Soft Skills for Strong Teachers and Positive Schools

Name: Soft Skills for Strong Teachers and Positive Schools
Price: 400 EUR

Why this is Erasmus+ eligible

Structured, multi-day programme (5 days) with a pre-defined schedule and learning outcomes — not a passive lecture format.

Built around interaction: participants engage directly with the trainer and with peers from other countries throughout the course.

Transnational by design — open to participants travelling from outside the host country, a core requirement of Erasmus+ mobility funding.

Overview

Soft-skills training for teachers often means a single afternoon on “communication” — a workshop forgotten by the following Monday. Positive psychology has a more specific answer to what actually sustains a teacher through a hard year, and it isn’t generic communication tips.

Martin Seligman’s PERMA model, the framework behind modern positive psychology, breaks wellbeing into five measurable components: Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning and Accomplishment. This training uses it as a lens on the individual teacher — not the whole school system, but the specific skills and habits one teacher can build to lead with more resilience.

Participants work through communication strategies, leadership skills and student-support techniques, mapped against PERMA’s five components rather than treated as a loose grab-bag of tips — active listening and de-escalation sit under Relationships, goal-setting under Accomplishment, and so on.

What changes by Friday isn’t the school around a participant — it’s their own working model for staying resilient inside it, built from five components they can name and apply individually, not a vague sense of having done a wellbeing week.

Methodology

Interactive, Not Lecture-Based

Each topic (communication, leadership, student support) is explored through interactive exercises, role-plays and group discussion — short theoretical framing only.

Real-Scenario Simulations

Role-playing exercises let you practise handling real classroom-management scenarios before you try them at school.

Personal Action Plan

The course ends with a personal action plan, built through reflective practice and self-evaluation, for continued professional development.

What you'll take home

Communicate more effectively with students — active listening, constructive feedback, and confident verbal and non-verbal communication.

Lead and motivate your classroom — apply leadership and motivation strategies that create a positive, engaged learning environment.

Tailor your support to diverse student profiles, using strategies matched to individual needs.

Manage challenging classroom situations with confidence, using tested behaviour-management and de-escalation techniques.

Reflect on and continuously improve your own teaching practice through structured self-evaluation.

Daily programme

Introduction to the course and participants
Martin Seligman's PERMA model — Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Accomplishment — and how it structures this week
Ice-breaking activities for effective and positive interaction
Presentation of the schools of the participants

Warm-up: quick team-building activity to reconnect the group
Importance of effective verbal and non-verbal communication — PERMA's Relationships component in practice
Techniques for active listening
Providing constructive feedback to students
Interactive exercises and role-plays to practice communication skills

Motivating and guiding students — PERMA's Engagement and Accomplishment components in practice
Creating a positive classroom environment
Promoting student engagement and participation
Group activities and discussions on effective leadership strategies

Sharing experiences and knowledge with educators from different cultural backgrounds
Collaborative lesson planning and group projects
Strategies for effective classroom management and handling challenging situations
Simulations and role-playing exercises for managing difficult scenarios
Reflective practice, self-evaluation and building a personal action plan

Course evaluation: discussing and assessing acquired competencies, feedback on content and delivery
Group discussions and reflections on the learning journey
Sharing resources, materials and best practices; exchanging contact information for future collaboration
Issuing course participation certificates

Please note: sessions run from 09:30 to 15:00, Monday to Friday, with a break for lunch. Timings can shift a little to suit the venue and the group. If you'd like a specific topic covered, let us know when you apply — the confirmed day-by-day schedule is sent to registered participants ahead of the course.

Certificate: we issue the Certificate of Attendance to everyone who's present for at least 80% of the course — tracked with the daily sign-in sheet (see Certificate & assessment).

Equipment: a few of our courses ask participants to bring a laptop — check the day-by-day programme above, or ask us if you're not sure.

Need a formal invoice or proforma for your school's records? Ask us — we issue official invoices with the participant's name and course details.

Certificate & assessment

This is a Certificate of Attendance, not an exam-based qualification — recognition comes from completing the structured programme, not from passing a test. The real, lasting value is in the competencies listed above under What you'll take home.

