Our courses respond to the needs of teachers around Europe. Our offer of courses changes every year depending on the needs that we detect and the suggestions that we receive from our partner centres and colleagues.
We are preparing our course offer for 2023. In which, as always, there will be courses on information technologies, teaching innovation and, of course, NON-formal activities, but which are essential in teacher training (soft skills, NON-verbal communication techniques, etc.).
In all our courses, the teaching staff are university, primary or secondary school teachers, with specific training in the subject they deal with. We try to have a different teacher every day, because this way you can see more points of view: not all teachers have the same teaching style.
During course hours, we work…. But the day is long and there is time to go to the beach, make friends and more….
COURSE: Nautical and beach sports. Proposals to teach nautical sports techniques in areas WITH or WITHOUT access to the sea
Dates: 27/06/2023 to 02/07/2023
Alicante city overlooks the Mediterranean Sea. Its coastline of open beaches and environments is ideal for the practice of nautical sports and competitions throughout the year. In fact, Alicante is the Departure Port of the famous International Regatta Volvo Ocean Race. Visitors will also find protected seabeds, such as the Tabarca Island Marine Reserve. Taking advantage of Alicante’s unbeatable climate, the calm waters and its endless beaches, in this course we intend to give an overview of the main nautical or beach sports, to refresh the knowledge of those who know the subject and to learn new things for those who are not experts. We are finalising the program. In the coming weeks we will publish more information. For the moment we can assure you that there will be: (1) sailing (on a wind-sailboat); (2) Kayak; (3) Paddle surf; (4) Beach Volley.; and more…
REMARKS (1): Recommended for physical education teachers or sports enthusiasts.
REMARKS: (2) The teaching staff will be a combination of active university, secondary or primary school teachers and, in addition, instructors of nautical activities and flat sports on the beach with extensive experience in teaching children and adults. Their experience in handling children gives them the necessary knowledge to be able to explain what works with children and young people and what does not.
COURSE: New approaches to digital education (for secondary education and VET)
Dates: 03/07/2023 to 07/07/2023
Digital education is one of the goals that the Erasmus+ Programme pursues in its latest edition. As a response to that, we offer this course to improve the digital teaching skills. This course would like to review the most effective tools, applications and new approaches to be applied with our increasingly technological students. The aim of this course is for teachers with user-level computer skills to acquire the skills to create materials and publish or share them with their students using new technologies. The course is developed in a participative way, being the teachers the ones who must elaborate didactic materials, videos, tests, performances and other materials, which must also be reflected in a diary-blog or web-diary that will be elaborated by the participants throughout the course. The contents of the course include Blogging, Applications for online teaching (Meet / Zoom / Webex /Loom and others); Creation of didactic materials (advanced resources in Power point / Advanced GoogleSlide / Style rules for presentations – not everything goes); Create your own Youtube video channel; ESL videos, Canvas; Applications for student participation (Quizzes, Quizlet, Kahoot), Google Resources for Teaching and other free resources.
REMARKS (1): All sessions will be taught by university professors or by active primary or secondary school teachers with experience in each of the technologies.
REMARKS (2): All attendees who follow the course will receive a document accrediting attendance, participation and achievement, certifying 30 hours of dedication.
REMARKS (3): It is highly recommended that those attending the course bring their own laptop, so that they can work more comfortably (in their own language) and, in addition, they will be able to take the applications with which we work installed and well configured.
COURSE: SDGs in educational centres. Successful experiences and visits to unique facilities
Dates: 10/07/2023 to 14/07/2023
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries – developed and developing – in a global partnership. All members of society -and educational centres in particular- should contribute to the best of their ability to the achievement of these goals. In the course we will also study how SDGs are implemented in educational centres. By communicating successful experiences and organizing visits to unique facilities we intend that, (1) active teachers and managers share with the attendees their experiences in implementing measures to train / raise awareness of the SDGs among pupils. We believe that it is interesting to learn about the experiences that have worked and those that have not been successful, in order to avoid repeating the mistakes. But the course also shows (2) some interesting facilities existing in the province of Alicante, which can serve as a model or inspiration to generate useful ideas for attendees.
COURSE: Intensive Spanish language course for education staff
Dates: 17/07/2023 to 21/07/2023
In this course we aim to update your knowledge of Spanish, whatever level it may be. The didactic model we propose is refreshing, with many activities in the street and in real situations, such as shopping, eating out, booking a hotel, finding your way, etc. The goal is that the participants acquire sufficient knowledge of Spanish to be able to move around the city and immerse themselves in the Spanish culture, lifestyle and traditions. The course is designed for any level of previous knowledge, with “help” in five different European languages in case you need it.
