ERASMUS PLUS KA1 STAFF MOBILITY  TRAINING COURSE

Creativity in Teaching and Learning using ICT: The Digital Classroom

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Creativity in Teaching and Learning using ICT: The Digital Classroom

The course is designed to help teachers to start using Web 2.0 technologies in everyday classroom in a practical and realistic way, especially blogs Blogger and the educational platform Edmodo.

Participants will learn different technological tools and strategies to create a digital classroom

The course is designed to help teachers to start using Web 2.0 technologies in everyday classroom in a practical and realistic way. This course is intended for anyone with a desire to increase their skills in bringing technology into the classroom. The course content is not limited to teachers of a specific subject. On the contrary it is open to teachers of all subjects and levels. The aim of the course is to enable participants to use ICT tools though  Web 2.0, Social Networking, Blogging and Edmodo from a didactical perspective and enhancing language interdisciplinary inquiry through a Digital Classroom.

Preparation

Before the training, selected participants will be invited to fill in a questionnaire in which they can present their respective views on the training. Prior to the start of the course, participants will receive recommended reading and course material and tutorials relevant to the course contents. They will also receive practical information for the course and a Guide about Alcalá de Henares and other places to visit.

Objectives

•  Provide teachers with practical ideas for how they can incorporate technology into their existing lessons.
•  Providing general information about ICT within various classes
•  Defining ICT usage in education with its benefits, provide teachers with practical ideas for how they can incorporate technology into their existing lessons.
•  Familiarize teachers with current Web 2.0 and Internet trends
• Giving a space for exchange of experiences and good practices among people coming from different countries who work in the same field
• Higher motivation to remain on task by working in small groups;
• Developing actively and constructively students’ involvement in the work at class;
• Encouraging students to take the ownership of their own learning;
• Improving teamwork skills through the use of ICT;
• Exchanging experiences in cooperative and collaborative learning process as long as in creativity and innovation;
• Sharing of best practice in teaching and learning, using ICT.

   Our course enables teachers to become confident and competent enough to create a digital classroom 

  Methodology
 

         Course work will contain a mix of theoretical and practical knowledge. Participants will be given the theoretical information that they need to create and their own learning practice in order to incoprporate ICT in their lessons. Using this theoretical knowledge,  they will then   complete  several practical tasks designed to create a digital classroom.

    Follow up

    Cervantes Training will send more materials to participants after the course to guide the implementation of course contents into their institutions. We will be   available for consults via email to clarify doubts, offer advice after the course.

    Enrolment Fees

    560 Euros*- Course Price includes: Registration Fees and tuition for the course -7 days-, Course Material- before and after the course, dossier  with    information material about for sightseeing, Certificate of Attendance with learning       outcomes and Europass (Europass is issued upon request). 

  Each participant needs to bring his own  laptop. We don’t provide computers.

We also offer the possibility to attend for 5-day training courses from Monday to Friday (400 Euros)

APPLY ERASMUS+ KA1 GRANT STARTS IN JANUARY 2015!

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS WILL BE 2016.

Cervantes Training helps all pre-registered applicants in our courses in order to write successful project proposals, supporting teachers and schools at all times. We provide kind of "pre-filled" application to be adapted by schools into their own settings, and context

Please contact cervantestraining@outlook.com

Course fee for all our courses: 490 Euros (7-day training)

We also offer the possibility to attend for 5-day training courses from Monday to Friday (350 Euros)

If interested in attending any of our courses in other dates along the academic course please contact us since we launch other editions upon request