This course offers you the opportunity to improve your English. In addition, if you achieve the required level, you can take an exam to obtain an internationally recognized Cambridge English certificate. The course is taught by the British Language Training Center (see www.bltc.nl for more information) and takes place at Marcanti College.

The Cambridge English course is offered to employees at three levels:
1. Cambridge English First (B2)
2. Cambridge English Advanced (C1)
3. Cambridge English Proficiency (C2)

Prior to the course all participants will take an intake test to assign participants to the correct course level. Due to current circumstances, the training may be conducted online. In that case, the courses will take place via Zoom. During the intake process it is possible to practice with Zoom.

This course aims to improve the following skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking. For each lesson of 2 hours, there will be 2 hours of homework. Upon completion of the course and provided your attendance record is at least 70%, you will receive a BLTC certificate.

The FCE / CAE / CPE courses are taught in two blocks, consisting of 12 lessons of 2 hours. The cost of one block is €240,- (incl. Books, excl. Cambridge exam) with a minimum of 8 participants. The exam fee is €240,- FCE,
€ 260,- CAE, € 275,- CPE.

Your school will cover the costs of this course, so make sure you have discussed your participation with your immediate supervisor prior to attending.

If you would like to follow a course, please let us know so that we can bring you in contact with BLTC.

Are you a specialist teacher and working at a school that offers English-language education, but still uncertain about your English proficiency? Then this course could be for you. It aims to provide teachers with the knowledge and skills required to teach their own subject in English effectively.

Starting level: participants in this course are required to have a minimum English speaking skill level of B2.

The course content:

- Developing strategies for teaching specific subjects in English
- Learning classroom dynamics and classroom management in English
- Improving teaching skills in English
- Understanding the students’ perspective – learning in English
- Giving practice and feedback on using classroom English
- Giving mini-lessons and presentations in English
- Functional expressions and phrases appropriate to the classroom
- Specialist vocabulary and paraphrasing skills
- CLIL theory in practice

The course consists of four workshops of three hours. After completing the course, and provided your attendance record is 80%, you will receive a certificate of participation.

Your school will cover the costs of this course, so make sure you have discussed your participation with your immediate supervisor prior to attending.

Prior to the course, all participants will complete an intake test to determine their current level of English. Due to current circumstances, the training may be conducted online. In that case, the courses will be conducted via Zoom. During the intake process it is possible to practice with Zoom.

Dates: 26 January, 2 February, 9 February, 16 February
Location: to be determined
Costs: € 235,- per person

Would you like to develop and perfect your English-speaking skills? Then this course could be for you. It aims to improve your spoken English for more accurate and fluent communication in advanced contexts.

The course content:

- Developing native-like speaking skills
- Discussing literary texts for homework
- Completing vocabulary and idiom-building exercises
- Reviewing and practicing language functions to establish an appropriate tone
- Developing cohesion and coherence in speaking
- Role-playing and discussion activities
- Developing a range of functional expressions for more variety in speech
- Improving pronunciation on both word and sentence level- practicing individual sounds, word stress, sentence stress,
  connected speech, intonation, tone

Prior to the course, all participants will complete an intake test to determine their current level of English. Due to current circumstances, the training may be conducted online. In that case, the courses will be conducted via Zoom. During the intake process it is possible to practice with Zoom.

The course consists of 12 lessons of 2 hours. Your school will cover the costs of this course, so make sure you have discussed your participation with your immediate supervisor prior to attending. This course starts in 2021.


Dates: 25th January, 1st February,  8th February, 15 February, 1st March, 8 March, 15 March, 22 March, 29 March, 5 April, 12 April, 19 April
Time: 16:00 - 18:00.
Location: to be determined
Costs: XXX wordt waarschijnlijk lager nu 10 lessen i.p.v. 12

Unfortunately, it is no longer possible to sign up for this training because it has already started. However you can still express your interest and if there is enough interest, a second course will be started and we will inform you as soon as possible.