Erasmus Mobility Academy

Certificate of Attendance

Soft Skills for Strong Teachers and Positive Schools · 5 days · 25 hrs

+ Europass Mobility document

Type your name above — clearly marked "SAMPLE" in the PDF, not an official document.

The real certificate is signed by your trainer and EMA's authorised signatory. Your own signature isn't on this document — it's captured separately, on the Europass Mobility document.

Need to verify a real certificate? Check it online using the serial number and participant's full name, or contact us directly — [email protected], OID E10304561.

Attendance

Tracked using a sign-in sheet with one signature per participant per day (paper or digital). This record is used to issue your Certificate of Attendance and Europass Mobility document. View sign-in sheet (PDF)

Output

Every participant leaves with a completed Dissemination & School Impact Plan — a step-by-step template for applying the course back at your school (see below).

Feedback

An end-of-course evaluation form is sent to every participant after the course ends — a chance to reflect on what you've learned and how you'll apply it, and it helps us keep improving the course for future participants.

Your paperwork

Keep your travel tickets, boarding passes and (if you used green travel) any related receipts — your school or National Agency may ask for these for their own Erasmus+ reporting.

Practical information

Registration & documents

Not sure how registering works or what paperwork is involved? See our full Registration & Documents guide — from applying to your Certificate of Attendance, in one place.

Invitation letter

Need a formal invitation letter for your school or embassy? Request one — we send it within 2 business days. See a sample (PDF).

Learning Agreement

Prepared by our staff and sent to you and your school once your registration form is submitted — see what it looks like. See a sample (PDF).

Billing & invoicing

We issue official invoices/proformas with the participant's name and course details — ask us. Payment is due in full by bank transfer before the course start date. See a sample (PDF).

Airport transfer

Guidance on getting from the nearest airport to the venue is included in your welcome information.

Accommodation

We can recommend partner hotels close to the venue in the host city — ask us when you apply.

For your school / proposal

School impact

After completing this Teacher Training & Classroom Management course, the participating staff member can transfer outcomes directly to their school: a short briefing for colleagues sharing the key takeaways, applying relevant tools or strategies from the programme in their own role, and inclusion of the course materials in the school's professional development resources — turning one person's mobility into a wider institutional gain that supports the school's European Development Plan. Use the Dissemination & School Impact Plan below to fill in your own — it saves as you go and can generate a one-page summary for your coordinator too.

Prefer a blank, course-independent version of this template? Get it here →

After the course

Participants will receive their certificates (Certificate of Attendance + Europass).

Participants will complete a general course evaluation and event survey.

Participants will receive course materials, videos, photos, and PDF documents in both digital and print formats.

Follow-up support: an email group is created for idea exchange, self-evaluation materials are provided, and participants receive a follow-up check-in after 3 months to discuss progress on applying their soft-skills action plan in their schools.

Frequently asked

This course is an eligible training activity under Erasmus+ Key Action 1 (School Education Mobility) — the course fee, travel and subsistence fall within the eligible cost categories. Whether it is covered depends on your own project's approved grant agreement and your National Agency's rules; we provide all the invoices, attendance records and certificates your National Agency requires for reporting.

B1 is enough — you do not need to be fluent. Trainers speak slowly and plainly, every session is built around doing something rather than sitting and listening, and groups are mixed by nationality so people help each other out. A rough test: if you could follow a staff meeting held in English and ask a question in it, you will be fine here.

Absolutely — group bookings of 3+ from one school receive priority placement, and we can schedule a dedicated session for groups of 12 or more.

Our courses run on request at our centres in Antalya, İstanbul, İzmir, Mersin, Budapest, Bremen and Rome. Tell us your preferred city and dates and we will arrange a session.

Tuition, all course materials, both certificates (attendance + Europass Mobility) and a half-day guided tour of the host city with a local guide. Flights, accommodation and travel insurance are booked separately — we send a vetted hotel list.

You can move to any later session free of charge. Cancellations made 30+ days before the start date receive a full refund; a reduced refund applies closer to the date — see our full Cancellation & Refund Policy for the exact schedule.