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Dille2023 – Team coaching for project-based learning #2
As promised, this is the follow up from the University for Foreigners of Perugia for Dille2023 blog on Team coaching for project-based learning. (Read here if you missed it). This time we will focus on the Project Management phases and the basics of what goes into...
“…it has changed my approach to teaching”
As a teacher, I was able to participate in the "Your Students today…Leaders tomorrow – Coaching Techniques for Language Teachers to Enhance Teenagers’ 21st Century Competencies" course a few years back and it has changed my approach to teaching, especially my teen...
Coaching techniques for language teachers. Enrollments open for the next course
What if there was a course, that you could take part in, to help you empower your students outside the normal language classroom. Well, you are in luck. The course Your Students today…Leaders tomorrow… Coaching Techniques for Language Teachers to Enhance Teenagers’...
Teamwork in the language classroom. AISLi Training for Excellence
Last week was the final teaching session for AISLi Training for Excellence professional development program 2022-2023 and this training was held online during a zoom call. This seminar was titled "Teamwork in the language classroom: a magical mixture of creative...
Dille2023 – Team coaching for project-based learning
Educators from all over the world had the chance to attend and speak at the University for Foreigners of Perugia for Dille2023. This big event hosted the VIII International Congress of the Italian Society of Teaching of Languages and Educational Linguistics. I had the...
My thirst for knowledge never stops!
The past two years have been packed with events. I have attended several conferences and presented at most of them. After this tour de force has finished, I felt drained. Do you think that my first thought was to go on holiday and take a rest? No way! I felt drained...
Project-based learning e Team work: lo sviluppo della leadership a scuola
Di seguito, un nuovo articolo scritto per Confederex dal titolo “Il project-based learning ed il team work, due modelli operativi per lo sviluppo della leadership a scuola". Nella moderna letteratura, soprattutto quella legata al mondo del lavoro, si legge sempre più...
2a edizione High Impact Teenage Leader
Sono passate due settimane dalla cerimonia finale della seconda edizione di High Impact Teenage Leader. Un progetto che ha visto protagonisti undici ragazzi delle scuole superiori della provincia di Catania. Alessia, Azzurra, Claudia, Diane, Elisa, Gabriele, Giulia,...
Be the Sparkle of Change, Be a Teacher Coach!
By Teaching Stories - Old and New (online, annual magazine for teachers) - August 2022 - Cătălina Cocan To coach or not to coach? This is the question that many teachers ask themselves when talking about the need to acquire coaching skills to enhance students’...
Dal lavoro in classe ai PCTO
Di seguito, un articolo che ho scritto per Confederex dal titolo "L’importanza del coaching nel contesto scuola: dal lavoro in classe ai PCTO" Viviamo in un mondo in rapida evoluzione e pertanto, come educatori, abbiamo il dovere di dare ai nostri studenti le...
Life Competencies in Action #6
Un buon PCTO è quello in cui gli studenti hanno la possibilità di imparare. Imparare davvero come si svolge un lavoro. Non solo stare a guardare o svolgere lavoretti inutili e non professionalizzanti ma capire le strategie analitiche ed operative che stanno dietro ad...
Life Competencies in Action #5
La peculiarità del PCTO Life Competencies in Action è che gli studenti hanno la titolarità sulla scelta dei progetti su cui lavorare per mettere in pratica, al meglio, le loro competenze trasversali sostenendo gli Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibili e l’Agenda 2030. Uno...