Do you want to lift your IT-basic skills to a higher level? During the course you will be taught the Google application basics in an accessible way. The interactive design of the course gives you space and time to ask questions and practice. When you are finished, you will have new knowledge and skills to make your use of Google for Education more effective and efficient.

The course covers:

- Google Drive
- Google Documents
- Gmail
- Google Calendar
- Goole Meet
- Google Classroom
- Google Presentations
- Google Forms

After finishing the course you will receive a Cloudwise Basic Skills Certificate, which demonstrates that you have the basic knowledge of Google Workspace for Education.

Please note: This course is given in Dutch. If your Dutch is good enough, you can sign up. If you do not speak Dutch well enough but are still interested, please let us know and we will look at the viability of organising an English-language version of the course.

Dates: to be determined
Time: 15:00-17:00
Location: online
Costs: €112,50 per participant

COOL means Cloudewise Online Education Learning platform. Using the COOL platform, students can find their work easily and go to applications from the publishers and other education materials easily. During this training you will explore what the COOL platform is, what the possibilities are and how you can implement it in your class.

During this training, you will learn:

- How to add and create applications in the COOL portal
- How to send and answer a message via the bulletin board
- How you can check your students
- How to use the basic settings
- How to change the passwords of students
- How to use the connection with Google Classroom

Please note: This course is given in Dutch. If your Dutch is good enough, you can sign up. If you do not speak Dutch well enough but are still interested, please let us know and we will look at the viability of organising an English-language version of the course.

Date: 26 January
Time: 16:00-17:00 (1 x 1 hour)
Location: online
Costs: €37,50 per participant

During times of distance education you can't get around it: working digitally with children. We had to adapt ourselves, but what did we learn? Did you discover the benefits? Even when the students are back in the classroom you can still continue to work digitally.

During this workshop you will work with practical examples to utilize different Google Classroom and Google Forms tools, to make your teaching experience as paperless as possible. We will also focus on communication with students, collaboration and active learning. Stimulate your students to work together online and let Google be an addition to your education.

You will learn how to:

- Stimulate collaboration with digital resources
- Hand over knowledge and make presentations with applications such as Google Jamboard
- Communicate paperless, in an interactive way with Google Classroom, Spreadsheet, Documents and Sites
- Make tests and learn actively with Google forms and Presentations

Note: this is an advanced training. Therefore, it is important that you are familiar with the Drive, Gmail, Documents and Calendar application.

Please note: This course is given in Dutch. If your Dutch is good enough, you can sign up. If you do not speak Dutch well enough but are still interested, please let us know and we will look at the viability of organising an English-language version of the course.

Date: This course has already started. Are you interested in following this course as well? Let us know!
Time: 15:00-17:00
Location: online
Costs: €50,- per participant

Do you want to teach in a coaching way? Do you like to reflect on what is going well and do you want to motivate your students?
Do you want to know how to be able to motivate a student on an intrinsic level? And how you can involve them into your lessons? This training 'Coaching and Motivating Students' gives you practical tools you can implement immediately.

This training is meant for teachers who want to coach in a solution-oriented way and who want to teach motivated students. During this training you will share your best practices and gain practical skills. You will learn how to bring out the best in your students. You also gain knowledge about the psychology of motivation. You'll have the newest relevant insights in developing your lessons and learn techniques you can apply directly. The outcomes? Better student results, more fun at work and a motivational learning environment.

What this training brings you:

- Applicable coaching styles and techniques
- Active students and greater motivation
- Better results
- More fun at work
- Familiarization with the psychology of motivation
- Newest relevant insights to develop your lessons

Day 1: Conditions to motivate, self-determination theory, growth mindset, compliments, concrete tools like SMART-goals and schale-coaching
Day 2: Motivating and activating lessons, levels of input, concrete tools like circle technique and WhyWhatHow
Day 3: Compliments, situational guiding and concrete tools like exceptional questioning, pedagogical tact
Day 4: Returning day for safeguarding of knowledge: applying challenging cases

Please note: This course is given in Dutch. If your Dutch is good enough, you can sign up. If you do not speak Dutch well enough but are still interested, please let us know and we will look at the viability of organising an English-language version of the course.

