The 4Cs: Communication, Collaboration, Creativity and Critical Thinking 🧐 (Europass Talks)

Talking about the 4Cs: Communication, Collaboration, Creativity, and Critical Thinking.

The course is composed of 5 Live Lessons of 60 minutes each that will cover the following topics:

Lesson 1. Communication
Learn how to create engaging activities involving all forms of expression through verbal, non-verbal and artistic skills. We will also focus on how to communicate assertively in order to maintain healthy boundaries and harmony with your administration, colleagues, students and their families.

Lesson 2. Collaboration
Gain greater a clearer understanding of group dynamics and how to recognize the greatest obstacles to collaboration. Design activities that generate a sense of belonging, fun and cooperation, which in turn foster deeper learning, curiosity, and interpersonal skills.

Lesson 3. Creativity
Fun, exciting, stimulating, self-motivating, creativity is the key to igniting your students’ independent spark and motivation. We will see how to expand your curriculum through simple adaptations, allowing yourself and your learners to tap into creativity with greater ease.

Lesson 4. Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking. We have access to information like never before, and now we need tools and competencies to learn how to discern what is useful, factual, and effective to our aims. Critical thinking is what generates concrete intellectual and analytical growth in us and our students. This module will allow you to experience better problem solving, planning, goal-setting, in order to model it and encourage it in your learners.

Lesson 5. 4Cs Combo
Brainstorm, share and compare with other course participants, and plan the 4Cs in your own lesson-designs. With the instructor’s guidance, you will develop your own lesson or module using the 4Cs to use immediately, as well as experiencing the motivation and excitement it generates.

Additional information

With Susan Gagliano 🇺🇸, professional counselor and teacher trainer for Europass in Florence.
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