Programmes

Language training for refugees and migrants

Language training for refugees and migrants: Informal Language teaching methodologies

Next course:  27-31 August 2021, Santorini island, Greece

Working Language: English and Greek

SEMINAR PROGRAMME

Day 1 (Friday)
- Presentation of the participants and their organizations
- Presentation of the seminar’s programme and the trainers (educational contract)
- Locating the characteristics, the needs and the expectations of our learners
- Formal-informal-non formal methods and contexts

Day 2 (Saturday)
- The Language café methodology
- Participants practice their knowledge and skills in the Language café methodology

Day 3 (Sunday)
- The Language Exchange methodology
- Participants practice their knowledge and skills in the Language Exchange methodology

Day 4 (Monday)
- The Montessori methodology for adults
- Participants practice their knowledge and skills in the Montessori methodology for adults

Day 5 (Tuesday)
- Coping with practical problems in informal language teaching
- Reports on the visit and the course
- Evaluation of the seminar – farewell activities - Creating a communication network

Fees
Tuition fee: 70 €/ day/ person, which includes tuition and training materials. 
Organizational costs: 100 €/ person, which includes administration costs, organizational costs and VAT.
Special discounts for non Erasmus Plus grant holders.

Learning Outcomes
At the end of the seminar, participants are expected to have acquired the skills that will enable them to:
- develop a repertoire of teaching skills and informal techniques and become able to make judgments as to when and how to use them,
- develop the ability to make choices with regard to informal teaching techniques and learning materials and to adapt or supplement them to cater for the specific needs of groups and individual adult learners
- learn to recognize learners as individuals with their own learning styles, motivation and aims and act appropriately in their informal language teaching
Methodology
The course is based on the principles of participatory adult education, by embodying participants' experiences and fostering the exchange of their ideas, proposals and materials. Its focus is not merely on the didactic aspect of teaching but also on the participants' social and cultural knowledge gained through education and teaching to different target groups throughout Europe. During the course, the following techniques will be implemented: working in subgroups and pairs, role play, lectures, guided conversation, brainstorming, language and educational games and experiential activities.
Participants will also be given hand-outs, original materials, lists of intercultural activities and websites for teaching tools.

Follow-up
Upon completion of the course, participants will be encouraged to form a network which will function as a meeting point. Within this network, they will be able to exchange didactic materials and proposals as well as useful ideas for promoting informal language learning in different European countries.

Programmes

Intercultural Skills

Intercultural Skills for adult educators, school teachers, and mentors

 2021:
20-24 August 2021, Megalochori, Santorini Island, Greece

Working language: ENGLISH

SEMINAR PROGRAMME 

Day 1 (Friday)
- Welcome and Ice-Breaking Activities
- Getting to know each other: Interview
- The educational contract: Participants’ hopes and fears for the course
- Definitions of essential concepts: “Identity” and “Culture”

Day 2 (Saturday)
- Key principles of an intercultural approach: “Self-determination”
- Key principles of an intercultural approach: “Equity” and “Interaction”
- Implications of diversity to adult education: Description of diversity in the European Society, taxonomy and examples of diversity

Day 3 (Sunday)
- Intercultural key skills of an adult educator: Diversity in the course group, heterogeneity in our classrooms, positive and negative implications of diversity, problem resolution
- Recognizing and promoting intercultural skills of adult learners: Defining key skills of individual intercultural competencies, techniques to recognize and promote individual intercultural skills

Day 4 (Monday)
- Action Planning: How to apply what was learned in the adult education classroom, in the adult education institution, in the community, short and long term measures
- Presentation of group assessment of the intercultural dimension
- Cultural programme

Day 5 (Tuesday)
- Reports on the visit and the course
- Networking activities
- Feedback and evaluation: Activities for evaluating all aspects of the course
- Farewell activities

Fees
Tuition fee: 70 €/ day/ person, which includes tuition and training materials.
Organizational costs: 100 €/ person, which includes administration costs, organizational costs, and VAT.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the seminar, participants are expected to have acquired the skills that will enable them to:
- Clarify key concepts of Intercultural Education: Identity, Culture, the Right to Difference, the values of Equity and Interaction
- Explore diversity in Europe with the view to improving quality in adult education: Explore diversity in the societies represented in the course, institutional policies, diversity in the course group, heterogeneity in class, an intercultural approach in teaching
- Exercise and develop their intercultural skills with each other: Language and communication skills, empathy, guidance and counseling, cultural knowledge, etc.
- Review and plan their own work including how to:
• Generate and answer the relevant questions on diversity
• Apply active listening and communication rules
• Listen to different points of view
• Act like a cross-cultural counselor
• Work co-operatively
• Recognize and promote intercultural skills of their learners and of themselves

Methodology
Teaching methodologies have to assure interaction between facilitators and participants and among learners rather than transmit homogenized knowledge or techniques and ask for reproduction. This is especially true when intercultural skills are at question because they cannot be “learned” in a cognitive approach, but they need to be experienced and developed in interaction.
In accordance with the principles set out above, the training methodology developed for the course will focus on facilitating the objective-based interaction amongst all persons involved. As an intended side effect, participants will experience themselves and reflect on interactive and cooperative learning methods in an intercultural process, which they may consider and adapt for their work purposes.
It is a workshop design that seeks to reach out and include all learning styles by utilizing a wide range of pedagogies, including problem-solving, group and pair work, reflective discussion, experiential learning, brief didactic inputs on concepts and theories, and action planning, in order to apply what was learned. Special attention is given to involve participants’ regional backgrounds and experiences and to facilitate mutual exchange.

