Icebreakers in Educational Activities – facilitators: Adina and Ilona


Description.The training was designed for our fellow teachers and counsellours from schools of all types and all levels from Drobeta Turnu Severin as a combination of non-formal and formal activities requiring all the participants’active involvement. They developed skills on areas such as: communication, collaboration, strategic planning and decision making. The training consisted in two-full day structured learning sessions which aimed using non-formal activities to “break the ice”, reduce or increase the level of students’ energy in a formal educational activity. The training had also in-depth coverage of the issues related to noise, class management, time or financials. The analyzing process was done by the participants themselves conducted by the facilitators, who identified the advantages and the disadvantages of the methods, techniques and in instruments we presented. As results, we consider: development of interpersonal communication, diminution of inhibition, stimulation of creativity, memory and attention, active participation.

Training aim – the improvement of the teachers and counselors’ capacity to use non-formal methods, techniques and instruments in formal educational environment.
Training objectives:
-to facilitate the formal educational process based on non-formal learning methods techniques and instruments
-to apply non-formal methods, techniques and instruments in the formal educational process
          
Duration, period and location
It was a two- day training course organized in two different periods (April and October), with different participants. The location were also different, we organized the training courses both in a formal framework (low secondary school) and non-formal as well (ARCS Youth Center).

Participants’ descriptions
The participants were fellow teachers and counselors working in formal educational system, from kindergarten to high school. The procedure for selection of the participants was an open call. The two training courses comprised 40 participants who used their new-gained skills with their students.

Results: development of communication, stimulation of creativity and attention, decreasing of inhibition, socialization, raise of self-esteem, improvement of knowledge over the use of non-formal education.