Active and creative teaching methods for teachers
Re-energise your teaching with active learning, gamification and project-based methods, a hands-on Erasmus+ week in Bordeaux focused on engagement that lasts.
Plan your Erasmus mobilityActive and creative teaching methods for teachers · Part of our Erasmus+ teacher training courses in Bordeaux
Keeping students genuinely engaged is harder than ever. If you feel your lessons could be more active and memorable but you are wary of gimmicks, this course offers methods that are creative and grounded in how learning actually works.
This Erasmus+ course in Bordeaux gives you practical, transferable techniques, active learning, gamification, project- and inquiry-based learning, that you can adapt to any subject. It sits within our wider Erasmus+ teacher training courses.
Why active and creative teaching methods in the classroom?
- Boost engagement: active methods turn passive listeners into involved learners.
- Deepen learning: doing, making and solving embeds knowledge more durably than telling.
- Develop key skills: collaboration, creativity and problem-solving alongside content.
- Renew your motivation: new methods make teaching more enjoyable for you too.
What you will learn: active and creative teaching methods in practice
- Apply active-learning techniques that fit your subject and level.
- Use gamification meaningfully, motivation without gimmicks.
- Design short project- and inquiry-based sequences.
- Manage a more active classroom while keeping focus and pace.
What you will be able to do after this course
- Redesign an existing lesson using an active-learning method.
- Build a simple gamified activity aligned to a learning objective.
- Plan a short project that connects your subject to real-world tasks.
- Evaluate active learning fairly and give useful feedback.
Explore the course in detail
Objectives, content and programme
This Erasmus+ course helps you refresh your practice with active learning, project-based work and creative teaching methods that increase engagement without adding unnecessary workload.
The aim is to give you tried-and-tested methods you can adapt immediately, and the confidence to experiment in your own classroom.
By the end you will be able to design an active-learning sequence, run a short project-based task, and use gamified and creative techniques purposefully rather than for their own sake.
You will leave with a portfolio of methods and a plan for introducing them gradually with your students.
We practise what we teach: the whole week is run through active, collaborative and playful methods, so you experience each approach as a learner before adapting it as a teacher.
Each morning introduces a method, active learning, project-based learning, gamification, creativity, and each afternoon puts it to work on real lesson ideas.
Each day follows the same thread: understand, experience, design and transfer.
Monday: understanding active learning
Morning
- What makes learning active and durable
- Purposeful innovation versus gimmicks
Afternoon
- Workshop: analysing a lesson for engagement
- Build an active-learning checklist
Tuesday: project and inquiry-based learning
Morning
- Designing projects with a clear learning goal
- Structuring inquiry and cooperation
Afternoon
- Design a short project-based task
- Try it out and get peer feedback
Wednesday: gamification and motivation
Morning
- Game mechanics that support learning
- Motivation, challenge and feedback
Afternoon
- Collaborative case studies
- Adapt a lesson with low-stakes game elements
Thursday: creativity and cross-curricular work
Morning
- Creative production and cross-curricular links
- Designing environments for autonomy
Afternoon
- Hands-on workshop: redesign one of your lessons
- Collaborative review and improvement
Friday: building your innovative classroom
Morning
- Demonstrations and exchange of European practices
- Reflecting on what works across subjects
Afternoon
- Final project presentation
- Personal action plan for your school
- Course evaluation, Europass and certification
Approach, impact and practical details
What works is purposeful innovation: a clear learning goal first, then the method that serves it. Small, well-designed changes engage students far more than gadgets or novelty.
We try each method on realistic examples so you can tell quickly which ones fit your subject and your class.
You gain transferable strategies, structured collaboration, challenge-based tasks, low-stakes game mechanics and creative production, that suit a wide range of subjects and ages.
These approaches are designed to be sustainable, fitting the constraints of a normal timetable.
Many of these methods are shared on the European School Education Platform.
The mobility delivers value when innovation becomes routine and inspires your colleagues. Participants often return to run project weeks or whole-school initiatives.
This course is part of our Erasmus teacher training courses in Bordeaux, linking you with educators exploring the same methods across Europe.
We support your Learning Agreement and preparation in advance, and you follow a documented programme during the week.
Afterwards you receive your Europass Mobility certificate, an evaluation and any further documents needed for recognition by your National Agency.
