Course details – Erasmus+

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The main goal of this course is to focus on work with special needs children, exchanging experiences and ideas about inclusive education in Europe;
An opportunity to exchange ideas, good practices and create links with teachers from other European countries;
Learning the terminology regarding Special Education;
To develop theoretical knowledge and skills/techniques in order to deal with special needs students;
Understand and experience many different activities and approaches more appropriate for working especially with, children with difficult integration and coming from other cultures/backgrounds;
Realize how to adjust teacher proposals and projects in a way they suit the needs of mixed ability classes;
Debate how to involve the parents in the children’s learning process;
To actively engage with state-of-the-art methods of teaching and living in the inclusive classroom;
To actively engage with class-management in the inclusive context;
Be familiar with peer teaching and collaborative learning methods;
To improve their communicative competence in English;
To use technology to design lesson-plans or other activities;
To increase motivation and satisfaction in their daily work;
To improve their understanding of other European cultures;
To develop a sense of European citizenship and identity through participating in a community of European teachers and trainers;
To share experiences and best practices

Improvement of language and communication skills;
Allow teachers to meet colleagues of different nationalities within the EU, discuss their background and cultural differences, and build a network of teachers for future cooperation and increase capacity to cooperate on international level;
Improve the teaching of special needs children and children from different social backgrounds;
Improve knowledge of good practices and latest research in children with special needs;
Encouragement of sharing best practices, ideas and materials between colleagues within the EU;
Acquisition of practical language to be used in the classroom, of new techniques, ideas;
Produce ready‐to‐use materials and methods to improve educational practices in the field of special needs children education.
Promote universal access to education with regards to non-discriminatory values
Increase broader understanding of strategies and systems dealing with special needs children in different countries, cultivate mutual respect and intercultural awareness.
Support continual professional development, revise and improve key competences, build confidence in promoting pedagogies that are supportive to special needs children and social and cultural diversity