TEACHER TRAINING

ADULT TEACHERS, BACADUATES AND HERITAGE MEDIATORS (September to June)
Duration: 1 to 4 days (boarding or day school*)

Are you a teacher interested in heritage and its professions? This module is for you. By offering you training courses tailored to your prerequisites and knowledge, it creates a dynamic that aims to open you up to the techniques and know-how of architectural heritage and enable you to transfer these skills to your school subjects.

These courses are given by specialist craftsmen and an educational facilitator who provide the keys to understanding the built heritage and its restoration. Some are part of the IFC programme(www.ifc.cfwb.be), others can be tailor-made on request.

Subjects covered: heritage and its trades, site history, restoration and redevelopment, specific teaching tools, etc.

Type of activities: workshop (cement-rockwork, brasswork, threshing, dry-stone walling, gilding, imitation materials, carpentry, mosaics, stone-cutting, stained glass, carpentry, blacksmithing, sgraffito, cobwork), etc.

Target group: in-service teachers from basic and ordinary secondary education (all options and all networks combined) Number of trainees : 5 participants minimum.

*70-bed accommodation, with catering facilities, is available for classes taking part in activities over several days, allowing them to get to grips with the site and the learning process.

Business Area

Conservation-Restoration of Cultural Heritage,Decoration - Interior design,Glass crafts,Metal crafts,Stone crafts,Wood and furniture crafts

Proposed by

La Paix-Dieu - Centre des métiers du patrimoine

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