Artistic Tools to Help Teachers and Students Build Resilience
| Topics | Resilience – Drawing – Art – Inclusion – Artistic expression – Culture | |||
| COURSE DESCRIPTION | During the course we will study the concept of resilience in the psycho-pedagogical field. What is resilience and how does it develop, what role do family, school and the social context play? Creativity plays an important role in the development of a resilient personality: it allows you to grow with a mind open to novelties and unexpected events and to find unprecedented solutions to difficulties.Drawing and artistic expression tools are very useful for working on these skills in the classroom. During the course we will use different tools to draw in groups, develop awareness and critical sense, improve relationships and the ability to communicate emotions. | |||
| TARGET | The course is designed for a group of school teachers (working with students aged 6 to 13) as well as adult trainers, group facilitators, and educators specialising in learning difficulties. (Min 8 participants, max 15, from 2 or more different countries). | |||
| LEARNING OUTCOMES | By the end of the course you will be able to: – know the topic of resilience – design classroom activities to develop creativity and divergent thinking – use visual tools to facilitate the group – help students with learning difficulties to express themselves better – know and use artistic techniques to increase personal well-being -Search and use resources to autonomously study before and after the course | |||
| TRAINERS | Lucia Tringali, pedagogist and trainer with 25 years of experience in training courses for school teachers and educators and 10 in visual facilitation. She is also an expert in children’s literature, has worked as a librarian, involved in reading promotion and literacy education since 1995. Guido Bagni, co-trainer and tutor, Shiatsu instructor, has been working as a trainer since 2006. Since 2015 he has been coordinating mobility for youth workers and training courses for teachers within the Erasmus+ programme. He has skills in graphics, blog design and visual communication tools for the web. | |||
| PRACTICAL ORGANISATION | – 6 days of face-to-face training (6 hours a day) – 1 online follow-up meeting, 1 or 2 months after the conclusion of the course, to help consolidate the acquired skills and monitor dissemination and impact. | |||
| METHODOLOGY | The courses are designed as interactive processes with an emphasis on establishing a learning community between participants and stimulating active participation and sharing responsibility. We will experiment with different tools and each day there will be a space for personal reflection on learning methodologies. Every day participants will find a collection of books, toolkits, templates, videos and learning tools to explore in group or individually. | |||
| COURSE FEE | Classroom training (6 days in Genoa): €80 per day, total €480 per person | |||
| PLACE | Genoa (Italy) | |||
| WHEN | The course will be held in several editions. For more information contact us. | |||
| DIDACTICAL MATERIALS | Our participants will have an online platform (lifetime access) dedicated to preparation on the topic, with a dedicated tutor, teaching material, bibliography, practical exercises and organized resources and will have the opportunity to interact with the other participants. | |||
| REQUIRED SKILLS | none | |||
| MINIMUM LEVEL OF ENGLISH | B1 | |||
| EVALUATION | – At the end of each day: feedback on group work and activities; – At the end of the course: formative evaluation of the experience in group and individually; | |||
| CERTIFICATE | Certification of learning outcomes in connection with the “Quality standards for courses under Erasmus+ KA1”: – Certificate of Attendance which include the name of the participant, description of the course and its learning outcomes, dates, venues, the name of the host organisation and course director. The certificate will be delivered to people who have completed at least 85% of the planned teaching activities. – Europass certificate: the institution or school that sends the participants will be responsible for issuing the Europass certificate relating to the course: our organisation will collaborate by certifying the skills achieved by each participant. | |||
| DAY BY DAY ACTIVITIES | DAY 1 – Presentation of the objectives of the course – Practical and organizational aspects (space, timetables and didactic organization, work tools) – Presentation of the participants and their specific training needs – Group agreements with graphical tools-Pedagogical theories and research: the concept of resilience in the psycho-pedagogical field Evening: (optional) welcoming activity (intercultural party or historical centre city tour) DAY 2 – Erasmus and other international projects about resilience in educational contexts – Map of personal resources with artistic tools DAY 3 – Keri Smith’s approach: educating yourself in the gaze and becoming artist of everyday life – Experimentation of 4 activities from her books and discussion of her: how can we experiment with this approach with our students? DAY 4 – Doodling workshop: the gesture of drawing as a daily practiceIndividual and group experimentation of activities on the graphic sign with different techniques and materials – Drawing without thinking: relaxation activity – Drawing with constraints and difficulties: the relationship between thinking processes and artistic gesture DAY 5 – Drawing to tell stories and to recognize emotions – Drawing and creative workshop (portraits and masks) with collages, tactile materials – Artistic activities on personal identity with words, images and colour DAY 6 – Resilience and intercultural education – Wordless books for intercultural education. – How to communicate and disseminate training results – How to organize, document and share follow-up activities – How to organize a self-plan to deeply know the topic after the training – Formative evaluation of the experience: group evaluation of the quality aspects of the course with graphic tools; questionnaire of evaluation. If the participants are available, we can organize short video interviews to tell the experience, which will be uploaded on our Facebook page. |
