Course Description
The aim of this course is to support teachers who are dealing with teenagers and thus support teenagers who are in a learning process. We will mainly focus on the experiences of the participants teaching this age group and learn about their complex and ever-changing world. We will try to understand the huge changes in a teenager’s brain and how teenagers respond to continuous learning and to their own body changes. We are going to create our own personal practices of how to engage teens in a learning process. We will look at the best practices of treating teenagers with care, sympathy but without getting frustrated or even burn out. We will outline the essentials of a good learning environment for teenagers.
Course Objectives
- to support teachers and teenagers in their teaching and/or learning processes
- to learn about the vulnerability and strength of this age group
- to prepare a personal set of practices for further use
- foster good learning environment
- promote growth
Learning Outcomes
- to – hopefully – create a positive attitude towards our own students dealing with the hardships of teenage hood
- to build fundamental capacity to teach teenagers
- to share difficulties of your teaching career
- to be capable, confident and independent teachers in order to help students become the agent of their own learning
Planned Schedule
| Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6* | |
| 1 | Introduction – group games, getting to know each other. | Using craft techniques, dealing with previous experiences as teachers | Learning about the teenagers’ brain – a scientific point of view | Facing the real teenager – blending ideas with everyday experiences – to what extent are they different from previous generations’ experiences as teenagers? | Creating a set of teaching tools for further usage | Dissemination preparation: SPRE presentation for peers (own and parallel groups) |
| 2 | Collecting experiences of previous teaching processes | Creating an ideal teenager as a learner | How to spot the changes of these biological changes | How to create and foster good learning environment – how to create a welcoming classroom | How to identify ourselves as teachers of a challenging age group | Dissemination preparation: SPRE presentation for peers (own and parallel groups) |
| 3 | Collecting experiences of teaching this age group who cause difficulties and even frustration | Creating the perfect teacher -sharing ideas about fostering good learning environment for the ideal teenager | How to set boundaries in a teaching/learning process – but still how to teach with empathy | End of course discussion – course evaluation | Round-up: discussion of SPRE outcomes, feedback and course evaluation |
*not part of 5-day course, wrap-up takes place on Day 5
Dates and Prices
Conditions
The course complies with all rules as set in the Quality Standards of the Erasmus+ program. Courses are including an extracurricular cultural activity and a welcome lunch or dinner, and study groups are international. Note: should the latter condition not be met, participants will be informed 40 days in advance.
Payment facilities: participants with funding from the actual year’s project budget may ask to request a deposit of EUR 100 to guarantee their places on the course and pay the rest of the fees later.
It is possible to take part in 2 consecutive courses, please book both separately. A price reduction of 15% will be applied.
This course is hosted by Babylon Academy (OID: E10339970) in Budapest (Hungary) and by Talijanska srednja skola Dante Alighieri (OID: E10101077) in Pula (Croatia).