Dates: 19 January, 16 February, 16 March. Coaching moment will be planned in consultation
Time: 14:00 - 18:00
Location: Marcanti College
Cost: € 500,- per person

Has your work become more complex and you want to be better prepared for it? Do you want to do more tasks together with your colleagues so you can support education even better? Are you ready for personal growth?

Then the Non-Teaching Staff Course is for you. This updated training course offers the opportunity to strengthen your position as a member of the non-teaching staff further and broaden your development to other areas within non-teaching roles.

The course focuses on your personal development linked to practice, regardless of what position you hold as a member of the non-teaching staff. In fact, the more diverse the participants in the group, the better.

We give you a practical assignment to work on what interests you and fits within your job description, and we learn from each other and from other schools. If you’re interested, sign up for this course!

If you’d like more information about the programme, sign up for the online information meeting (via Google Meet). Coach Brigit Verbeek will explain the programme (in Dutch). The information meeting is from 15:00 to 16:00 on 14 September.

Please note: This course is given in Dutch. If your Dutch is good enough, you can sign up. If you do not speak Dutch well enough but are still interested, please let us know and we will look at the viability of organising an English-language version of the course.

Dates:  Are you interested in following this course? Let us know
Times:  9:00 - 13:00.
Location: Marcanti College
Costs: € 790,- per person

The offer consists of an Excel basic training (A) and an advanced training (B).
 
A) Excel Basic
In this course you will learn to work more effectively, more efficiently and faster with Excel. You learn the basic functionalities of Excel and you get a brief insight into making calculations.

Content:

- Exploring Excel: what to do with Excel, visibility in the screen, use the ribbon, adjust the quick access toolbar
- Input and navigation: input and confirm, change cell content, delete content / format / all, undo
- Worksheets: find and replace, spelling correction
- Use files: create, open, close and save files, use templates, save as PDF version
- Row and column operations; resize, insert, delete, hide, visible rows and columns
- Edit worksheet; moving and copying, creating series, group operations
- Formulas; creating basic formulas, precedence rules of operators, using basic function, copying and performing calculations, using an absolute reference
- Format: format cell contents, adjust cell alignment, merge cells
 
B) Excel Advanced - Tables & Databases

Do you already have more experience with Excel and do you want to get more out of the program? Then this course might suit you better. You learn to work with tables and databases and you will see how pivot tables can be used. After this training you can easily create a graph or a table within Excel. You will also be able to automatically sort and merge files within Excel.

Content of the training:
- Conditional formatting (highlight rules, data bars)
- Presenting data with graphs (creating graphs)
- Insert tables (formatting in tables and formulas)
- Filtering (single, multiple, by number/date etc)
- Create pivot tables (group, calculate, filter with slicers etc)

Please note: These courses will be given in Dutch. If your Dutch is good enough, you can sign up. If you do not speak Dutch well enough but are still interested, please let us know and we will look at the viability of organising an English-language version of the course.
 
Dates: Are you interested in following this course? Let us know!
Trainer: Bernard, Westhage trainingen
Time: 14:00 - 17:00
Location: Marcanti College

Do you want every student to be heard and receive the right care? In this training you learn to recognize the care-signals and to take preventive action to guide these students in an optimal way. The training is meant for teachers who have students with special needs in their classes and want to learn how to give these students the best guidance.