REMARKS (1): All sessions will be taught by university professors or by active primary or secondary school teachers with experience in each of the technologies.
REMARKS (2): All attendees who follow the course will receive a document accrediting attendance, participation and achievement, certifying 30 hours of dedication.
COURSE: English as a medium of instruction and CLIL: digital and linguistic tools for teachers
Dates: 17/07/2023 to 21/07/2023
This course is targeted to developing the communicative and methodological skills of teachers interested in teaching in English in primary and secondary education. It is a practical workshop aimed at providing key linguistic resources for classroom management in English, as well as intercultural communication tools for classroom management in plurilingual and pluricultural groups. The aim of this course is (1) given EMI and CLIL teachers first contact with some basic tools to support their writing skills; (2) help to find specific terminology in an easy way; (3) practice to become familiar with classroom language; (4) Learn to adapt teaching materials to facilitate L2 students’ learning and (5) Integrate the contents of the course in a practical realisation.
REMARKS (1): Due to the design and content of the course, it is recommended that participants have at least B1 or equivalent level of English (not compulsory).
REMARKS (2): All sessions will be taught by university professors or by active primary or secondary school teachers with experience in each of the technologies.
REMARKS (3): All attendees who follow the course will receive a document accrediting attendance, participation and achievement, certifying 30 hours of dedication.
COURSE: New ways to teach in STEM and Life Sciences: Successful experiences
Dates: 17/07/2023 to 21/07/2023
As no one could understand a hospital using 20th century procedures, education must also adapt to state-of-the-art teaching procedures. The current trend is that students must learn for themselves, in other words, they must learn how to learn. In this course, we will explore 5 great ways to get students to seek information and learn on their own. Participants will try out these five different teaching styles for themselves as if they were learners: (1) problem-based learning, (2) challenge-based learning, (3) flipped classroom, (4) service-based learning and (5) project-based learning…. Depending on the use of time, other learning modalities, perhaps more specific to certain areas of knowledge, may be considered. In addition to teaching the different models, a critical analysis of each model will be made. The experience of the teachers taking part in the course, this time as students, will enable them to analyse for themselves the strengths and weaknesses of each of the procedures.
REMARKS (1): All sessions will be taught by university lecturers or by active primary or secondary school teachers with experience in each of the methodologies.
REMARKS (2): All those attending the course will receive a document accrediting their attendance, participation, and use of the course, accrediting 30 hours of dedication.
REMARKS (3): It is highly recommended that those attending the course bring their own laptop / tablet to search better the information and in their own language.
COURSE: Outdoor education: a practical course without classroom
Dates: From 24/07/2023 to 28/07/2023
(**) Depending on demand, another edition may be held from 23 to 30 June 2023 to coincide with the two last days of Alicante’s patron saint festivities and the start of summer. It could be a very “special occasion” to immerse in the Spanish culture.
The city, the countryside, the university campus, the sea, the beach… The students’ environment offers numerous didactic resources that allow teaching in which the students, through their own experience, learn by themselves with a significant learning outcome that will be difficult to forget. The didactic model of the course is based on taking advantage of the city of Alicante, its environment and its services as a huge laboratory where teachers turn into students, and they will be able to check the functionality of the model and will be able to devise their own formulas to adapt this model to their areas of knowledge.
COURSE: Experiences of welcoming and integrating immigrant pupils
Dates: 16/10/2023 to 20/10/2023
Alicante and its province are a unique place where (1) high-income people who have their second home here, (2) European civil servants from the European Intellectual Property Office, the largest European agency outside Brussels, and (3) people who had to migrate for economic reasons or because of war, coexist permanently… with the traditional population of Alicante and a large number of tourists who come to enjoy its beaches. All this makes Alicante a multicultural place where it is enough to walk down the street to hear the most diverse languages and see typical costumes from all over the world. In this context, the students of some schools are a melting pot of cultures, where students of more than forty nationalities live together without any problems of coexistence. In this course we intend to share the experiences of teachers and school managers in schools where students from different ethnic groups live together, the interventions that have been successful, but also those that have NOT worked, with an analysis of why they have failed. At the same time, as far as possible, we intend to visit some of these schools to see first-hand how coexistence is managed and how, during recess, children of different origins play and interact normally.
More information:
Course fees:
- 400€ (including the course, materials and transport when they are necessary).
- All the registered participants can ask for collaboration to find a flat / hostelling according to their preferences.
- All the participants will have a “emergencies telephone number” 24/7 to assist /help the participant if they have a problem.
Special conditions:
- If you arrange a group or more than 6 people, we can offer the course you want in the days you prefer.
- If you arrange a group or more than 10 people, we can offer the course you want in the language and days you prefer.
