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Teacher Training & Classroom Management Planned session

Soft Skills for Strong Teachers

What keeps a teacher going through a hard year? This week practises communication, feedback and de-escalation skills and asks what each one does for you as well as for your students, with Seligman's PERMA model of wellbeing as the lens.

Session dates6–10 Sep 2027
LocationEma İstanbul
Duration5 days
FundingErasmus+ eligible

About this course

What keeps a teacher going through a hard year? This week uses positive psychology to look at that question through everyday classroom skills. Martin Seligman’s PERMA model breaks wellbeing into five components: Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning and Accomplishment. PERMA is a theory of wellbeing, not a list of skills, so this week uses it…

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.

Trainer-Prepared Scenarios

Role-plays use scenarios prepared from common classroom situations; nobody is asked to replay an incident from their own school.

Personal Action Plan

The course ends with a personal plan built on the five PERMA components, shared with colleagues in small groups.

What you'll take home

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

Motivate your classroom and set small goals with students, matching your feedback to different student profiles.

Handle challenging classroom situations with confidence, using practical de-escalation steps you have rehearsed in role-play.

Reflect on your own reactions and on why you teach, using the five PERMA components as a lens.

Leave with a personal plan for continued professional development, with one small action for each component.

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Where our participants come from

Aggregated across all EMA courses, not specific to this session.

Romanian 22%
Polish 16%
Lithuanian 9%
Portuguese 8%
Bulgarian 7%

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