Course overview

Many studies and researches have proven how soft skills are directly linked to success. This is especially true in the education field, where skills that characterize relationships with other people such as communication, language, personal habits, interpersonal skills, managing people, leadership, etc. are even more crucial and relevant. Soft skills are in contrast to hard skills, which are generally easily quantifiable and measurable, but they are not less important than those.
By participating in this course participants will improve their soft skills such as working in a multicultural environment, managing a team, expressing and recognizing emotions, finding their own leadership style, managing responsibly conflicts, delivering attractive public speeches and communicating in an assertive way.


​Learning outcomes

This structured intense course aims to enable participants to improve their soft skills such as teamwork, working in a multicultural environment, managing a team, leadership, crisis and conflict management, public speaking and communication, meeting management.
The general aim of this course is to foster excellence in education by empowering teachers, trainers, headmasters and other education staff to improve their soft skills together with other participants and trainers throughout all Europe gaining as well a broader understanding of education in Europe and exchanging best practices and experiences.
Thanks to this course the participants will:
  • Acquire knowledge and tools about teamworking and team management, conflict management, meeting management, public speaking and communication through specific practical learning sessions;
  • Improve their practical soft skills through group exercises and tools’ simulations;
  • Cooperate and learn in international context improving their capacity to communicate in English and teamwork in a multicultural environment;
  • Improve their Curriculum Vitae competences and their employability perspectives;
  • Exchange best practices and share experiences with participants and staff coming throughout Europe;
  • Make contacts with individuals and organizations working in the education field in Europe through everyday cooperation, networking and team-building activities;
 

Courses planned

2023
29/01/2023 - 04/02/2023 (Palermo)
26/02/2023 - 04/03/2023 (Tenerife)
23/04/2023 - 29/04/2023  (Bologna)
25/06/2023 - 01/07/2023  (Tenerife)
30/07/2023 - 05/08/2023 (Palermo)
27/08/2023 - 02/09/2023 (Bologna)
08/10/2023 - 14/10/2023 (Tenerife)
03/12/2023 - 09/12/2023 (Bologna)

2024
21/01/2024 - 27/01/2024 (Palermo)
25/02/2024 - 02/03/2024 (Tenerife)
07/04/2024 - 13/04/2024 (Bologna)
23/06/2024 - 29/06/2024 (Tenerife)
28/07/2024 - 03/08/2024 (Palermo)
25/08/2024 - 31/08/2024 (Bologna)
13/10/2024 - 19/10/2024 (Tenerife)
01/12/2024 - 07/12/2024 (Bologna)
01/12/2024 - 07/12/2024 (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, kindergarten 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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​"If you want to solve a problem and don’t know how, join the group and the course of IFOM!"

- Branko Kumer, Slovenia

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"The organisation of the course was very well structured. The trainer Giulia very clear, sympathetic, confident, creative. It was pleasure to work with such a young and clever person"
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​- Daiva Vaičiūnienė, Lithuania

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"It was a really useful course which gave me the opportunity to reflect on myself as a person and as a  teacher. It made me more confident and taught me how to improve my relationships with others. A big praise to our trainers, Francesco and Silvana, they were really helpful and cheerful."

- Jekaterina Simane, Latvia

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"I would strongly recommend this course because through a lot of group activities that can even be used in the class we organized and developed our knowledge about public speech, leadership, teamwork and conflict management.”

- Parthena Karatzoglou, Greece

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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 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
 - 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
- Introduction to Soft Skills and Key Competences in education
- Five Pillars of Emotional Intelligence
-  Practical group work, role plays and simulations
Tuesday
- Goleman’s leadership styles and the role of Emotional Intelligence
- The importance of teamwork: effective dynamics and roles
- The key value of membership in education
- Practical group work, role plays and simulations
- Cultural activities in the venue’s city
Wednesday
-  Discovering the impact of our communication style
-  Assertiveness as a key of effective communication
-  Learning how to say no
-  Practical group work, role plays and simulations
-  Optional cultural visit outside the venue’s city (Florence, Cefalù, El Teide…)
Thursday
-  Learning to speak Body Language and mastering Non Verbal communication
-  How to plan a public speech and become an effective public speaker
-  Designing and delivering a powerful, meaningful presentation or public speech
-  Successful strategies in dealing with behavioral challenges in the education environment
-  Practical group work, role plays and simulations
Friday
-  Changing  perspectives: is conflict always bad?
-  The 3 keys about conflict management
-  The Thomas-Kilmann model: five strategies to handle a conflict
-  Practical group work, role plays and simulations
-  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 in another major city (not included)
- 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.

Videos and photos of previous training courses

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