Follow-up
In order to facilitate and mutually support participants to apply and disseminate what they have learned, participants and the trainers will create an e-network as a forum for exchanging ideas, experiences, and materials. Networking will enhance the possibilities for further cooperation amongst its members on the basis of new partnerships and/ or projects on intercultural adult education.

Πιστοποίηση Eurolta

ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥTIKO ΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑ  ΠΙΣΤΟΠΟΙΗΣΗΣ ΚΑΘΗΓΗΤΩΝ ΞΕΝΩΝ ΓΛΩΣΣΩΝ

Ή/ΚΑΙ ΤΗΣ ΜΗΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΤΟΥΣ ΩΣ ΞΕΝΗΣ ΓΛΩΣΣΑΣ ΣΕ ΕΝΗΛΙΚΟΥΣ
από τον διεθνή οργανισμό ICC - INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE NETWORK

και από το ΚΕΝΤΡΟ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟΥ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ

To EUROLTA (Ευρωπαϊκό Πιστοποιητικό Διδασκαλίας Γλωσσών σε Ενηλίκους) είναι μία διεθνώς αναγνωρισμένη πιστοποίηση http://www.eurolta.eu/certification/ για εκείνους που επιθυμούν να διδάξουν ξένες γλώσσες σε ενηλίκους. Είναι αναγνωρισμένο από όλα τα μέλη οργανισμούς του ICC - Ιnternational Language Association. (http://www.icc-languages.eu/). Η Πιστοποίηση EUROLTA παρέχεται από το ICC μέσω του δικτύου ELTACS (European Language Teachers Assessment and Certification Scheme), στο οποίο συμμετέχει και το ελληνικό Υπουργείο Παιδείας και Θρησκευμάτων http://www.eltacs.eu/project-partners.

Υπάρχουν τρία πιστοποιητικά που παρέχει το ICC μέσω του πιστοποιημένου φορέα του στην Ελλάδα, του Κέντρο Ελληνικού Πολιτισμού (http://www.eurolta.eu/eurolta-centres/): το Eurolta Certificate, το Eurolta Diploma και το Eurolta για τη διδασκαλία γλωσσών online. Και τα τρία εγγυώνται ένα υψηλό επίπεδο ικανοτήτων στη διδασκαλία ξένων γλωσσών σε ενηλίκους. Τα εκπαιδευτικά προγράμματα που προσφέρονται υπό την αιγίδα του προγράμματος κατάρτισης EUROLTA αντικατοπτρίζουν μια σύγχρονη προσέγγιση στη διδασκαλία ξένων γλωσσών και την εκπαιδευτική διαδικασία.

Η εκπαίδευση για τo Εurolta Certificate (250 ώρες, 10 μήνες, 900 ευρώ) απευθύνεται σε έμπειρους και σε μελλοντικούς καθηγητές ξένων γλωσσών ή / και της μητρικής τους ως ξένης γλώσσας.

Η εκπαίδευση για τo  Eurolta Certificate για τη διδασκαλία online (150 ώρες, 6 μήνες, 650 ευρώ) απευθύνεται σε έμπειρους καθηγητές ξένων γλωσσών ή / και της μητρικής τους ως ξένης γλώσσας, οι οποίοι έχουν ήδη διδάξει σε δια ζώσης μαθήματα και θέλουν να μάθουν πώς να διδάσκουν ελληνικά ή άλλη γλώσσα μέσω διαδικτύου.

Η εκπαίδευση για τo Eurolta Diploma (250 ώρες, 10 μήνες, 900 ευρώ) απευθύνεται σε  διευθυντές οργανισμών ξένων γλωσσών, σε καθηγητές ξένων γλωσσών ή / και της μητρικής τους ως ξένης γλώσσας με αποδεδειγμένη επαγγελματική εμπειρία τουλάχιστον 3 ετών πλήρους απασχόλησης (20 ωρών / εβδομάδα) και σε έμπειρους εκπαιδευτές και μέντορες καθηγητών ξένων γλωσσών.
 
