C4: Fourth short-term joint staff training event – June 28 – July 2, 2021, Santarem – Portugal
We are really happy that we managed to organize the last short-term joint staff training event as a face-to-face meeting! After the long period of lockdown and the restrictions all schools had to deal with, at the very end of the project we succeeded in holding a physical mobility in Santarem, Portugal. 33 foreign participants from Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Spain and Greece, as well as representatives of the host organization, Instituto Politécnico de Santarém, joined the trainings and shared experience about the implementation process in the participating countries. The training involved plenary sessions and simulations of training activities during which the participants took part in practical activities. So many splendid ideas about delivering the training activities! Well done guys! You have done a great job!
Instituto Politecnico de Santarem made us feel at home in Santarem, helped us see the most interesting sites in the city, and get to know and feel the way the Portuguese people live.
Last, but not least, on our way to Lisbon, we visited the amazing town of Sintra and Quinta da Regaleira.
The way back home was a real challenge for some of us – especially the ones who had connecting flights through Germany. Due to the complicated situation with the Delta variant in Portugal Germany cancelled flights from Portugal, so we had to fly to Zurich and Vienna and this took us a couple of days longer. But, finally, we all arrived back home, a bit tired, but full of wonderful memories from the great time we had in Portugal!
Third short-term joint staff training event – Online Training (Moodle Course), November, 2 – 6, 2020
“My Europe – Your Europe – Your Say” project has launched a 5-day online joint staff training event which will empower the participants with the skills and knowledge how to organize relevant training sessions for their students so that they become more open-minded and accepting differences.
Me-You-Us project: Human Rights, Diversity and Active citizenship Education – PART I
Me-You-Us project: Human Rights, Diversity and Active citizenship Education – PART II
Me-You-Us project: Human Rights, Diversity and Active citizenship Education – PART III
Second short-term joint staff training event – February 3 – 7, 2020
Madrid, Spain
The second short-term joint staff training event was hosted by the Spanish partners. 35 foreign participants from Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Portugal and Greece and 9 Spanish teachers and staff of Altius Foundation joined the trainings and shared ideas about the teaching and learning process in the participating countries. The meeting was held in Salesianos Estrecho school.
The training involved plenary sessions and simulations of training activities during which the participants were split in two groups who worked simultaneously.
Agendas of the two group – can be downloaded here.
The training sessions were highly interactive and practical. The participants stepped in the shoes of students, which they enjoyed a lot, and participated in the planned activities – creating drama sketches, artistic work, discussions, organized events, etc. Each training session was followed, and sometimes interrupted by discussions when they commented the proposed activities from the perspective of teachers, suggested adaptations of the lessons considering the specifics of their students and countries, shared cases from their school life, etc.
Altius Foundation made us feel at home in Madrid, helped us see the most interesting sites in the city, and get to know and feel the way local people live.
First short-term joint staff training event – September, Craiova, Romania
The first short-term joint staff training event was hosted by the Romanian partners. The participants comprised 28 foreign participants and 8 Romanian teachers and staff of the school inspectorate of Dolj county.
The training involved plenary sessions and simulations of training activities during which the participants were split in two groups because of the group dynamics – working is such a big group wouldn’t ne efficient.
Agendas for the 3 groups who held training sessions simultaneously
Group 1 – agenda
Group 2 – agenda
The training sessions were highly interactive and practical. The participants stepped in the shoes of students, which they enjoyed a lot, and participated in the planned activities – creating sketches, artistic work, discussions, etc. After each training session, they returned to their personality as teachers, and discussed the training, the way they might possibly adapt it with their students considering the local context, discussed case studies from their school life, etc.
After the end of event, all participants filled in an evaluation form (available below).
