Thematic field of training: GENERAL IN-SERVICE TRAINING
Language used for the training: ENGLISH
Host Institutions: NGO Friends of Education – Skopje, North Macedonia
Friends of Education – Macedonian educators hub (friends-of-education.org) and Easy4Teachers Academy EASY4TEACHERS (iamlearner.net)
https://www.friends-of-education.org
Organisation PIC: 905555432
Course Dates: Academic Year 2024 – 2025
Location: Ohrid (Macedonia)
Dates:
24.06.2024 – 30.06.2024
01.07.2024- 07.07.2024
21.08.2024 – 27.08.2024
23.09.2024 – 29.09.2024
23.06.2025 -29.06. 2025
15.08.2025 – 21.08.2025
Certification: Certificate of attendance with description of training content and time input.
Contacts:
– Dr Marina Connell : +44 7494 357108
– Friends of Education: friendsofeducation@outlook.com
Fee in Euros: €600
Cancellation rules: Cancellation is possible until 30 days before the start of the course.
Special remarks: A pre-registration is required.
Tutors:
– Easy4Teachers / I Am Learner (Dr Marina Connell; John Connell)
– NGO: Friends of Education (Marina Tanasoska Dzeparoska, Elena Apostoloska, Zorica Petroska, Darko Taleski, Bojan Vasilev)
Education sector of participants:
* School and pre-school education (pre-primary, primary, general secondary, vocational secondary, special education for disabled persons)
* Adult education (adult education provider, adult education for disabled persons, higher education institution offering outreach courses for adults, other sectors of adult education)
Target audience:
* teachers (primary, secondary, vocational, adult, special needs)
* teacher trainers
* counsellors
* principals/managers/headteachers of schools/organizations offering adult education
* other (paid or voluntary) management staff in the institution/organization who wishes to improve ICT Skills in this area
Preparation: This course does not require any specific pre-course knowledge or reading, but a pre-course questionnaire will be sent to all participants so that trainers can assess needs and tailor the course appropriately. Those participants who are not teachers will be asked about their interest in the course and their expectations from it as well as the level of their familiarity with technology. Letters of enrolment will be sent to all participants. Participants will be encouraged to bring their own laptops or other devices if possible, to retain records of any projects & materials that will be created during the course.
Methodology: This course consists of input sessions, workshops, and presentations. It is highly interactive and participants are expected to take an active role in all sessions, experiencing, but also adding, to the activities while employing “WebQuest” and “learning by doing” methodologies. They will be introduced to coding and robotics, various game-based activities and a number of digital tools that they can then use in their own classrooms. They can also build upon what is presented, and learn how to adapt and improve what they learn to suit their own and their students’ future needs.
Follow-Up: Participants will be given opportunities to create their own resources, which can then be shared, discussed, analyzed and, of course, taken away with them after the course to use and re-use in their own classrooms. A Facebook group (EASY4TEACHERS) will be created for all participants to allow discussion and comment to continue beyond the course.
Course description:
The course has been created for primary teachers who wish to introduce their students to the important domain of coding and robotics. It will seek to give teachers the knowledge and the skills to enable them to engage their students with elementary and fun pre-coding activities (which require no special equipment or software) before moving on to more advanced activities involving the use of block-coding languages and robotics devices designed especially for use in the primary classroom.
The focus will be on enjoyable activities and teachers will experience a gradual progression from simple physical activities aimed at introducing students to some of the core concepts in coding and robotics through to engaging problem-solving exercises with real robots and easy-to-learn programming languages.
Given the importance of STEM in the modern world, teachers will complete this course with the skills, competences and the confidence to allow them to give their students some of the skills and knowledge that will be crucial to them in their lives ahead. We will take an interdisciplinary approach throughout so that teachers will leave with an understanding of how they can make coding and robotics an integral part of the broader primary curriculum.