Η πιστοποίηση βασίζεται στην αξιολόγηση ενός φακέλου (portfolio) που περιέχει δείγματα της εργασίας των εκπαιδευομένων (σχέδια μαθημάτων, πρακτική διδασκαλίας κ.λπ.). Ο φάκελος αυτός προετοιμάζεται με τη βοήθεια των πιστοποιημένων Eurolta trainers και αποστέλλεται στη Γερμανία στο ICC. Αξιολογείται από τους Eurolta Master Trainers και εφόσον ο εκπαιδευόμενος εγκριθεί, το πιστοποιητικό αποστέλλεται από τα κεντρικά γραφεία του  ICC  από τη Γερμανία σε ένα μήνα.

Καθηγητές άλλων ξένων γλωσσών μπορούν να πιστοποιηθούν, παρακολουθώντας και προσαρμόζοντας τα αντίστοιχα προγράμματα και ετοιμάζοντας τον φάκελό τους σε συνεννόηση με τους εκπαιδευτές σε τάξεις άλλων ξένων γλωσσών.

Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες δείτε το επισυναπτόμενο.

Επικοινωνήστε με το ΚΕΝΤΡΟ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟΥ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ για να λάβετε τους Οδηγούς Σπουδών στη διεύθυνση This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. με την ένδειξη ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΣΗ EUROLTA - HCC. Μπορείτε να τηλεφωνήσετε και στα τηλέφωνα +302286082820 ή +306944105484, Ιφιγένεια Γεωργιάδου.

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KALEIDOSCOPIO

The levels Β1, C1 and C2 of the KALEIDOSKOPIO book series on teaching Greek as a foreign/second language are available by the Hellenic Culture Centre.

The KALEIDOSKOPIO series aims at providing non-greek speaking students with as complete and multifaceted picture of contemporary Greek reality as it is possible.

It aspires to touch upon the agonies, joys, enthusiasm, fears, achievements and challenges experienced by Greeks today through the presentation of aspects of the Greek society.

Furthermore, the books aim at rendering students capable to communicate and have their knowledge certified by sitting in the Greek Language Certification exams of the Centre of Greek Language (KEG) or other organisations/institutes, which organise, or are about to organise similar Certification exams in accordance to the European Languages Portfolio and the Centre for the Greek Language levels as described by the presidential decree published in the governmental gazette (Π.Δ. 60/30-6-2010 ΦΕΚ A’ 98).

The STUDENT BOOKS KALEIDOSKOPIO B1 - book A, KALEIDOSKOPIO C1 - book A and KALEIDOSKOPIO C2 book A are supplemented by:

• The COMPANION BOOKS (also in electronic version) which are included in the printed version (second part of the printed version)
• The CDs KALEIDOSKOPIO B1 - book A, KALEIDOSKOPIO C1 - book A and KALEIDOSKOPIO C2 - book A (2 CDs for each book) which include texts from the Student book as well as the Companion book for all levels.
• Support through seminars and consulting offered to the teachers by the Hellenic Culture Centre along with access to a supplementary materials databank which can be used in teaching and can be found on the HCC’s web site http://learning.bemobile.gr

The books support also the electronic platform GLOSSA for teaching Greek, levels B1, C1 and C2 www.ellinikiglossa.eu, which contains additional texts and exercises for learners and is continually updated. On line learning is also provided through this platform.

For every language level the Student’s book and the Companion book contain:      

• Five teaching units with comprehension exercises, texts and language function exercises
• Two CDs with the texts of each unit from the Student book and the Companion book.
• Oral language comprehension exercises
• Speaking exercises/activities
• Reading comprehension activities
• Writing/composition exercises
• V expansion exercises
• Cultural and intercultural information for each unit
• Songs
• Word banks by theme in every unit
• Role-plays
• Grammar and vocabulary exercises
• Pronunciation rules and exercises
• Idioms, expressions and sayings of the Greek language
• Suggestions for creative projects
• Suggestions for surfing the web, Greek movies and books related to each unit’s theme
• Grammar tables
• The texts for certain listening exercises
• The key for multiple choice exercises and matching tasks
• Authentic photographs depicting Greek reality.

If you are a student you will find the exercises’ key at the end of each book (Student book and Companion book), you will listen to some texts from the CD, you will be able to read the electronic version with or without internet connection (on CD-ROM) you will have support by a teacher and you will have access to our additional teaching material and updated texts on our e-learning platform GLOSSA www.ellinikiglossa.eu. There you have the opportunity to add new texts and share your views with your classmates on the forum.

Those e-learning classes can form the basis of a blended learning if you decide to participate in a face-to-face course carried out by the Hellenic Culture Centre or other Centers, which organize language courses in the frame of GLOSSA program.

If you are a teacher, you will study two pieces of research carried out by the programme staff on online teaching for advanced students. You will explore the “professional profile of those who teach Greek to adults in the non-formal education field” and you will communicate with the contributors to the GLOSSA programme so that you have the chance to take advantage of the e-platform www.ellinikiglossa.eu.

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The projects "GLOSSA - Greek as a vehicle for promoting linguistic diversity" and "GLOSSA 2 - Training of Greek Language Online Teachers" were funded by the European Commission.