Teachers on Shore – Resources for your summer
If this inspires you while you rest, then here is a selection of some of our most popular features to get you going for the new scholastic year!
Voices from the field: Felicia Elena Boscodeala tells about her experience
Felicia attended the Teachers4Europe Academy "Setting an-Agora for a Democratic Culture" held in Malta in May and in this video she tells us the aspects that she most appreciated about this training.
Voices from the field: Keno Dö tells about his experience
Keno Dö tells us his experience on how he understood that Democratic culture is not something you do in one lesson, but it's something you do throughout the days with your students
Scenario 8: Conflict Resolution and Bias Reduction
This Scenario was inspired by a true story. It explores very important topics such as conflict resolution and bias reduction.
Scenario 7: Personal Development and Personal Learning Goals
Trainers and teachers can use Cards for Democracy with learners to build a longitudinal documentation of learning progressions.
Scenario 6: Designing Lessons and Training Sessions
As a teacher or a trainer, you can use Cards for Democracy for lessons design. With this Scenario we show you how to do it.
Scenario 5: Evaluation and Assessment
With the 5th Scenario we learn how to use Cards to encourage others to write an action plan for their own personal and professional growth
Scenario 4: Observation Practices
Observation is an effective tool to diagnose our and students’ learning gaps: learn how Cards can inspire people to observe themselves and each other
“Don’t trust everything!”
In this article we will delve into the activity from the Handbook for Teachers that Victoria Daciu, teacher of english language in Colegiul National Pedagogic Mircea Scarlat, piloted with her students
Scenario 3: Mapping and Learning Collectively
In this Scenario, Cards are used as learning outcomes and placed on a wall in a configuration that represents how the group has learned.
Scenario 2: Debriefing
All sorts of activities benefit from a process of debriefing and reflection. Cards provide a framework to support this type of reflection.
Scenario 1: Exploring Through Conversation
Scenarios are frameworks on how to use Cards for Democracy: in this first Scenario we learn how to explore through conversation
Introducing Scenarios: Ways of Using Cards for Democracy for All
In this article we introduce you to Scenarios: frameworks that L2C's team prepared to guide you through the use of Cards for Democracy
How to use Cards for Democracy
How to use Cards for Democracy In last article we talked about Cards for Democracy through the interview made by Cinzia Billa to Pascale Mompoint Gaillard on this topic. We therefore investigated the [...]
Cards for Democracy for All: what are they and how to use them
Cards for Democracy for All: what are they and how to use them Except from the interview Cards for Democracy for All: what are they and how to use them On today’s post, [...]
The Importance of Conversation & Dialogue in Education
The Importance of Conversation & Dialogue in Education Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard with Laureen Golden How might conversation and dialogue support the professional development of educators? How do Educators learn through talking? How might [...]
The role of teachers in developing democratic competence
A democratic school does not just happen, it is an ongoing process, and one that may not run smoothly or be harmonious or devoid of conflicting views and opinions.
Main values in the context of EU-history
What are the main European values? In this post we summarize six of them
How readable are the EU institutions by its citizens?
How readable are the EU institutions by its citizens? The complexity of the legislative process of the EU presents a barrier to citizens’ understanding of it; as a result, citizens feel far away from the decisions taken.
Methods to Support Teachers in the Teaching of European Values
On this article we deepen the section of the Handbook dedicated to the methods that you can integrate into your teaching path to teach about European Union and European Values.
Guidelines for Teachers and School Leaders towards whole School Approaches
HANDBOOK FOR TEACHERS - TEACHING EUROPEAN VALUES Guidelines for Teachers and School Leaders towards whole School Approaches Erasmus + KA 3 project Teachers4Europe – Setting an Agora for Democratic Culture Index Overview How [...]
General Principles for elaborating European Union values
General Principles for elaborating European Union values Erasmus + KA 3 project Teachers4Europe – Setting an Agora for Democratic Culture In previous articles, we introduced the Handbook for Teachers – Teaching European Values, a [...]
Guidelines on how to use the Handbook for Teachers
On this article we delve the structure of the Handbook to give you a more precise idea of how to use it and how to introduce it with your students
Introducing the Handbook for Teachers – Teaching European Values
Introducing the Handbook for Teachers - Teaching European Values Erasmus + KA 3 project Teachers4Europe - Setting an Agora for Democratic Culture The current acceleration and growing complexity of the world that [...]
What happened at Learn 2 Change in 2021?
What happened at Learn 2 Change in 2021? From L2C Team The Learn to Change (L2C) blog is one way in which we try to support and inspire educators like you. On it [...]
What did we learn from what stakeholders said about the toolkits?