What this training brings you:

- Learn to accommodate different needs and to create and maintain a safe learning environment
- Practice with dialogue techniques for communicating with special needs students
- Gain more insight into students with ADHD/autism/NLD/dyslexia/dyscalculia

Day 1: What is difficult behavior and what is the effect on the teacher? Different roles of the teacher, theory about boundary crossing behavior: causes and needs, how to act in a situation of escalation.
Day 2: Teacher as coach, conflict management, role of the coaching mediator during conflict between students, dialogue techniques to connect to your students.
Day 3: Specifying the dialogue techniques, working with rewarding and positive feedback; best practices, strong qualities and points of improvement.
Day 4: Returning day for safeguarding of knowledge: applying challenging cases.

Please note: This course is given in Dutch. If your Dutch is good enough, you can sign up. If you do not speak Dutch well enough but are still interested, please let us know and we will look at the viability of organising an English-language version of the course.

Dates:  This course has already started. Are you interested in following this course as well? Let us know!
Time: 14:00-18:00
Location: Marcanti College
Cost: € 425,- per person

From 1 August 2021, every school in the Netherlands must have an examination board to monitor the quality of tests and exams. But what else is expected of an examination board? What are the duties, roles and responsibilities of its members? And what is needed to start operating as a fully-fledged examination board?

The aim of the course is to provide you with insight into the most important tasks, roles and responsibilities of the examination board, as well as the underlying legal framework and inspection framework.

What the course covers:
- What are our responsibilities as an examination board?
- Why do we do these things?
- How can we do these things well?
- Who sits on the examination board, and what are the individual members’ responsibilities?
- What arrangements do we need to make regarding organisation and processes?

Outcomes of this course:
- What: the basic knowledge (roles, tasks, responsibilities) needed to be able to make a good, realistic and phased start as an examination board, plus sample documents to build on;
- Why: a clear vision of what we intend to achieve with the examination board, and why;
- How: a complete picture of what is needed for a good test and examination system, and how this can be achieved (testing policy, knowledge about test quality, agreements, etc.);
- Who: which people do we need on the examination board, and how can we make sure they have the right competencies and skills;
- What else: clear, binding agreements with regard to organisation and processes based on an integrative and complete view of the quality of tests and assessments and assuring this quality.

Please note: This course is given in Dutch. If your Dutch is good enough, you can sign up. If you do not speak Dutch well enough but are still interested, please let us know and we will look at the viability of organising an English-language version of the course.

Dates: This course has already started. Are you interested in following this course as well? Let us know!
Times: 14:00-17:00
Location: Marcanti College
Costs: € 208- per person (by participation 12 persons)

Did you know:
- Esprit Schools is working on high-quality technology education in Amsterdam?
- In the context of internationally oriented education, the AICS offers a Career-Related Programme (CP) and an International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (PYP), and DENISE and ALASCA have added the IP-DP programme to their profile?
- The 4th Gymnasium and Mundus College are participating in Community Urban Education?
- Esprit has partnered with the Westelijke Tuinsteden public primary education foundation (STWT) to provide education to students from the 3rd and 4th years in primary education and first years in secondary education with the Spring High programme?
- Students at DENISE can take exams in Turkish and Arabic?

And did you know that next year, we’ll be launching a professional learning community as a meeting place with a broader view to share innovative ideas? This is a place where we learn from other schools, other perspectives, and other professionals within Esprit.

In the 2021/2022 academic year, we’re organising four inspiration sessions. A 90-minute online debriefing session will follow each session.

Design of the programme:

1- Introduction to Esprit: Conversation with the board about the educational vision at Esprit and the social issues/themes in Amsterdam such as internationalisation, educational innovation, as well as promoting equality of opportunity. We look at this topic from different perspectives and learn from each other's ideas.

2- Amsterdam as a learning environment: Two teachers from Esprit schools share their insights and experiences in Community Urban Education and teaching in a metropolitan environment. Teachers immerse you in their inspired stories about the knowledge sharing that has arisen between the schools and the effects of this for their own schools.

3- International education: Why does a school choose to offer international education? Do children get the same curriculum as in every international school worldwide? What does an International Baccalaureate programme mean for a school?
In this session, two teachers from different schools share their experiences in international education.

