Strategic Planning in Teachers’ Teams

Scope

To introduce to teachers and trainers, the concept of quality culture and strategic planning of teachers teams and to provide them the necessary skills and competencies to build a quality culture in the school and use quality instruments in their teams, for strategic planning.

 ECVET points: 3.5

Target groups

Teachers’ teams’ leaders, teachers, quality officers in vocational education and training schools.

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of the training course, the participants are expected to:

• Understand the benefits of creating a quality culture in vocational education and training organisations
• Motivate teachers to actively participate in teams and engage in teams’ planning
• Select the relevant and appropriate tools for strategic planning in their teams
• Design annual team plans
• Evaluate teams’ performance and provide feedback
• Redesign the toolkit instruments to fit organisational culture and their teams needs

Methodology

The training course follows the principles of experiential learning and active involvement of participants. For each thematic unit, there will be an overall presentation of the theme and the instruments, followed by group and individual activities, in which the participants will use the instruments, discussion and reflection on their use.

The learning techniques that will be used are:

• Short presentations of the topics
• Use of active learning methods with individual and group activities
• Work on case studies
• Group discussions
• Individual and group reflection

Thematic units

• Unit 1 – Quality Culture
• Unit 2 – Planning in teachers’ teams
• Unit 3 – Evaluation and feedback

Learning material

• Quality guide and quality toolkit
• Storybook
• Handouts

Cost

Tuition fee: 480 euros per person for the 6 days course
The cost includes the learning material and the certificates: Certificate of completion, Europass Certificate Supplement, Europass Mobility.

Cultural activities: 80 euro per person* (in Piraeus)
The cost includes a) a walking tour of Piraeus and welcome dinner, b) a guided tour of Athens, visit to Archaeological sites and c) a common dinner with live music in Athens. The cost of local transportation and the entrance fees to sites and museums are not included.

* Due to the COVID-19 situation, currently we are not organising the usual cultural programme. Instead, we propose a guided tour of Athens with a professional guide (visit to Acropolis hill, the Parthenon, Plaka and Monastiraki). Cost: 150€ up to 20 people. The cost is shared between those who attend the tour. Costs for transportation and entrance fees to Acropolis are not included in the above amount. 

Cultural activities: 220 euro per person (in Chania)
The cost includes:

1. buffet lunch in “Mediterranean” restaurant during the training days (Monday – Saturday). Buffet lunch includes: home made bread, house wine and local beverages, variety of salads, cold and hot plates, and desserts. All dishes are prepared in the kitchen of the Conference Centre, with organic olive oil and local and biological cultivated products and they respect the local gastronomy.
2. transfer to Chania old town, a walking tour and welcome dinner. The group will be transferred in the old town in buses, they will stroll around the old port of Chania and they will have dinner in a typical Cretan restaurant. Dinner includes variety of starters and salads to share, meat platters, house wine and dessert.
3. an excursion in the famous beach of Falassarna and a visit to Kissamos village, in the west Crete. The cost includes the bus transfer, it does not include dinner and other expenses. You are expected to bring your swimming suits, towels and good mood.
4. transfer to Chania and common farewell dinner. The group will be transferred in the district of Halepa and they will visit places of historical and touristic interest. They will have dinner in a typical Cretan restaurant. Dinner includes variety of starters and salads to share, meat platters, house wine and dessert.

Entrance fees to sites and museums are not included. Other costs not explicitly mentioned above are not included.

All costs can be funded by Erasmus+ programme KA1 mobility of staff.

Training sessions

** Due to the COVID-19 situation we may have to reschedule the summer school to be organised in Piraeus, instead of Chania.

Further information

Lila Anthopoulou, tel: +30 2104286227, e-mail: lila@idec.gr