PPMI and L2C held a stakeholder consultation on the ‘MOVE’ project, with the participation of eight stakeholders. To offer diverse perspectives, both stakeholders from the transportation and from the education sector were involved in equal numbers. The transportation stakeholders were selected by PPMI, while the education stakeholders came from Learn to Change’s (L2C) community of practice.
Educational Toolkits: Where should you begin?
The Educational Toolkits were created for the European Commission to challenge learners in primary and secondary schools to identify and question gender stereotypes and discover career opportunities in the transport sector
How Educational Toolkits help teachers in talking about gender stereotypes
How Educational Toolkits can help teachers and educators in talking about gender stereotypes with students
Do boys and girls have access to the same “space”?
This article is an excerpt from the interview with the authors of the Educational Toolkit in which they tell their point of view on the question: Do boys and girls have access to the same “space”?
In-depth Study of the Toolkits and Their Pedagogical Approach
In this article we carry out an analysis of the pedagogical approach adopted in the Educational Toolkits, to allow you to have a clearer idea of their content.
Educational Toolkit To Help Fight Gender Stereotypes in School
In this article we introduce the Educational Toolkits for teachers to help them talk about gender stereotypes in school
Learning From Conflicts with Cards For Democracy
Cards for Democracy Series Learning from Conflicts By Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard We have long talked about the use of Cards for Democracy and we have also brought practical examples of how they [...]
How to use Cards for Democracy: ideas to make the most of it
With the Cards for Democracy (C4D) you can develop your democratic skills by engaging in activities and playing games. C4D help us move forward for the “participation of every human being in the formation of values that regulate how we live together”
Cards for Democracy for All
Cards for Democracy for All are a set of 60 cards intended for all individuals, on their own and in groups. The cards help to reflect on our intention, and to nurture a disposition to examine and improve our attitudes, skills, knowledge and understanding to better contribute to creating democratic spaces and improve our practices and behaviors for co-constructing a more just and happy society.
Open Space Technology (OST): An Attractive Method for Online Learning Conversations
Learning at home with a smartphone is different from sitting in a classroom with your peers and an instructor who is always available for questions and support. It is more than time to address the opportunities, to face the challenges and to broaden our own and our learners´ knowledge about how successful learning can be achieved in digital learning environments.
The pandemic’s price on youth
Exploring the pandemic’s price on youth Featuring the work of Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard Uncertainty for students has been around for a while. However, the present uncertainty triggered by the pandemic is of another scope and [...]
Student Wellbeing – A New Rapport Towards the Future
Student Wellbeing A New Rapport Towards the Future Featuring the work of Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard Our thoughts about the future determine in great ways where we focus our attention [...]
Weblab Reflections
Weblab Reflections by L2C Team As mentioned in our other posts about it, a weblab is an online space, outside the pressure of education systems, where educators, students and parents may engage in [...]
Thoughts about taking fewer things for granted
Thoughts about taking fewer things for granted... This is an extract of the reflections that emerged during Weblab 3 - [...]
What is culturally responsive teaching?
Culturally Responsive Teaching is a pedagogy that recognizes the importance of including students’ cultural references in all aspects of learning. Gloria Ladson-Billings, pedagogical theorist and teacher trainer, introduced the concept.
WebLab #2 – Deep Listening: Connecting to what emerges
WebLab 1 - Creating Space for Multilingualism
Highlight from the Teachers4Europe network
Highlights from the Teachers4Europe network
WebLab #1: Creating Space for Multilingualism
WebLab 1 - Creating Space for Multilingualism
Digital Learning
Learning at home with a smartphone is different from sitting in a classroom with your peers and an instructor who is always available for questions and support. It is more than time to address the opportunities, to face the challenges and to broaden our own and our learners´ knowledge about how successful learning can be achieved in digital learning environments.
WebLabs for Shared Learning
Learning Conversations for Teachers, Students, Parents and Families
Online Winter School: Learning 4Europe2Change
Call for Abstract - Online Winter School "Learning 4Europe2Change"
Violence against Teachers – A Statement
During the past weeks, L2C has held a series of webinars addressing challenges presented by COVID-19.Today, we share some highlights from "Empathy as a resource - finding and giving support during the COVID-19”, hosted by Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard with guest speaker and school psychologist Patricia Garouste.
The L2C Webinar Series during School Closures
During the past weeks, L2C has held a series of webinars addressing challenges presented by COVID-19.Today, we share some highlights from "Empathy as a resource - finding and giving support during the COVID-19”, hosted by Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard with guest speaker and school psychologist Patricia Garouste.
