Educate the mind to educate the heart
Classroom Management Survival Camp

Motivation & Leadership

Objectives:

During the course, participants will come across everything they always wanted to know about classroom management (but were afraid to ask) by:

  • learning about the ins and outs of classroom management (and all its little secrets)
  • developing applicable skills and techniques that can be used to establish positive relationships with students.
  • learning about how to handle students escalations and defuse complicated and stressful situations with class and style.
  • apprehending the ever-changing cultural / psychological / social diversity of students to help fostering an academically motivating environment
  • assessing the right way to implement a sustainable and efficient classroom management policy at school by integrating parents and all school staff.
  • exchanging good practices and sharing experiences about classroom management with teachers and education staff from all over Europe;
  • experiencing real case studies of challenging classrooms situations.

PLUS:

  • participants will have the opportunity to discuss good practices and daily challenges with local teachers
  • participants will visit sites, museums, monuments and participate in our tailor-made activities.

Price: 400€ + 50€ Administration fee

- for packages with accommodation please contact us directly

Classroom Management Survival Camp next sessions

Gdańsk, Poland

  • 16-20 June 2025
  • 14-18 July 2025
  • 19-23 January 2026
  • 18-22 May 2026

Venice, Italy

  • 3-7 March 2025
  • 5-9 May 2025
  • 22-26 September 2025
  • 20-24 October 2025

Chantilly, France

  • 10-14 February 2025
  • 26-30 May 2025
  • 10-14 November 2025
  • 16-20 March 2026

What to expect ?

With this course, you will acquire the most fundamental and important concepts of the ecology and ICT at school.

But what does it concretely mean?

  • learning about the concept of Smart Classrooms and its implementation.
    - developing applicable skills and techniques that can be used to establish innovative ESD methodologies with students.
  • boosting up their technology skills for adapting their teaching method and offer students the appropriate support they require in a ‘green’ context.
  • reflecting on how to create tech-savy green projects.
  • reviewing available strategies for introducing digital tools adapted to ESD policies.
  • assessing the right way to implement long-term strategies on ESD in their school.
  • exchanging good practices and sharing experiences with teachers and education staff from all over Europe.

More?

You will attend workshops organized by local professionals involved in sustainable developpement. You will dive into the cultural and historical facettes of the City.
Daily program
Day 1

Day of arrival: Typical local Aperitif (optional)

  • Participants’ arrival
  • Individual orientation and information about the venue and the city
  • Expectations and setting goals for the week
  • Networking activities
  • Course introduction
  • Ice-breaking activities
  • The basics of classroom management: essential skills, can & can't of a class leader
  • Switching from classroom management to classroom leadership
Day 2
  • The science of motivation: engage students in participative, collaborative learning
  • How to communicate your message: what to do so that students can learn
  • FOMO: the fear of missing-out or the reason why students do not listen
  •  Increase focus and decrease distraction
Day 3
  • Breaking the desperation cycle
  • Shifting from praise to encouragement
  • Develop a student-centred classroom and peer-to-peer collaboration
  • Increase students engagement: from 'May I' to 'How & Why'
Day 4
  • Promoting teamwork: when the group becomes a team
  • Social cohesion vs task cohesion: a comparative approach
  • No classroom management without self-management
  • Develop an effective whole school approach to behaviour
Day 5
  • Space for discussion of future cooperation and planning follow up activities
  • Course roundup and final evaluation
  • Validation of learning outcomes and certification ceremony
  • Additional training session tailored to specific needs (optional)
  • Participants departure
  • Guided visit in Paris / Venice (optional) motivation leadership classroom management learn institute erasmus + training
  • Presented programme is just an overview of what you can expect.
  • Once we complete a group of participants of each session we adjust the programme to the group, participants' experience and expectations.