4- Innovative educational concepts: How can a unique learning environment be created at the intersection of the present and the future? How is educational innovation shaped at Esprit Schools? Esprit is working with other schools, local authorities and companies on a Tech School in Amsterdam. In this meeting, two professionals talk about new educational concepts at Esprit Schools.

During the debriefing sessions, the previous meeting is reviewed and where possible the practical applications are identified. Debriefing sessions will be held on: 11 October 2021, 13 December 2021, 10 February 2022, and 13 April 2022.

Please note: This course is given in Dutch. If your Dutch is good enough, you can sign up. If you do not speak Dutch well enough but are still interested, please let us know and we will look at the viability of organising an English-language version of the course.

Dates: Starts in February 2022, dates will follow
Times: 15:00-17:00
Location: Marcanti College
Costs: € 500,- per person

Do you want to improve your communication toward the students and their parents? Do you want to strengthen contact with the parents and avoid aggression? If so, this training is something for you!
At some point, almost everyone has had a difficult conversation with a student, parent or colleague. It is important that you are clear about the content, set boundaries and can achieve cooperation together. The development of conflict skills and de-escalating conversation techniques will contribute to your professional and personal development. This training will allow you to become more aware, relaxed and effective in your communication.

During this training, you will gain experience in the basics of the theory. You will practice different forms of skills and you will experience the effects of those skills. Subjects which will be addressed are:

1- Conflict escalation (Friederich Glasl); identify conflicts, the dynamics of a conflict (escalation and de-escalation)
2- Communicating in a problem-solving way; from standpoints to interests (layers of questions) and dealing with emotions (recognizing/acknowledging emotions and applying interventions)
3- Personal conflict management style (Thomas Kilmann); own qualities and own pitfalls. Mediation and mediation skills; types of interventions and types of questions
4- Conflict prevention; expectation management and respectfully setting boundaries

Dates: January 2022
Time: to be determined
Location: Marcanti College
Costs: € 394,40 per person

Orientation to Leadership is a program focused on employees who would like to become better orientated on school leadership.
During this program you will gain insight in motives and ambitions regarding leadership. You will get insight in your qualities, you will learn what a leadership job at school means and you will develop a leadership perspective. The program consists of a mix of theoretical and practical in-depth trainings of all sorts of aspects of leadership, including the following:

1- Kick-off meeting (two days in October 2021); Understanding your qualities and pitfalls; you will also gain insight into your communication style (during daily work, but also in stressful circumstances or during resistance). What is your influence on others and when are you effective, result-oriented, engaged and when not? You will work during this route on an improvement process and a renewal process (which you have discussed with your supervisor).

2- Leading others (November 2021); During this module you will further develop your own vision on leadership, based on theory and and sharing experiences with others; how will I lead my employees and let them perform their best in a constructive, daring, safe and stimulated climate?

3- Research skills (November 2021/December 2021); You will learn the basis of practical qualitative and quantitative research. You will learn different techniques to sort information and to prioritize, analyze and make conclusions and determine the follow-up actions based on your research.

4- Educational leadership (January 2022); Leadership is mainly leading education and learning. You will work on your own vision on teaching and educating based on theories and literature; how will I lead the education in my school and how will I create a culture where teachers can make their own contemporary, innovative and high quality lessons?

5- Having duo-conversations with a trainer (Febuary 2022); There will be a coaching conversation with the trainer. During this conversation you will talk about the balance of the development and decide which goals are yet to reach.

6- Lead teams (March 2022); The supervisor is, next to daily and substantive leadership, also responsible for the development of the team. Next to the daily practice, the supervisor also has an eye for the procedures of the team, the interaction processes and the present emotions and feelings. During this meeting, you will learn how to cooperate and communicate effectively as well as the guidance of possible conflicts and the learning of and with each other.