International e-Conference: Promoting European values in the time of social distancing
International e-Conference: Promoting European values in the time of social distancing
Using Platforms Students Like
An extract of our webinar 'Tips and tools for teaching online during COVID school closures" held on March 20 2020. Audrey Cheynut talks about how to create a lesson using only WhatsApp. Simple, fun, and cooperative!
The 5S Infographic
Authentic and meaningful recommendations for teachers challenged by COVID-19. Feel free to share.
How to get organised for online teaching
In this article, we give you a few tips for a constructive cooperative online discussion with your colleagues as well as an overview of a few online tools that you may find useful in adjusting your teaching to the COVID-19 situation.
Cards for Democracy Activity Series: Where do I stand?
The Cards for Democracy Series proposes a set of educational activities for teaching, training and coaching events.
The Conversation Series: Resources to Co-construct Resiliency
For Patricia, trauma is a bad event that produces bad emotions. To deal with these, she says you do not have to go deep into personal history or again from the trauma… How you find a new balance - transform a negative experience in something to ‘grow up for yourself’ - is what is interesting.
The Conversation Series: A Job and a Passion
Passionately pursuing a job in teaching!
Education for the Prevention of Crimes against Humanity
Education for the Prevention of Crimes against Humanity is a 6-hour teacher training course that focuses on some of the issues associated with educating young people to prevent Crimes against Humanity.
An Imaginary Journey around the World
How guided imagery meditations can bust stereotypes and send us globe-trotting!
Grouping Techniques for 2019
Many of you want to shift your focus from teaching to learning. You are interested in collective intelligence, cooperative learning, co-construction of knowledge, participation and student voice… If so, then you probably see teachers as facilitators of learning and you are probably always looking for new and creative ways to divide a class or a big group into small groups! This article can help you.
The Conversation Series: Critical Thinking and Socratic Questioning
Imagine if we became more competent in Socratic thinking, would this be liberating?
Short Films to Teach Human Rights and Save Lives
Documentary films can enrich any lesson or professional development workshop in several ways. The present article offers ideas on how teachers and trainers can exploit short documentaries with pre- and post-viewing activities and give a meaningful follow-up task to help vulnerable groups.
Sociocracy for Choosing Class Delegates
Changing the way students choose their representatives using the sociocratic method.
The Conversation Series: Consent Decision-Making for Student Voice
Giving students the role of facilitator got them to realize how challenging it is to get 30 people to participate and listen to each other.
Decolonise the Textbook
If we want to move towards a culture-sensitive education then it is time to decolonise the EFL textbook!
Tous extraordinaires!
A tried and tested activity for the successful beginning of a new scholastic year!
L2C on the Shore
Because even democratic teachers need a good break!
The Online Social Space
The Online Social Space - Fostering Democracy and Human Rights in Online Environments is a 6-hour teacher training course that focuses on the challenge of creating respectful online environments.
Nothing Is What It First Seems
Ever wondered how you could get from a farm to outer space in a few minutes? Here is the description of a wonderful team-building activity… with a twist!
My Journey: Student Teachers’ Self-Assessment with Cards for Democracy
The Cards for Democracy can make an activity that supports personal and professional growth even more meaningful.
Quit Teaching and Start Eating Avocados
Is it possible to actually teach? What can we learn from growing an avocado?
Cards for Democracy for All
The Cards for Democracy for All are out now!
Introducing the Core Set of the Cards for Democracy Series
Announcing the launch of the central pack of the Cards for Democracy Series. Join us live on 3 April at 19:00 CET.
Why History Matters
What was taught in your history lessons and how was it taught? Is history used or abused to shape who we are?
Teachers and Politics
No matter what we do in the classroom, our actions are always political. This blog revisits some of the best articles we published on the topic of teachers and politics in 2017.
Best of 2017
2017 has been an exciting year for Learn to Change and this blog post wishes to celebrate some of the best articles from this past year.
Teaching and Identity
As teachers, reflecting on our identity takes on a whole new meaning and responsibility as we examine and align our beliefs and values with our actions.
The “One” Book… (1)
This is the first of a series of posts that will explore the books that have shaped who we are, what we do and how we do it...
Has Education for Democracy Failed?
Most civics education today at best educates young people to be voters, not to participate in a democracy. Considering today's enormous disruptions and challenges, educating children to be ‘good voters’ is no longer a reasonable answer.
Taking Education for Democracy a Step Further
The way we choose to do things in the classroom today has a direct impact on the world of tomorrow.
Multicultural Education to Promote Human Rights Education
Multicultural education is a team effort and for it to serve as a means of promoting human rights education, it needs a multi-pronged approach.
