SLE - Successful Learning Environments with Positive Communication, Teambuilding and Leadership Strategies

With this project the BG/BRG Judenburg, an academic high school for students aged 10 -18, reacts to the latest changes in the Austrian educational system and to school internal changes at the BG/BRG Judenburg. The administration of the BG/BRG Judenburg initiated this two year project in order to offer its teachers further high quality international training in the fields of communication, teambuilding and leadership. Within the two years' lifetime of this project 15 teachers/employees will have the opportunity to participate in several training courses and job-shadowing sessions based on teaching and communication techniques as well as teambuilding and leaderhip skills.

All trainings will be focused on three main areas:

1.) TEAMBUILDING

2.) LEADERSHIP

3.) COMMUNICATION

In these courses teachers acquire methods, techniques and didactic material for activities that are adaptable for a wide range of lower and higher grade students and for different teaching situations. But not only the acquisition of new communication methods, leading techniques and skills play an important role. It is also the exchange of experiences and the reflection on teaching behavior between teachers of different European countries that will bring the participation in this courses along.

After the trainings teachers will inform other teachers in internal school meetings about the contents of the courses and pass on material an information about the course. Futhermore, gained methodological and didactic knowledge will also be passed on to other language teachers in order to provide them with new input and ideas of how to teach.

This project will lead to:

- an enormous improvement of staff competences in the field of communication, teambuilding and leadership

- an exploration and introduction of new curriculum relevant teaching aspects and authentic topics in class

- a teachers' reflection on the organization of teaching and cooperation with other teachers guided by experts

- an implementation of modern communication methods and leading and teambuilding techniques in class and in cooperation with colleagues

- widen teachers' social and cultural horizions and their intercultural skills, which will have an impact on their teaching performance in Austria

- widen teachers professional and methodological horizons in order to offer students, parents and all other educational stakeholders with optimal

communication, teambuiliding and leadership structures at the BG/BRG Judenburg

Erasmus+ and International Projects at the

BG/BRG Judenburg