Soft Skills for Teaching Techniques

The course’s main goal is to develop and acquire effective soft skills. The course focuses on improving techniques and practical activities that teachers can use in a classroom context, whilst expanding their ideas so they can teach engaging and informative lessons. The course aims to assist teachers of all subjects and to clarify their roles in encouraging students to become confident users of their language, in reading, writing and talking.

Learning outcomes:

• • Develop soft skills in order to overcome communication barriers and to support their managing role; 

  • Provide tools for more effective communication and to motivate different personality types;

  • Understand group dynamics;

  • Enable the participants to understand learners & colleagues’ needs;

  • Acquire knowledge and tips related to delivering effective public speeches (how to structure and plan effectively a speech), communication skills and learning styles;

  • Provide practical tools for identifying and changing unsupportive behaviours;

  • Enhance communicative competence in English.

  • Increase confidence in speaking publicly: articulate clear questions and ideas in class discussion;

  • Transfer and share core values, experiences and effective teaching practices with other teachers and colleagues;

  • Provide teachers with an insight into Porto and Portuguese culture and heritage.