This 5-day intensive face-to-face course offers participants a unique opportunity to explore what the concept of authenticity in education means as well as explore techniques to help teachers be more themselves in the classroom.  Teacher authenticity affects their relationship with students, deepens their student-centeredness, and influences their choice of learning materials. Higher levels of authenticity will change the way classroom management and decision-making are done, deepen humanistic principles, and bring other goals into the classroom besides language learning and development; a good example is building understanding and respect for other cultures.

Authenticity means bringing the principle of 'here and now' into the classroom, or transferring some of the responsibility for the teaching process and classroom management to the students. Authenticity forces (in a good sense) students to go further, encouraging them to talk and express themselves, to think about what and why they are learning, and how they intend to develop.  This leads to more effective learning strategies which are all the more valuable because students get to them by themselves.

On the course we'll prepare sample assignments, practical ideas, and practice exercises for several areas related to authenticity. This includes demonstrating how to work with authentic texts from media and information sources, how and when to have students engage critical thinking and skepticism, how to help students choose the right information sources, and how to work with images in ways that go beyond simply describing them - a method for learning and developing vocabulary.

At the end of the course you will receive the Certificate of Attendance and Europass Mobility document, or any other document your organisation/school requires to submit for applying Erasmus+ programme.