Topic/ theme: using arts to foster inclusion, non-formal education methods, activities and art tools to ensure inclusion and integration of all students
Learning through: rhythm, art, body movement, imagination, nature, silence, self-discovery, cultural dialogue and fun.
At your request, the courses can be structured for a different schedule (5 or 7 training days).
Sending partners: educational organizations involved in formal, non-formal and informal learning: kindergartens, schools, resource centers and other relevant organization active in education field established in Erasmus+ program countries.
Participants: 20-25 adults involved in education
Course fee: According to the Erasmus+ guide, 80 euros / training day, including course preparation, training, training materials, administration costs, organizational costs, 24 hours emergency support.
Trainers: A multinational team of trainers – Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Greek, Cypriot, Italian,Polish, SALTO affiliated, with training in more than 15 European countries.
Languages used: English, Portuguese, Spanish, French. The training materials will be provided in English. On request, Spanish and French.
Profile of the participants:
The participants are teachers (working in kindergartens, primary schools, secondary schools etc.) or adult trainers active in the sending organization interested in non-formal methods that can be used to include and integrate every student, with or without previous experience, willing to develop themselves professionally not only through the course, but by involving themselves in preparatory and follow up activities. They must be interested in other cultures and in developing the institution’s European dimension.
Objectives:
- Enhancing understanding of the potential of art as an input for thinking critically.
- Understand music as a teaching tool in the inclusive setting
- Gain hands-on experience on lesson planning with art activities
- Encouraging teachers to engage learners in practical learning mechanisms through a participative and creative approach.
- To help teachers understand the students’ different realities and better integrate them in the classroom
- Sharing experiences of art education from different organizations in order to help each of us to be more effective in our work.
- Learning how to teach the content of traditional school subjects through Art
- To develop competences regarding applying art and techniques in different formal settings in order to encourage inclusion
- To understand the dimensions of integration, identity and belonging
- To develop skills for dialogue, tolerance and collaboration, using ART;
- To develop communication, collaboration, presentation, problem-solving, negotiation, critical & creative thinking skills;
- To overcome integration barriers such as poor qualifications and language which may harm immigrants/refugees;
- To share best practices and transfer knowledge and methods between different cultural zones and different learner ages regarding successful inclusive approaches
- To develop the participants’ competences of ensuring harmonious group building (taking into account diversity challenges) and transforming the class as a group into a team by usage of non-formal group dynamics
- To develop better understanding of their own competence as teachers and to develop creative intercultural strategies for dealing with inclusion challenges in their own schools and classrooms
- To be better aware of inclusion issues in different cultures
- To promote the use mediation and negotiation tools in the fight against exclusion of people with fewer opportunities
- To promote European cooperation in the field of education within the framework of the Erasmus+ program by partnership building
Learning outcomes:
By taking part in this training course, the participants will:
- Develop competences regarding applying ART in different formal settings in order to encourage inclusion
- Understand the characteristics of an inclusive and tolerant environment;
- Become aware of the importance of incorporation/integration, identity and belonging
- Develop communication, collaboration, presentation, problem-solving, negotiation, critical & creative thinking skills;
- Develop competences of ensuring harmonious group building (taking into account diversity challenges) and transforming the class as a group into a team
- Have a better understanding of their own competence as teachers and will learn how to develop creative strategies for dealing with inclusion challenges in their own schools and classrooms
- Learn how to understand the students’ different realities and how to better integrate them in the classroom
- Learn how to develop non-formal tools and learn about ways of applying them in education for different age groups
- Have a better confidence in using art and non-formal tools in your school;
- Learn how to use non-formal tools that will help create bonds between the students and the teacher in a way that every student feels included
- Learn how to identify limiting & negative beliefs and how to transform them into positive and supporting ones
- Learn how to introduce new tools & resources within the classroom to foster well-being and reduce early school leaving
- To promote European cooperation in the field of education within the framework of the Erasmus+ program by partnership building
Methodology
A variety of methods will be implemented in order to give both theoretical and practical support to the teachers.
The main methods will be through practical training, exercises, role-playing, cooperative work, various activities and discussions. The content is based on „ learning by doing” combined with ” reflection upon action”. The training course has a holistic approach:
- Experiencing: different educational settings, different non formal education methods (role play, simulation game, exercises etc.)
- Reflecting: on the methods and its impacts, on the power and limits of non-formal education, on building a pedagogical process etc.
- Transferring: to the own reality of participants, in order to improve ways of working with their students
- Sharing: different perceptions, current situations and experiences.
- Developing: the building capacity of the participants (to be transferred to their students) by including them in the decision process of the training course designing
- Lessons learnt and best practices on non-formal education in school activities
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Days |
Modules |
Details of acticity and methodology |
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Day 1 |
Culture and interculturality |
Course introduction |
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Day 2 |
Group dynamics |
Group work: Collaborative concept mapping: What is an inclusive classroom? -Examine full inclusion -Explore art resources, |
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Day 3,4 |
Art in outdoor enviroments |
What is inclusion and what does it take to make it work? – lectures Art in outdoor activities – |
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Day 5,6 |
Non-formal methods for inclusion |
Hands-on experience on choice of music, embedding the activities -Identify the role and -Explore opportunities for -Understand differences for The inclusive school and the inclusive society. Understanding exclusion. |
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Day 7,8 |
Conflict management and mediation |
Conflict in the classroom – forum theatre method. Introduction to
Role play: mediation |
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Day 9 |
Evaluation, dissemination and certification |
Dissemination and valorization activities planning. Using European |