Soft Skills for Strong Teachers

The course will help the participants to:

• Improve and facilitate communication and active listening
• Improve public speaking, organization, time management
• Acquire knowledge and tools about teamwork
• Boost creativity and problem-solving skills
• Gain insight into the principles of leadership and collaboration
• Reflect upon motivation and how to foster it
• Master concrete tools and activities to be used with the pupils to support them to develop their Soft Skills
• Use emotional intelligence as a tool to involve, motivate and support students

Day 1: What are soft skills

• Course introduction
• Introduction to Soft Skills

Day 2: Communication Skills

• Presentation Skills
• Active Listening Skills

Day 3: Leadership and Teamwork

• What is effective Leadership? Qualities and styles
• How to inspire others?
• Teamwork: benefits, challenges, techniques and strategies

Day 4: Problem solving and stress Management

• Problem-Solving Techniques
• What is Stress Management? Tips, techniques and strategies

Day 5: Course closure

• Goal setting
• Time management

• A blend of lecture format and practical activities
• Assembly and small groups
• Discussions
• Role-plays
• Experiential training,
• Learning-by-doing
• Best practices’ exchange.
• Morning Wrap-up
• Daily evaluations
• Creative games
• Throughout the course, participants are encouraged to reflect on their own practice, consider alternative practices and try out a variety of classroom activities through lesson planning, workshops and presentations.

The general aim of this course:

• Empowering teachers, trainers, headmasters and other education staff to improve their soft skills thus fostering excellence in education
• Exchanging best practices and experiences.
• Making contacts with individuals and organizations working in the education field in Europe through everyday cooperation, networking and team-building activities