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The workshop highlights AI’s growing role in education emphasizing its ability to enhance learning and teacher-student interaction. AI enables personalized and effective education making it crucial for teachers to integrate these technologies into their practices. This two-day training equips participants with essential AI skills. The first day focuses on ChatGPT as a tool for designing interactive and customized learning experiences. The second day explores various AI applications and their educational uses. Teachers will engage in hands-on activities experimenting with AI tools to create learning resources and plan interactive classroom sessions.

The training program focuses on empowering trainees to design student-cantered learning aligned with 21st-century needs. It highlights the importance of assessment in improving teaching and learning, exploring various assessment strategies and tools. Trainees will learn to plan assessments that align with objectives and gather authentic evidence of learning. The program emphasizes practical, hands-on activities, including case studies and group discussions, encouraging critical thinking and peer knowledge sharing. Through these activities, trainees will reflect on and develop professional practices while using assessment results to enhance learning outcomes.

This training workshop has been designed to meet teachers’ needs in light of the transformations taking place in the learning and teaching process where teaching and learning occurs through engaging activities. Learners should become more active in the teaching and learning process as they are responsible for constructing their knowledge, developing their skills, reflecting on their learning continuously and processing new information. Therefore the activities in this workshop are designed to motivate participants to find and elicit the meaning of active learning, its importance and different effective active learning strategies and techniques by engaging them in interactive activities.

This two-day training workshop highlights the value of cooperative learning in fostering students' active participation and skill development. On the first day, trainees learn the fundamentals of cooperative learning and its essential elements to aid in effective lesson planning. The second day focuses on various cooperative learning strategies, their implementation, and the roles of both teachers and students. Participants will analyse educational scenarios, learn how to evaluate cooperative learning, and apply their new knowledge to design a comprehensive cooperative learning lesson. This workshop prepares educators to create engaging, skill-building learning environments.

This workshop equips educators to integrate global citizenship into teaching. Participants explore its relationship with national citizenship and how values such as intercultural understanding, social responsibility, respect for diversity, ethics, and sustainability can be fostered. The course introduces explicit and implicit approaches, including inquiry, case studies, and project-based learning. Teachers learn to design learning outcomes, assess values using rating tools, and create authentic learning linked to real contexts. The workshop also highlights the teacher’s role in modelling empathy and civic responsibility. By the end, participants will be able to help students contribute positively to their communities and the wider world.

The workshop, inspired by John Dewey's philosophy of inquiry-based learning, focuses on empowering trainees to create dynamic learning environments centred on student curiosity and responsibility. Participants will plan, design, and implement inquiry-based activities through real-life experiences, gaining insight into the significance and features of this approach. The workshop emphasizes the roles of both teachers and students and explores supportive strategies to foster active participation and differentiation in the classroom. Trainees will collaborate with the trainer to share ideas and reflections while engaging in interactive methodologies, including cooperative group work, problem-solving, and critical thinking, to enhance their professional practices.

Kindergarten aims to properly prepare children for primary education, supporting their holistic development and enabling them to acquire new skills and experiences. Children are given complete freedom to engage in activities, explore their abilities, using the latest educational strategies and best practices. Learning Through Play is an effective approach in this stage, which is why early childhood educators strive to adopt this method and explore ways to create games that enhance learning. Therefore, this workshop aims to introduce participants to the concept of learning through play and its importance in developing children's life skills, which contribute to their comprehensive growth.

This workshop emphasizes the significance of project-based learning (PBL) in connecting education with real-life applications amidst the rapid changes of the 21st century. It aims to raise participants' awareness of PBL's role in enhancing students' higher order thinking skills, enabling them to address real-world challenges within a knowledge. PBL fosters student engagement, interaction, and effective knowledge application. The workshop positions teachers as educational designers, equipping participants with tools and techniques to manage PBL and create environments that promote creativity, innovation, and critical thinking. It also underscores the importance of community involvement in enriching students' understanding of PBL and real-life problem-solving.