Teaching Gender Issues: An Oral History and Civics Project
History education contributes to peace, stability and democracy but can recreating the past help us to shape our possible futures?
Establishing a Safe Learning Space
3 activities to nurture the democratic ethos and non-violent dynamics of a group you are in charge of is a good way to start the year!
7 Ideas for a More Democratic Year at School
Finding and investing time in on-going personal and professional development throughout the scholastic year can be a daunting task. The activities presented in this post aim to support such a commitment.
Multiperspectivity and Map Projections
It is not easy for us to accept other perspectives that question what we assume to be ultimate truths. However, there are many possible ways of viewing the world and all may be equally valid and equally partial.
Learn to Change Resource Series
The Learn to Change Resource Series is an initiative to support educators and learners, providing detailed descriptions of training sessions for educators on a topic of interest related to democracy and human rights.
Learning to Teach
The opportunity for ongoing professional development is probably within a few steps in the classroom next door...
Can a video game teach us about learning?
Video games can be a stimulus to actively engage students to learn and reflect about learning!
Recognizing Intercultural Competence
A self-assessment tool to help us recognize and reflect on where we and our students are on the road to intercultural competence.
6 Steps for 60 Million Teachers and their Students
Six steps teachers and their students can take to start making the world a better place!
Teacher Agency to Change Education
The power of teacher collaboration: challenges and steps to take.
What are tests good for?
Tests, whether standardized or not, remain increasingly popular and in spite of lip service arguing differently, in many instances, they continue to be the main form of assessment in the majority of educational settings. But what do tests really do?
Being a Teacher
What does it mean to "be a teacher"? More than anything else, being a teacher means being all that we want our children to be.
Cards for Democracy – Assessment and Evaluation Practices Revisited
Today we would like to share with you another activity based on “Cards for Democracy” that helps teachers develop their competence for democratic practices at the classroom level with a particular focus on assessment and evaluation practices.
60 Million Teachers
What can 60 million teachers and their students do? They just have the power to change the world for the better...
Sanctified or Vilified – Teachers in a Neo-Liberal Age
Teachers have been both cited as crucial to the success of any educational system but at the same time criticised, and occasionally vilified, for the failings of current educational standards. Where does the profession stand?
Ice breaking, Team building, Energising… It is All about Framing Cooperation!
Next time you think you can do without one, think again!
Cards for Democracy – Teachers’ Edition
Cards for Democracy are an opportunity for educators to reflect on, examine and improve their attitudes, skills and knowledge to better support democratic processes and improve their own practices and behaviours.
How I added wikis to my teaching quiver
Have you ever been in need of a tool which could help you organize your work in manageable and meaningful units? Would you fancy a space where all members of the group you work with could contribute to? How does the idea of a quick feedback procedure sound to you? Wiki may be a valuable "arrow" in your quiver!
The math serves the conversation, the conversation doesn’t serve the math: learning through inquiry
There is ample space for improvement on the discrimination front in teaching maths!
A Call to Action
Learn to change – Change to learn… there are many promises in these words.
What Happened on the L2C Blog in 2016?
As we look ahead to 2017 we decided to take a moment to revisit the articles featured in The Learn to Change (L2C) blog over the past months.
Fun in Learning: L2C’s Take on Activities from TESL Database
Creativity, fun and play contribute to meaningful learning when teachers and facilitators host memorable moments that encourage horizontal learning relationships.
Building a Local Community of Education Professionals
Despite the fact that most teachers are overworked and underpaid in Hungary, they meet once a month voluntarily; the sense of belonging to a learning community gives them energy to become the change and helps prevent burnout.
Teacher Diaries… Creating Cooperative Micro-Groups
A teacher's reflection on grouping students cooperatively while promoting democratic competences.
Aftermath of Elections: Teachers Respond
Are you disheartened? It’s a time to build brave hearts.
The Backwards Brain Bicycle
Knowledge is not the same as understanding or having information: read this story about a man and a very unique bike.
A First Milestone for Learn to Change
Teachers need a deeper understanding of how intercultural competence can be developed and assessed in today’s classrooms for better social cohesion and cooperation.
Self-assessment for the Improvement of Practice
Self-assessment – the process of assessing one’s own skills, aptitude or performance – is a key part of improving one’s practice.
Let’s Build Rapport – 5 Fun Activities for Educators
With each new learning adventure come new challenges - establishing a rapport with the class/group is of paramount importance!
Education for Refugee Students
Fostering access to education for refugee students, asylum seekers and migrant children is important if we wish to shape a positive future.
Welcome to L2C
Welcome to the official website of Learn to Change – an international organisation that provides learning opportunities for personal and professional development.