- Duration: 6 training days
- Target group: Teachers, school leaders, support staff, youth workers
- Language: English
- Locations: Locations: Larissa, Rhodes (Greece)
- Funding: Erasmus+ KA1
- Price (course fees): 480 euros
- Name of the course provider: Open Up Hellenic Association of Innovation
- OID: E10262009
Experiential, reflective and practice-based.
- Case studies and narratives from diverse classrooms
- Role-plays and perspective-taking activities
- Cooperative learning structures and group tasks
- Lesson and project design in teams
- Personal reflection and peer coaching
Participants will:
- Understand key concepts related to inclusion, diversity and multicultural education
- Identify barriers to participation and learning for different student groups
- Apply principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
- Use cooperative and participatory methods to give every learner a voice
- Address discrimination, prejudice and bullying through educational activities
- Design inclusive lesson plans and small school-wide initiatives
Day 1 – Mapping diversity in our schools
- Welcome and introductions
- Sharing participants’ school contexts and challenges
- Key concepts: inclusion, equity, diversity, multiculturalism
- Activity: “My classroom through different lenses”
- Reflection: hopes and fears for inclusive practice
Day 2 – Understanding barriers and needs
- Structural, cultural and individual barriers to learning
- Working with multilingual, refugee and minority students
- Case studies: stories from diverse classrooms
- Group work: analysing and solving scenarios
- Reflection journal
Day 3 – Principles and practices of inclusive pedagogy
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and differentiation
- Cooperative learning strategies that support all learners
- Designing inclusive classroom routines and group work
- Creating a draft inclusive lesson/activity
- Peer feedback
Day 4 – Preventing and addressing exclusion and conflict
- Recognising bias, microaggressions and stereotypes
- Activities for empathy, dialogue and conflict resolution
- Responding to bullying, racism and discrimination in school
- Designing a small class or school campaign
- Reflection: teacher role and alliances
Day 5 – From individual lessons to whole-school inclusion
- Building inclusive policies and practices at school level
- Engaging families and community organisations
- Developing an inclusion action plan for participants’ schools
- Sharing draft plans and feedback
- Identifying resources and partners
Day 6 – Consolidation, networking and closure
- Recap: key principles and tools for inclusive classrooms
- Peer coaching circles: “my next concrete steps”
- Exploring opportunities for international projects on inclusion
- Evaluation, Certificates of Attendance and closing circle
- Optional cultural visit
16-21 February 2026, Larissa, Greece
9-14 March 2026, Larissa, Greece
6-11 April 2026, Larissa, Greece
25-30 May 2026, Larissa, Greece
27 July-1 August 2026, Rhodes, Greece
3-8 August 2026, Rhodes, Greece
5-10 September 2026, Larissa, Greece
