Teachers and leaders of primary and secondary schools from European countries are welcome to apply to the 2014 Open Discovery Space (ODS) Summer School in Attica, Greece.
The Open Discovery Space Summer School 2014 is a school development and innovation course, addressed to teachers and school leaders. The aim of the course is to support school innovation and to train teachers and leaders of European schools to act as successful change agents in their schools and to promote the development of their schools into open learning communities, and thus improve the quality of all aspects of schooling. The course is thus addressed to members of school staff who are already acting or are willing to act as committed mediators of innovation in their schools. It will be a participatory learning course, that will address participants’ and schools’ real needs. The participants will therefore be invited to monitor their schools’ profiles and assess their needs, as well as to acknowledge their own professional competences, so as to then set specific development goals. The course will also focus on promoting the opening-up of the school, and will therefore explore parental engagement in schooling as a key aspect that can foster innovation and facilitate school development and quality of learning. The course will include presentations of actual experiences, lectures, interviews, group-work, observations and some playful activities aimed to stimulate out-of-the-box thinking and innovation.
Teachers and school leaders who are interested in the ODS Summer School 2014 can apply to their National Agencies for ERASMUS+ funding, under Key Action 1, “Individual mobility”. Although the type of action is entitled “Individual mobility”, the applications are submitted by the participants’ schools- no individual applications can be submitted. The deadline for funding applications is 17 March 2014, 12:00 CET.
More information of the summer school and registration: http://ods.ea.gr/content/welcome-open-discovery-space-summer-school-2014