7- HRM + following a coaching conversation with the trainer (April 2022); During this module you will receive insight in the basic of HRM-themes: a contemporary personnel policy, challenging and motivating employees, professionalization policy and assertively handling colleagues who are not functioning well. This module will end with a coaching conversation with a case you have brought.

8- Change management and completion of the course with a certificate (May 2022); You will learn a theoretical basis about change inside of a school; how do you tackle a change process, what will be your roll, what will be your superior's role, what will be your employees' role? How is ownership being created, will people get space and responsibilities as well as clear lines and goals? During this last meeting, you will present the practical assignment within the group.

9- Completion (Juni 2022); You will have an wrap up conversation with your superior about your development, learning outcomes and ambitions.

This program is a short version of an education project and derived from a complete management course from NSO-CNA.

Please note: This course is given in Dutch. If your Dutch is good enough, you can sign up. If you do not speak Dutch well enough but are still interested, please let us know and we will look at the viability of organising an English-language version of the course.

Date: 27 januari en 8 februari, 7 mach en 22 march, 4 april, 12 mei, 17 may, 7 june, 12 september, 27 september and 25 october.
Time: 9:00 - 17:00
Location: Marcanti College
Costs: € 1938,- per person

Unfortunately, it is no longer possible to sign up for this course because it has already started. However you can still express your interest and if there is enough interest, a second course will be started and we will inform you as soon as possible.

During this training, you will become familiar with guiding and coaching students who are becoming teachers. Following this course is mandatory for teacher-coaches./

During this training you will gain an understanding of the requirements which the students have to fulfill, you will learn the coaching skills and gain insight on feedback strategies. Themes which will be discussed:

- Exploration of your own coaching skills and have a coaching conversation
- Learning to observe versus interpret
- Conversation techniques and promote reflection to the students
- Learning of the teachers in training
- Giving and receiving feedback

The certificate you will receive at the end has got the quality mark of 'Register Leraar'.

Please note: This course is given in Dutch. If your Dutch is good enough, you can sign up. If you do not speak Dutch well enough but are still interested, please let us know and we will look at the viability of organising an English-language version of the course.

Primary:
Dates: 28 September, 5 October and 12 October (sign-up ends 7 September).
Time: 14:45-17:00
Trainer: HvA
Location: Burg. de Vlugtschool, Jan de Louterstraat 11, Amsterdam.
Costs: € 500,- per person (paid for by the Education School)

Secondary:
The course for secondary education has already started. Visit leraar een kleurrijk beroep for more information.

*Condition is the coaching of a student

Do you want to work on educational improvements or innovation at school? Do you want practical tools to help you achieve better results faster? Are you looking for ways to get your team on board? In this course, you will work alongside a few colleagues from your own school. You will get tools that have helped and improved the experiences of tens of thousands of teachers in the classroom every day at the thousand schools that work with leerKRACHT.

The leerKRACHT approach is based on working as a team of teachers to improve education. Education is gradually improved in small steps, while you learn from each other. The leerKRACHT foundation offers an approach with a proven impact. It creates a culture in schools where it becomes second nature to implement educational improvements together. We call this ‘a little better together every day’.

The programme consists a combination of practical application at school and guidance from leerKRACHT experts:

- Three half days where you are given tools that you and your colleagues can use to convert your ambitions at school into a concrete goal with the four leerKRACHT instruments, with corresponding actions, use in lessons, getting feedback from students, and achieving success. During the training you also get to work on the four parts of the leerKRACHT change model that you need to get your whole team on board with educational innovation.

- Use at school: After each training, you and your colleagues at school go to work to take the next step to reach your educational goal and get colleagues on board.


Please note: This course is given in Dutch. If your Dutch is good enough, you can sign up. If you do not speak Dutch well enough but are still interested, please let us know and we will look at the viability of organising an English-language version of the course.

