Description and main aims

S.O.S. ECE Education in action is a brand new training on the so-called European Citizenship Education which is a subject still not taught in the most of the European educational systems. 
There are many possible lesson plans on European topics and many tools provided by the European Commission, websites and EU projects aiming at training teachers to teach “Europe at school”. 
This training will give to participants a general overview on EU guidelines and policies creating a common base of knowledge and promoting a positive sense of community and critical spirit. 
Another aspect of the training is the method. Schools are still very formal and teachers don’t know how to improve Non Formal Education and Innovative approaches while teaching, especially those methods which implies the break of barriers and common cultural walls. 
The actual educational guidelines ask to teachers to be able to communicate more and make teaching appealing, international, transversal and funny. With ECE Education is possible to become more "European Teachers" and start a new teaching process widening the network and opening minds, creating cooperations, innovative skills and competences of all.
Knowing more about Europe and its opportunities means to have a bigger perspective and be involved in many networks, know more informations and being able to explain what is happening in the European Union and in the world. 
JUMP is running since years a project titled “We School Europe” involving many schools in Europe and has a training kit of tools and lesson plans to be shared and used by teachers adapting to every specific context. As almost all JUMP trainings, part of the session will be in local schools working "directly" with teachers and students.

The title S.O.S. refers to our intention to deliver teachers a "Tool kit" of lesson ideas, methods, practical and technological games which we have or can be created by teachers once they know how, useful also to cover those moments where a European subject can cover other specific subjects. ECE Education is transversal and can be taught at different levels also creating debates (if secondary school). This subject can be useful to fill holes in the school schedule when subject teachers are absent and other teachers can enrich the curriculum with innovative European lessons.

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Target group
Teachers can be any kind of teacher working in a public or private school or educational institutions.

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Like all our programs, the present one is flexible and adaptable to special requests, depending on the subject taught or on the starting level of the participant. 
Furthermore, in line with the JUMP Academy method, our courses are based on a strategic balance between formal and non-formal education, indoor and outdoor education and the team takes care of a very important aspect of international mobility which is the intercultural learning which we develop with short excursions and facilitating the interaction with local partners, especially schools of the territory. 
We always try to connect our learners to local teachers and students to cooperate in developing innovation and networking for future projects. If possible, inside the program, a morning is spent inside a local school, visiting, observing, and cooperating in the realization of one or more lessons. The proposed program JUMP works, in European dimension and with an international spirit, at the local level and, according to the period of the training along the year and the weather, it is possible to change some sessions and add visits and meetings, in cooperation with our network of partners including schools involved in European projects).

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