facilitators: Marta, Irmina and Justyna

2.        Brief description of the training
      The training consisted of two meetings. The first meeting was to introduce theoretical issues concerning the understanding of non-formal education as well as tasks and integration exercises, focusing on team-oriented work and creative thinking.
      The second meeting concerned the practical work and included a variety of issues ranging from integration activities by raising energy group games, the team building task, communication exercises, developing creative thinking exercises, dances with singing (singing with elements of movements) to funny games. All tasks and exercises were thoroughly discussed and together with the participants modified and adapted to the objective of the program and the needs of children learning in primary school.
3.        Purpose of training
      The principal goal of the following workshop (project) was to familiarize the participants with the methods of non-formal education for the introduction and use of methods, forms and techniques of non-formal education in the formal school educational system implemented in the school.
4.        The specific objectives
·      Finding and indicating the possibilities of using the techniques and methods of non-formal education while working with children in kindergarten and when working with beginning classes pupils.
·      Searching for new ideas, games and tasks that can be used in daily work with pupils.
·      Showing attractive opportunities and ways to enrich their classes through non-formal education methods.
·      Providing with opportunities to experience something new, to know and to integrate with one another.
·      Showing the ability to influence methods of non-formal education on the interactions between the teacher and students as well as among students.
5.        Duration, term and location
      The workshop lasted two days.
The first training was held on 04.06.2014. from 16.00 to 20.00 in Stepnica in the Municipal Cultural Centre.
The second training was held on 08.06.2014 r. from14.00 to 20.00 in Czarnocin in Active Recreation School "Frajda".
6.        Description of the participants
      The run workshops were attended by 12 female teachers from Konstanty Maciejerowicz Secondary School and Kindergarten in Stepnica. Participants of the project were teachers working in teaching preliminary in grades 1-3 and in the pre-school educational system.
      Teachers participating in the project were people wanting to introduce in their work innovative education methods,  they were involved in participating in the project, open to the modern and creative ways of working with students. Activities participants sought to gain new knowledge, learn new methods, techniques and forms of teaching that would allow them to use more efficient ways of delivering the curriculum.  The teachers were willing to raise their qualifications, which  they could achieve through participation in the implemented project.
1.        Results and effects of training
                             
The project was proposed and presented to the participants together with opportunities to use the methods, techniques and the tools for non-formal teaching in the process of formal education in working with children in school and kindergarten.
The measurable outcome and effect of  the training is to highlight the opportunity to purchase and the development of social skills through the introduction of teaching methods and techniques of non-formal education to the formal one. This allows the teachers involved in the project to enrich, diversify and expand their workshop.
With regard to the methods and techniques of non-formal teaching, the participants have broadened their knowledge of how to develop communicative competence, which in particular can help them resolve conflicts and interpret the patterns of their pupils behavior.
Another effect of the conducted training was the acquisition of additional skills by allowing the teachers to plan lessons in a team using appropriate methods, techniques and forms, thanks to which they can take into account the different emotional pupils states while accomplishing planned tasks.
The use of non-formal educational methods and analysis as well as the observation of pupils behavior may also help in a more precise drawing conclusions based on theoretical knowledge of pedagogy as well as it can also help create a climate of mutual understanding and trust in the group.
In addition, it is worth noting that current training aroused among participants the desire of creativity, improving their knowledge, further education and self-improvement.