Dates: 10 November, 24 November and 9 February (13:30 - 17:00)
Location: Marcanti College
Costs: € 300,-

Being a teacher in Amsterdam is an interesting, varied job. You face important, complex challenges that require collective, sustainable, and realistic answers. Systematically working together on high-quality education means you take the initiative in educational development and use your expertise and affinity to influence colleagues, school leaders and other actors inside and outside the school. This is also referred to as teacher leadership. Teacher leadership requires schools and school leaders to share leadership and requires teachers to recognise their leadership, translate it into action, and engage others.

The Teacher Leadership course is designed to help you as a teacher to take the initiative in educational development at your school and get your colleagues on board. With this in mind, the course offers you the opportunity to develop leadership skills together with colleagues from other schools in Amsterdam and to gain insights in educational development and change processes. In this way, it is both a personal leadership course and a course designed to facilitate school development.

Design and method:
The programme consists of five all-day work sessions (6 hours), three master classes, and three intervision sessions. During the course, participants are given an assignment to work on in their own school and to share their knowledge and insights collectively. The experiences they have at their schools are used as input for the next meeting. Aside from the focus on change management, personal leadership and communication are two other important foundations of this course.

Dates
The 2021-2022 course will take place on the following (provisional) dates:

• Work sessions (09:30 - 16:30)
The provisional dates are: 19-11, 21-1, 4-3, 15-4, 3-6 and 11-11.

• Masterclasses on Thursdays (16:00 - 19:00)
The provisional dates are: 10-2, 10-3, 12-5, 15-9.

• Intervision meetings on Friday (13.30-16.30)
The provisional dates are: 18-2, 25-3, 22-4, 17-6, 7-10.

Trainers: Andre Koffeman (secondary), Marco Snoek (primary and secondary) and Ben Snoeijink (pimary)
Costs: € 695

Please note: This course is given in Dutch. If your Dutch is good enough, you can sign up. If you do not speak Dutch well enough but are still interested, please let us know and we will look at the viability of organising an English-language version of the course.

More information or sign up? Go to:
Primary: https://leraareenkleurrijkberoep.nl/persoonsontwikkeling-voor-leraren-in-het-po/leerarrangement-gedeeld-leiderschap/formulier-leerarrangement-leiderschap-van-leraren-po/
Secondary: https://leraareenkleurrijkberoep.nl/voor-de-leraren/inschrijfformulier-leergang-leiderschap-van-leraren-2021-2022-vo-mbo

Is it important to you to develop throughout your working life at your school, and do you take personal responsibility for this? Leraareenkleurrijkberoep.nl has designed a learning package in which coaching, working, learning and development go hand in hand to create a learning culture where coaching becomes second nature (partly thanks to you) and where you create development opportunities with your colleagues.

In stimulating career development, teachers and managers need each other to identify opportunities and embed them in the context of the work environment, in which where formal and informal learning go hand in hand. Individual learning is linked to collective learning and increasingly a vision of career-oriented working and professional development has arisen from within.

This learning package is designed for teachers who are already coaches or who are about to deepen their knowledge in this area in the context of the ideas set out above. These teachers offer coaching support to new and current colleagues in the context of their schools and would like to develop themselves further in this area. Preference is given to pairs registering from the same work context.

Please note: This course is given in Dutch. If your Dutch is good enough, you can sign up. If you do not speak Dutch well enough but are still interested, please let us know and we will look at the viability of organising an English-language version of the course.

Dates:
In consultation:

October – Systemic Diagnosis

December – Walk-in moment

February – Coaching on the job

Shared moments with all participants.

