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Teach the EU through Collaborative and Student-Centred Learning

Plan engaging lessons on the EU with the 4Cs, task- and project-based learning and collaborative strategies.

About 3 hours

6 lessons

Self-paced

Free

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A self-paced course for teachers of all subjects who want to teach the European Union through active methods: the 4Cs, task- and project-based learning, motivating warm-ups and collaborative strategies, with EU-themed examples and resources for your lesson plans.

What you will learn

  • Understand the 4Cs (communication, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking) and use them to structure student-centred lesson plans on EU topics
  • Tell task-based and project-based learning apart, and design tasks and projects that help students explore the EU
  • Keep motivation high with warm-up activities that build the values and skills of European democratic culture
  • Compare active and collaborative learning, and add inquiry-, problem- and place-based learning to your teaching strategies

About this course

Understanding how the European Union works helps students make sense of complex issues such as migration and climate change, and grow into conscious European citizens. In class, however, the EU can easily feel abstract. Student-centred and collaborative methods change that: they give students ownership of their learning, ask them to work together towards a shared goal and turn EU content into tasks, projects and discussions.

This course shows you how. Each topic defines one or more approaches, compares them and suggests activities and resources on EU topics, from the 4Cs and lesson planning to TBL and PBL, warm-ups on democratic culture and further strategies such as inquiry-, problem- and place-based learning. A case study on the workshops of the Historical Archives of the European Union shows active and collaborative learning in practice. By the end, you will have a full set of strategies to choose from, depending on your students and your context.

Course content

6 lessons · about 3 hours

The course is organised in four topics. Each topic combines short texts and videos with a conclusion, a reflection activity and a short quiz to check your learning before you move on. The first topic also includes ready-to-use resources, such as a needs analysis template, a lesson plan template and an EU negotiation game.

  • 20% Video Short lessons with your trainer
  • 25% Exercises Quizzes and activities to try
  • 55% Slides Presentations and readings
  1. 1 Welcome to the Course! 1 topicLocked
  2. 2 1. Introduction to the 4Cs and the Student-Centered Methodology 9 topicsLocked
  3. 3 2. Teaching the EU through TBL and PBL 5 topicsLocked
  4. 4 3. Creating Appealing Warm up Activities to Potentialize Students’ Motivation 4 topicsLocked
  5. 5 4. Summing up Active and Collaborative Learning Strategies 5 topicsLocked
  6. 6 Congratulations! 1 topicLocked
  7. Quiz Final Quiz

The lessons open once you are enrolled.

Your trainer

Roberta Begliomini

Roberta Begliomini

Teacher trainer in Florence

Roberta, known to her students as Roby, trains teachers in Florence on English, CLIL and classroom management. She brings to her courses over 15 years of experience in education, a background in European studies and a career in project management and business development across Europe and Latin America.

  • Master’s degree in European Studies, Maastricht University
  • Degree in International Relations, Ibero-American University, Brazil
  • IELTS and TEFL certified, fluent in Portuguese, English, Italian and Spanish
  • Teacher trainer at Europass since 2020

Created within EU-TEAM – European Teachers on the Move, a project co-funded by the European Union.

Your certificate

Complete all the lessons and your certificate of completion is generated automatically, ready to download as a PDF.

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