Course overview

Teamwork is nowadays one of the key soft skills required by the job market, as it is considered an asset towards success. It is hence the general interest of teachers and education to foster a collaborative environment for team working in the classroom, where the teacher becomes a facilitator willing and able to empower students to learn from practical experiences and from each other. This process passes through promoting membership and sense of belonging to the group, recognizing what contribution everyone can give to the group, assigning appropriate roles for performing tasks and putting in place appropriate techniques for assessing teamwork results and providing feedback.
Participating in this training course, participants will get the foundational ideas for defining achievements the result of interdependence and collaboration rather than independence and competition, hence promoting a culture of collaboration in the learning environment.


​Learning outcomes

This training course allows participants to develop their group management skills by using collaborative techniques and reflective methods to build effective teamwork in the classroom and promote a collaborative learning environment. Participants will also learn how to support students' learning process in groups by adopting effective coaching, feedback and formative assessment strategies. 
The general aim of this course is to foster excellence and innovation in education by equipping teachers and education staff with tools and methods for effective teamwork management and how to integrate it into teaching and learning.
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Thanks to this course the participants will:
  • Acquire knowledge and tools about team working, team management and leadership;
  • Learn and practice reflective tools for establishing appropriate norms of behavior and coordination in group work;
  • Learn how to effectively use questioning and coaching strategies to support team working;
  • Learn how to support students self and peer assessment in teamwork as well as how to apply formative assessment strategies;
  • Get to know different strategies to scaffold learning in groups and provide appropriate feedback;
  • Exchange best practices and share experiences about group management with teachers and education staff coming throughout Europe.

Courses planned

2024
28/04/2024 - 04/05/2024 (Bologna)
07/07/2024 - 13/07/2024 (Tenerife)
14/07/2024 - 20/07/2024 (Bologna)
25/08/2024 - 31/08/2024 (Palermo)
06/10/2024 - 12/10/2024 (Tenerife)
17/11/2024 - 23/11/2024 (Bologna)
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2025
12/01/2025 - 18/01/2025 (Tenerife)
15/06/2025 - 21/06/2025 (Bologna)
15/06/2025 - 21/06/2025 (Palermo)
15/06/2025 - 21/06/2025 (Tenerife)
15/06/2025 - 21/06/2025 (Porto)
15/06/2025 - 21/06/2025 (Thessaloniki)
26/10/2025 - 01/11/2025 (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 and NGOs. Please mind that the course may include teachers from different school levels.
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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 [email protected] 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
 -  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
-  Teamwork vs. group work: understanding the difference between groups and teams
-  Analyzing the stages of team growth
-  Characteristics of effective teams: the ingredients of effective collaboration
-  Sharing experiences and best practices about teamwork and group management
Tuesday
-  Preparing students for group work: sharing and accepting norms
-  Teambuilding: promoting sense of belonging and awareness of needs inside groups
-  Analyzing group dynamics: promoting constructive group behaviors
-  Practical group work, role plays and simulation to understand group dynamics
-  Cultural activities in the venue's city
Wednesday
-  Promoting meaningful contribution inside groups
-  Strategies and tools for assigning roles in a team
-  Focus on leadership: analysing Goleman's leadership styles
-  Practical activities and collaborative problem solving exercises in groups
-  Optional cultural visit outside the venue’s city
Thursday
-  The teacher as facilitator: improving observation skills
-  Actively coaching students in the group learning process: tips, tools and strategies
-  Focusing on the positive: fostering a growth mindset inside the group
-  Practical activities, non-formal and experiential learning activities to facilitate group work
Friday
-  Tips and guidelines tools to assess teamwork: formative assessment techniques
-  Students’ self assessment and peer assessment strategies
-  How to give constructive feedback to teams
-  Practical group work and reflection exercises on feedback and assessment
-  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)
 -  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 2025 costs 1405 EUR in Bologna, 1330 EUR in Tenerife and Thessaloniki and 1225 EUR in Palermo, Porto and Rimini 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. The standard option in Bologna, Tenerife and Thessaloniki includes all meals from Sunday lunch to Saturday lunch, while in Palermo, Porto and Rimini includes all breakfasts and three networking meals in local restaurants. Few of our courses include extra services and activities hence having a different pricing option, which will be communicated upon receiving the pre-registration.
​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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