Wednesday 10 Nov. 2021 (16:00 – 20:00)
Wednesday 26 Jan. 2022 (16:00 – 20:00)
Wednesday 9 Mar 2022 (16:00 – 20:00)
Wednesday 13 April 2022 closing with school management and coaches. (16:00 – 20:00)

Trainer: Willem Plomp
Costs: € 495,- per participant

More information or sign up? Go to:
https://leraareenkleurrijkberoep.nl/persoonsontwikkeling-voor-leraren-in-het-po/leerarrangement-coach-light/formulier-pedagogisch-didactisch-coachen-leren-van-binnenuit/

Experienced teachers are distinguished from new teachers by their comprehensive repertoire of actions and their capacity to apply this knowledge and skill adaptively and creatively. The forced transition from physical to online education has made this even clearer. In this course, you explore existing and yet-unknown methodologies with colleagues from your own and other schools. You ask yourself whether and how these methods are suitable for your subject, school and above all your students, and of course the current situation.

We go through the cycle of aspiration, exploration, analysis and experience for various pedagogical-didactic approaches. A number of sessions are reserved for this to really give you the time to experience what an approach can mean in practice. Observations in practice (online and physical) and master classes offer you insights that you can link to your own vision; development sessions provide concrete material and approaches for use in practice.

Please note: This course is given in Dutch. If your Dutch is good enough, you can sign up. If you do not speak Dutch well enough but are still interested, please let us know and we will look at the viability of organising an English-language version of the course.

Dates: 5 November, 3 December, 14 January, 11 February, 18 March, 15 April, 20 May, 17 June
Times: 10:00-16:00
Trainer: Anna Kaal and Elmar van Ee
Location: Vrije Universiteit (VU), Boelelaan 1105, Amsterdam
Costs: € 875,-

More information or sign up? Go to:
https://leraareenkleurrijkberoep.nl/voor-de-leraren/formulier-leergang-expert-pedagogiek-en-didactiek-2021-2022/

Do you ever think about your career? Would you like to broaden or deepen yourself within your profession as a teacher? Often, much more is possible than most people realise, with a multitude of career prospects, especially in the metropolitan context of Amsterdam. This career orientation course is aimed at teachers who want to develop themselves and are looking for what will suit them. The objectives of this course are:

- to gain insight into your own competencies, strengths, challenges, ambitions and wishes;
- to gain knowledge of the vision of the teaching profession and the multitude of development opportunities and the career prospects available;
- to develop your own career plan that will guide your development over the next two years.

Design:

You are immersed in a learning process in which working with career questions is alternated with introduction, theory, inspiration and practice related to the teaching profession. The focus is on developing a new perspective on the substance of your role and profession in line with who you are and your ambitions.

The process starts with a brief intake in which mutual expectations are expressed.

During the first meeting (online), the course is explained in more detail and inspiration is offered based on the vision of the profession, career prospects and inspiring insights from practical experts. Various assignments are then offered, which can be worked on after the first and second meeting. You choose the assignments you want to do.  

During the second online meeting, you start working with the development tool CliftonStrengths. You gain insight into your talents at a deeper level and how you can use them to work well and perform effectively. You reflect on your ambitions, potential and challenges based on dynamic, activating exercises, peer-to-peer learning and exchange. With this, you also make a start on your career plan.

The last (physical) meeting focuses on the presentation of career plans with participants and trainers giving feedback on the presentations.

If you don’t speak Dutch but are interested in this course, we can offer you the development tool in combination with a workshop.

During this course, you use the development tool CliftonStrengths. You gain insight into your talents at a deeper level and how you can use them to work well and perform effectively. You reflect on your own ambitions, potential and challenges. Under the guidance of a trainer/coach, you work on your own career plan in a workshop with other participants on the basis of activating exercises.

Dates:
Primary Education Group 1. 25 november, 13 januari en 10 maart / Group 2. 26 januari, 16 maart en 11 mei.
Time (13:00 - 18:00)
Trainer: Leonie Blom and Jacqueline Sweerts
Location: Online
Costs: €295,-

More information or sign up? Go to:
https://leraareenkleurrijkberoep.nl/persoonsontwikkeling-voor-leraren-in-het-po/orientatie-op-loopbaanpaden/

Secondary Education: Unfortunately this course has already started for secondary education.