Experience the future of teaching and learning by making a selective adoption of ICT tools, devices, and apps. Understand IT educational use, integration, and continuous innovation. Learn how to select the best options for your class, for your students' levels, and subjects. Experience the use of the newest apps to optimize teaching tasks and to work collaboratively. Learn how to select and use apps to plan and prepare lessons, explore content, monitor your students' perception, and assess student performance.

This 5-day professional development course, held in the Algarve, is designed for teachers of vocational subjects in hospitality, gastronomy, confectionery, and gardening. The program combines practical insights, experiential learning and language development to strengthen participants’ pedagogical skills and professional knowledge.

Experience insight alternative ways to work, prepare, implement, learn and acquire new abilities and skills to implement in your classes. Observe different school management strategies and expand your European network. Visit Portuguese model schools in different educational levels. Learn about Portuguese educational system. Understand Portuguese growth in Pisa Reports.

Understand how Gamification can trigger joyful and effective learning. Learn how to design games, and plan lessons and activities to enhance student motivation, foster creativity, critical thinking and develop social competencies by team cooperation and positive competition. Discover how video games, simulation, augmented reality and technology-aided outdoor activities can engage students and promote meaningful knowledge and competencies.

Learn about robotics and develop your coding skills through robotics! Develop teaching skills and methods to help your students learn computer programming contents and techniques with a reality based approach using robots. Help your students develop algorithmic thinking skills and STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) contents through robotics and coding.

Learn how to use educational ICT tools to foster integration, surpass language issues, make enjoyable collaborative work and positive discussions about any subject. Involve joyful team games and activities that promote integration and help surpass cultural issues and differences.

Understand how Minecraft Education can enhance your teaching practice and engage your students in various subjects and skills. Learn how to use Minecraft as a tool for game design, coding, storytelling, and problem-solving. Discover how to access and modify hundreds of lessons and projects across the curriculum, and how to create your own immersive learning experiences with Minecraft. Explore how to use Minecraft Education to foster collaboration, communication, and creativity among your students. 

Understand how the Microsoft Educator program can help you improve your teaching practice and enhance your students’ learning outcomes. Learn how to use Microsoft tools and resources to facilitate blended or hybrid learning environments, design games, code, and foster 21st century skills. Discover how to access and modify hundreds of lessons and projects across the curriculum, and how to create your own professional growth pathway with fun, guided, and hands-on content that’s specific to your role and goals. Explore how to earn industry-recognized Microsoft Certifications and badges to validate your knowledge and skills. 

Dive into the future of education with 'Next-Gen Teaching: AI Tools for Learning.' Explore the advantages and challenges of integrating cutting-edge AI technology into the classroom. Discover the power of the latest AI applications to enhance mobile device use for collaborative learning. Learn innovative ways to harness the capabilities of smartphones and tablets for lesson planning, content exploration, and effective monitoring and assessment of student performance. Elevate your teaching with the latest advances in educational AI, creating a dynamic and engaging learning environment for the next generation. Experience how AI tools can significantly save time and enhance the quality of teaching materials, empowering educators to deliver impactful lessons with efficiency and precision and, at the same time, help your students use this tools critically.

Understand ICT educational integration advantages and problems, learn and experience the use of the newest apps to maximize the benefits of the use of mobile devices in education and collaborative work, learn how to use Smartphones and tablets to plan and prepare lessons, explore contents and to monitor and assess student performance.

Your gateway to seamlessly integrating AI into your language lessons. Discover innovative tools, personalized learning experiences, and cutting-edge methodologies. Elevate your teaching in the digital age.

The course is aimed at foreign language teachers who would like to refresh their teaching style, discover new ways of finding teaching materials, and exploit digital tools.

The course will provide a practical approach to foreign language teaching, concentrating on productive and receptive linguistic skills as well as referring to cutting-edge technology.

Each day, participants will produce teaching materials while performing various tasks in the international team - comparing their experiences, sharing knowledge, and learning by doing.