Erasmus+ Tramore Road Campus

Courses
Erasmus+ supports the professional development of staff working in vocational education and training (VET) through training periods abroad. Tramore Road Campus organises and facilitates our teachers attend training courses in Europe. These courses offer our staff a the opportunity to experience European culture, socialize and share ideas with European colleagues in education and bring back valuable learning experiences and new pedagogical approaches to learning to our college.

"Many thanks for the wonderful opportunity. We learned a lot and met some amazing European colleagues and shared ideas and work strategies with them."

Siobhan Daly

Career Guidance teacher Siobhan Daly and Karen McGrath from Support Services attended a one week course on "Unlocking the Coach Within: Transforming Classroom Dynamics" in Bologna, Italy. Funding was provided by the EU Erasmus+ programme.

Central to coaching is the process of inspiring others to become their optimal selves. Essential to this process is the skill of setting SMART goals—specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound. Participants were tasked with formulating such goals for themselves, creating a roadmap to personal and professional growth.

The course underscored the potency of questioning as a catalyst for deep thinking, self-reflection, and constructive responses. This is why during the course the participants explored the concept of formulating learning-focused questions by starting with an invitation to engage, proposing a content to think about and underlining a cognitive focus for thinking and elaborating.

This training week allowed the participants to share their common experiences and to learn from their different cultural backgrounds, while also improving their coaching skills and learning how to apply them in their classrooms. It served as a transformative journey, equipping educators to effectively integrate coaching methodologies, fostering enriched learning environments.

Teachers Siobhan McCarthy and Rebecca Perrott attended a course on new technologies, apps and social media in the classroom which took place in Tenerife

The general aim of this course was to foster excellence in education by empowering education staff to integrate new technologies and social media into teaching and education. This course is a great and effective way to discover in a safe, friendly and supportive environment the best apps, web solutions and social platforms for teaching and student learning.

Siobhan & Rebecca work on maintaining the Tramore Road Campus social media presence and found the learning beneficial to integrating social media and using apps and technologies in the classroom while also sharing these insights with staff on return from the course.