Scope
Organisation of Volunteering activities in Secondary Education meant to develop the student’s sense of active citizenship, responsibility, and social contribution through personal engagement.
ECVET points: 3.5
Target groups
Teachers of secondary education
Highschool directors/coordinators
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the training course, the participant is expected to:
- Know the principles of project management in school
- Research and detect community needs
- Motivate and engage students
- Design and integrate a volunteering project in the school curriculum
- Plan, carry out and assess a volunteering activity with a group of students
Methodology
- Presentations
- Examples and case studies
- Workshops and exercises facilitated by the trainer
Thematic units
- Effective development of volunteering practices in schools
- Training needs for students and teachers
- Motivate students to participate in volunteering activities
- Strengthen volunteering in schools
- Integration of volunteering activities in the School Program and transdisciplinarity
Learning material
The learning material consists of presentations and support material in English language.
Cost
Tuition fee: 400 euro per person
The cost includes the learning material and the certificates: Certificate of completion, Europass Certificate Supplement, Europass Mobility.
The cost can be funded by Erasmus+ programme KA1 mobility of staff.
Cultural activities (optional)
Includes:
A walking tour of Piraeus and welcome dinner,
Indicative menu: Cretan salad, zucchini fritters, sausage, cretan grilled cheese, cretan meat balls, pork slow roasted in the oven with sauce and herbs, served with mashed potatoes flavoured with mushroom truffle, traditional cretan pasta, dessert, wine / raki
PRICE per person: 25 euros (beer or other drinks are not covered, except those mentioned above)
A guided tour of Athens, visit to Archaeological sites,
It includes: The Acropolis hill, Parthenon, the historical area of Plaka & Monastiraki: 3 hours guided tour
COST: 150€ divided to the number of participants. No transport costs or entrance ticket to Acropolis Hill are included.
A common dinner in Athens,
Indicative menu: Feta wrapped with honey and sesame, greek salad, black eyed peas, octopus, calamari, cod croquettes, chicken strips, burger patties, orzotto with vegetables, wine and refreshments
PRICE per person: 30 euros (beer or other drinks are not covered, except those mentioned above)
The restaurants and menu may change depending on the availability and time of the year and the weather conditions.
The cost of local transportation and the entrance fees to sites and museums are not included.
Training sessions
Location | Dates | Cost |
Piraeus | 4-8/11/2024 | 400€ |
Piraeus | 19-23/5/2025 | 400€ |
Piraeus | 3-7/11/2025 | 400€ |
Further information
Lila Anthopoulou, tel: +30 2104286227, e-mail: lila@idec.gr
Course Features
- Lectures 41
- Quizzes 0
- Duration 5 day
- Language English
- Students 0
- Assessments Yes
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Day 1
- Welcome
- Presentation of participants
- Expectations from the training course
- Introduction to the training course, learning materials, methodology, learning outcomes
- Management of volunteering projects in school: principles of project management
- Research and detection of needs
- Searching for partners and stakeholders
- Management of volunteering projects in school: principles of project management
- Think of an activity
- Planification
- Self-assessment and enhancement of the project
- Improve the project
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Day 2
- Mapping of local community needs by students
- Basic questions to ask, relations between local, regional and global; transversal needs
- Motivate students to participate in volunteering activities
- Participation of students in the definition, planification and decision making of the activity.
- Set visible and significant milestones
- Reinforcing group cohesion through volunteering activities
- Volunteering activities and digital citizenship
- Involve students in the activity assessment
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Day 3
- How to strengthen volunteering in schools
- Create a culture of service: institutionalise volunteering activities in your school
- Sustainability over time
- Communication and dissemination during the activity: involving the rest of the educational
- Techniques and educational resources for teachers, in order to manage and energise teams and supervise volunteering projects
- Detection of training needs: What should participants know about a specific volunteering activity?
- Using external expertise for the students volunteering training
- Project tracking systems for teachers
- Legal aspects to take into account in volunteering activities in schools -differences between different school systems
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Day 4
- Integration of volunteering activities in the secondary school curricular contents
- Anticipate learning
- Improve student learning with a properly designed project
- To which subjects will the volunteering activity be linked?
- Reflection and evaluation moments scheduled during the activity
- Evaluation of learning in the volunteering projects
- Celebrate results
- How to combine celebration with dissemination of the work done?
- Why is acknowledging success not at odds with detecting and improving mistakes?
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Day 5