Empowering Educators: Soft Skills for nurturing Active Citizens – CATANIA
This course is designed to equip teachers, mentors, and educational leaders with the interpersonal and emotional tools needed to inspire and guide students toward active citizenship. Through reflective practices, collaborative learning, and real-world applications, you will explore strategies to cultivate empathy, critical thinking, creativity and ethical leadership in the classroom.
Description
Education is not just about imparting knowledge—it’s about shaping the thinkers, leaders, and engaged citizens of tomorrow. In a rapidly changing world, educators play a pivotal role in fostering not only academic excellence but also the essential soft skills that enable students to collaborate, communicate, and contribute meaningfully to society.
Whether you teach in primary schools, secondary education, or community programs, this course will help you create an inclusive and dynamic learning environment where students feel empowered to engage with their communities, advocate for positive change, and become responsible global citizens. Ƶ us on this transformative journey to redefine education—one soft skill at a time.
Through workshops, case studies, role games, frontal classes and moments of best practices sharing you will gain essential resources and ideas to be adapted and performed in your classes.
Ƶing objectives
- Understand the Role of Soft Skills in Citizenship Education.
- Develop Strategies to Cultivate Soft Skills in Students.
- Design interactive activities that encourage teamwork, leadership, and respectful dialogue in diverse classrooms.
- Foster an Inclusive and Participatory Classroom Environment
- Model and Mentor Active Citizenship
- Connect Classroom Ƶing to Societal Impact
- To acquire the necessary skills to promote creativity values and active citizenship in a transversal way throughout the different subjects and levels.
Methodology & assessment
Participants will attend theoretical sessions, visits, seminars, and practical workshops. This method will lead to the creation of a didactic path built on active participation. All participants will be able to appreciate the pedagogical value of a learning method that is clearly transversal in its approach, which educates the eye to grasp the positive values of cultural interaction, exercising creativity and soft skills.
Everyday there will be a competence and skills assessment, in a formal and informal way.
Materials, digital tools & other learning resources
Participants will be equipped with practical resources, online biography, activity templates and structured projects ready to be modified and adapted in base of their needs.
A Drive folder will be shared among the participants to share their future projects and local activities and to promote the permanent contact among schools.
Certification details
EUROPASS MOBILITY
CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE
LEARNING AGREEMENT
Pricing, packages and other information
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Price:480Euro
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Course package content:
The 480 € includes course fees, transportation for the training activities and the certification of attendance.
Certification support:- Certificate of Attendance
- Europass Mobility Certificate
- Ƶing Agreement
Support for extra services, like accommodation and transfers, can be provided if requested by the participants school.
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Additional information:Description of the services and activities included in the course package (such as accommodation, meals, transport) or available at extra cost.
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Cancellation & changes:
Free cancellation 30 days before the start of the training session.
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Additional information:The options and conditions for change and cancellation, and the policy in case of unforeseen circumstances (force majeure).
Additional information
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Language:English
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Target audience ISCED:Primary education (ISCED 1)Lower secondary education (ISCED 2)Upper secondary education (ISCED 3)
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Target audience type:TeacherHead Teacher / PrincipalNot-for-profit / NGO staff
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Ƶing time:20-25 hours
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