Bordeaux’s creative, student-friendly atmosphere makes it a natural home for a course on active and creative teaching methods.
Well connected across Europe and rich in culture, it turns teacher mobility into an inspiring professional experience.
Target audience
Any educator wanting to refresh their practice will feel at home here: teachers, trainers, educational and career counsellors, school psychologists, headteachers, school leaders and administrative staff. They join from primary, secondary and vocational schools, adult education, training centres, higher education and NGOs, and mixed-level groups mean active methods are tried across a range of settings.
Erasmus+ funding: how it works
Any teacher, trainer, headteacher, school leader or education-organisation staff member can apply for an Erasmus+ KA1 grant, so your institution may cover travel, accommodation, meals, cultural activities and the fees of this active and creative teaching methods course through the grant.
Because the pricing is aligned with the Erasmus+ grant, you can pick the options that suit you and still remain within your funding.
Erasmus+ quality standards
Our course is aligned with the Erasmus Quality Standards: you receive a course description with its learning outcomes, the dates, the venue and the names of the provider and instructor(s).
We help you through certification and the validation of learning outcomes, staff mobility and learning agreements, the quality commitment and Europass Mobility, and can issue additional certification, reporting documents, photos and a sum-up video on request for visibility and dissemination.
Quality standards for our courses
- European values and policies
- Composition of the group and networking opportunities
- High quality teaching
- Inspiring and interactive learning
- Trustworthy, innovative and relevant content
- Use of digital tools and blended learning
- Continued learning
- Facilitating institutional impact
- Certification of learning outcomes
- Advance and complete information about the course
- Straightforward application process
- Preparation
- Transparent costs
- Changes and cancellations
- Support before, during and after the course
- Qualified staff
- Proportionate duration and schedule of the course
- Appropriate venue
- Inclusion
- Feedback and assessment
Our Erasmus+ organisational quality standards
- Practical arrangements
- Health, safety and respect of applicable regulations
- Preparation
- Monitoring and mentoring
- Support during the activity
- Evaluation and recognition of learning outcomes
- Core tasks, keeping ownership of the activities
- Integrating results of mobility activities in the organisation
- Developing capacity
- Regular updates
- Gathering and using participants’ feedback
- Sharing results within the organisation
- Sharing results with other organisations and the public
- Publicly acknowledging European Union funding
- Inclusion and diversity
- Digital education
- Active participation in the network of Erasmus organisations
- Environmental sustainability and responsibility
What is included in the course
- Help whenever needed: full-day chat support
- Erasmus+ KA1 eligible: funded through Key Action 1
- Flexible by design: simple changes with minimal restrictions
- The whole experience: from coffee breaks to cultural discoveries
- Certificate of attendance on completion
Official Erasmus+ validation
To ensure the recognition of your course for teachers, we provide all required European certification and Erasmus+ compliance documentation:
- ✓ Europass Mobility: Official recognition of your professional development and teaching skills.
- ✓ Quality Commitment: Full compliance with Erasmus+ quality standards.
- ✓ Final Certification: Official certificate of attendance with training hours.
Social & cultural programme
Your Erasmus+ teacher mobility in Bordeaux is also an opportunity to experience French culture and build connections with other European teachers.
- ✓ Welcome aperitif: Network with European colleagues in a relaxed setting.
- ✓ Guided city tour: Discover Bordeaux’s UNESCO World Heritage sites.
- ✓ Local recommendations: Explore the best markets, cafés and cultural spots.
Optional premium add-ons can be arranged on request on Saturdays (e.g. Arcachon Bay & the Dune du Pilat, or a Médoc / Saint-Émilion château; other options available according to your interest).
Erasmus+ teacher mobility in Bordeaux
Re-energise your teaching in Bordeaux
Join our Erasmus+ course and leave with active, creative methods you can use from your very next lesson.
Start my projectFrequently asked questions
Yes. It is fully KA1-fundable, so your grant can cover travel, accommodation, meals and course fees.
No. The methods, from active learning and project-based work to gamification and creativity, are low-tech and adaptable to any subject.
A certificate of attendance, a Europass Mobility certificate, and a completed Learning Agreement and evaluation.
One week in Bordeaux, in small groups of no more than 16 participants.
Teachers’ zone
Our online programmes let you maximise your learning potential and bring your new skills straight into your everyday teaching. Participants also get virtual classroom access.