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The Global Citizenship Curriculum (PR1) laid the pedagogical and methodological groundwork necessary to activate the CoDesignLabs (PR2). The coherence between these two phases ensured that teachers were not only trained in innovative practices but were also able to put them into action by involving students in a real, participatory, and transformative educational process.
Description
A central element of Speak&Act’s innovative approach is the creation and implementation of CoDesignLabs, collaborative laboratories where teachers and students jointly co-create Learning Scenarios for Citizenship Education.
Key characteristics of the CoDesignLabs:
Active Student Involvement: Students are not passive recipients but co-creators of educational content, participating in shared decision-making about how Citizenship Education is taught.
Cross-curricular Approach: Learning Scenarios are developed to integrate topics of global citizenship (human rights, democracy, sustainability) into various subjects such as History, Languages, Sciences, and Literature.
Development of Pattern Recognition and Critical Thinking: Students analyse global issues and identify interdisciplinary connections with their everyday subjects, building soft skills like pattern recognition, critical thinking, autonomy, and teamwork.
Empowerment through Public Speaking: Students practice selecting the most appropriate Public Speaking style (debate, TED Talk, storytelling, etc.) to communicate their findings, enhancing their expressive and civic competences.
Dpeak&Act Learning Scenarios.pdfThe LEarning Scenarios
The LEarning Scenarios
The concept of Learning Scenario adopted in the Speak&Act project derives from and has been significantly adapted from the concept developed in the European project iTEC (Innovative Technologies for an Engaging Classroom).
Within the iTEC project, a Learning Scenario is described as a tool for planning innovative learning experiences that can integrate new teaching methodologies and respond to emerging social and technological trends. The Learning Scenarios focus not only on content, but also on the learning environment, resources, roles of students and teachers, and how to interact
In the Speak&Act CoDesign Lab students and teachers collaborate to co-design Learning Scenarios, starting from Global Citizenship Education themes; the process requires students to recognize connections between different school subjects (pattern recognition) and select methods of Public Speaking (such as debate, TED Talk or podcast) to communicate content; students develop transversal skills: critical thinking, teamwork, autonomy, project management and communication skills.
The guidelines to the implEmentation of Co-design Labs
The guidelines to the implEmentation of Co-design Labs
These guidelines, developed as part of the Erasmus+ project Speak&Act: Public Speaking for Global Citizenship, provide a practical framework for implementing Co-Design Labs in secondary schools. Co-Design Labs are collaborative learning environments where teachers and students co-create interdisciplinary Learning Scenarios that integrate Citizenship Education topics with school subjects using Public Speaking methodologies.
The document outlines the two-phase structure of the project: first, a teacher training curriculum to build skills in global citizenship and public speaking; second, the creation of Co-Design Labs where students apply these tools in designing innovative, cross-curricular lessons. The guidelines include step-by-step instructions for forming lab groups, selecting topics, matching public speaking formats (e.g. debates, TED-style talks, storytelling), developing lesson plans, and evaluating both teacher and student participation.
Available in five languages and licensed under Creative Commons, these guidelines support inclusive, participatory teaching practices that empower students as active citizens and communicators.
Guidelines to the implementation of Co-Design Labs with high school students.docx.pdfProject result 1
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