ICT for inclusive & Global classrooms
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Learn how to use educational ICT tools to foster broad educational inclusion and social integration. This course focuses on using digital technology to surpass learning barriers, manage diverse classrooms, and facilitate multicultural integration (DigCompEdu Area 5: Empowering Learners). Involve joyful team games and collaborative activities that help surpass cultural, cognitive, and social differences through innovative digital pedagogy.
- Inclusive Digital Policies: ICT integration for universal design for learning (UDL) and specific migrant integration policies;
- Assistive & Language Tools: Digital tools to support Special Educational Needs (SEN) and quicken essential language skills for non-native speakers;
- E-learning for Diversity: Adaptive e-learning models that cater to different learning paces and integration backgrounds;
- Mobile Learning & Accessibility: Using mobile devices to foster autonomy in students with disabilities and facilitate the inclusion of displaced populations;
- Collaborative Inclusive Tools: Apps designed for multicultural and neurodiverse team-working;
- Differentiated Content Exploration: Tools to deliver and explore content according to individual student profiles (Area 2: Digital Resources);
- Digital Assessment for Inclusion: Tools and apps to monitor progress and provide personalized feedback to all learners (Area 4: Assessment).
* The course is held in the English language. An English A2 (CEFR) level is recommended, but trainers are experienced in helping students with English language difficulties.
* El curso se imparte en lengua inglesa. Se recomienda un nivel de inglés A2 (MCER), aunque los formadores tienen experiencia en ayudar a los estudiantes con dificultades en el idioma. Además, podemos ofrecer apoyo en español si es necesario.
- Strategic Orchestration: Implementing ICT policies that promote continuous innovation and inclusion for all marginalized groups.
- Mobile Pedagogy: Understanding how mobile technology supports school integration for students with diverse needs;
- Universal & Targeted Integration: Using ICT to reduce cultural gaps and ease the transition for Migrants and Refugees while supporting general classroom diversity;
- Interactive Methodology: Mastering apps for game-based learning, collaborative work, and monitoring student performance in inclusive settings;
- Differentiated Design: Adopting strategies and digital resources tailored to the specific socio-cultural and cognitive reality of the school context.
Participants should bring a mobile device to test applications focused on Accessibility and Inclusion. ACJ provides the necessary digital infrastructure to explore platforms that support the DigCompEdu competencies of resource customization and learner empowerment.
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Note: The course program can be changed according to participant's profile, local holidays or on the availability of schools to visit.
Primary school teachers, secondary school teachers, school staff and school managers.
- Peer Learning: Sharing best practices on inclusion and multiculturalism;
- Practical Exploration: Testing and configuring apps for Accessibility and Differentiation;
- Reflective Practice: Analyzing how digital tools can be adapted to foster the Digital Competence of Learners (Area 6);
- Field Observation: Visits to schools with diverse student populations to see ICT in action;
- Inclusive Design: Preparing lesson plans that use ICT to bridge gaps for both local students with needs and migrant/refugee students.
Course fee: 400,00€ per participant (click for detail)
All participants will receive a Certificate of Participation and a Declaration of Obtained Competencies, officially recognizing the skills gained during the course.
The acquired competences will also be validated within the Europass Mobility framework — participants should request that their National Agency issue the Europass. (Visit our website Documents > Europass mobility).
Our courses are aligned with the European Framework for the Digital Competence of Educators (DigCompEdu), and the provided documentation that can support the recognition.
Participants are responsible for booking their own accommodation. ACJ will guide recommended hotels across different price ranges, but participants are free to choose hotels and restaurants according to their preference. Our staff enjoy lunch daily at a nearby restaurant offering good quality at affordable prices — you are welcome to join them!
All accommodation and meals are paid directly by participants to the hotels and restaurants.
During the course, lunches and coffee will also be available on or near the University of Algarve campus, where the training takes place.
- 2026-03-30 to 2026-04-03, Faro, University of Algarve, Portugal (Opened)
- 2026-07-27 to 2026-07-31, Faro, University of Algarve, Portugal (Opened)
- 2027-03-22 to 2027-03-26, Faro, University of Algarve, Portugal (Opened)
- 2027-07-26 to 2027-07-30, Faro, University of Algarve, Portugal (Opened)
- 2028-04-03 to 2028-04-07, Faro, University of Algarve, Portugal (Opened)
- 2028-07-24 to 2028-07-28, Faro, University of Algarve, Portugal (Opened)
