the chance to practice and improve their public speaking and communication skills in a positive and supportive environment;
Get personalized guidance and feedback on how to communicate more effectively;
Learn best practices and concrete tips related to delivering effective public speeches and presentations.

Sessions planned

Bologna
30/06/2019 - 06/07/2019
19/07/2020 - 25/07/2020
Palermo
04/08/2019 - 10/08/2019
23/08/2020 - 29/08/2020

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 staff@ifom.info 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 staff@ifom.info 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 (optional) - Welcome dinner
Monday	- Course introduction - Competences ex-ante evaluation - Let’s present yourself: your “first” public speech - The basic elements about public speaking - Reviewing and discussing effective public speeches - Plenary discussion and review of participants public speeches
Tuesday	- Communication and learning styles - How to plan a public speech or a presentation - Practical group work and exercise - Cultural activities in Bologna and traditional Italian aperitif
Wednesday	- The audience: how to listen and engage it - Practical group work and exercises - Guided visit in Florence (optional)
Thursday	- Design and delivering an effective presentation - Group work, design and delivering of an effective presentation
Friday	- Non-verbal communication and body language - Practical group work and exercises - Let’s present yourself again - 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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Other relevant facts

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 that the Erasmus+ grant will be sufficient. Read more about Erasmus+ funding, shall you have any problem with your grant please let us know and we will see how to accommodate your needs.
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, all coffee breaks, 3 meals per day, walking tour in the venue’s city and local transport during the training course. Based on your preferences and budget you can request different services, a less inclusive/cheaper package or you can choose to organize the board and lodging by yourself and opt to just attend the training course. Read more about how we take care of your subsistence.

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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