This document outlines the objectives and agenda for a joint staff training event on innovative pedagogies for teaching cultural heritage. The training will discuss creative ways to make cultural heritage appealing for primary students, exchange good practices for formal and informal lessons, and find methods to incorporate cultural heritage across subjects. Participants will discuss how to design lessons for multicultural classrooms and teach science through a culturally informed lens. The document explores how cultural heritage can be addressed in current practices and curricula based on EU definitions, and presents suggestions for developing culturally informed lesson plans that engage with the past, present and future of cultural heritage.

1. INNOVATIVE PEDAGOGIES IN
CULTURAL HERITAGE
Cultural Heritage: Cherishing the Past, Building the Future
(2018-1-CY01-ΚΑ229-046852)
JOINT STAFFTRAINING EVENT
Venice, Italy | 8-10 November 2018

2. TRAINING OBJECTIVES
 Discuss and formulate creative and engaging ways for teaching cultural heritage and
making it appealing to primary school pupils.
 Exchange knowledge and good practices on formal and informal lessons that promote
cultural discovery and exploration.
 Find ways to incorporate and address questions of cultural heritage across the range of
primary education subjects.
 Decide on improved pedagogies that meet the needs of increasingly multicultural
classrooms.
 Formulate concrete suggestions to promote respectful intercultural dialogue among
young learners.
 Find methods for teaching science (particularly the topics of natural resources and
environmental conservation) through a culturally informed perspective.

3. CULTURAL HERITAGE IN OUR CURRENT
EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES
 Do national curricula incorporate cultural heritage?
 What subjects/ lessons address issues of cultural heritage the most?
 Do you have specific lessons on cultural heritage?
How can we incorporate cultural heritage in our
lessons without having a special lesson on cultural
heritage?

4. THE EU DEFINITION OF CULTURAL
HERITAGE
 FOUR PARAMETERS
 Tangible
 Intangible
 Digital
 Natural
 Do you agree with this categorization? Is everything addressed? Is
anything surprising? Is anything left out?
Which of these parameters do your current curricula
address the most?

5. THE PAST-PRESENT-FUTURE DIMENSION
OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
 PAST – learning about, cherishing, respecting our heritage.
 PRESENT –recognizing and interacting cultural heritage in our everyday
lives.
 FUTURE – actively contributing to the preservation and evolution of
cultural heritage for the future.
 Is cultural heritage something to be respected, cherished and admired
from a distance OR something to be experienced and developed?
How can we interact with cultural heritage in the
present and develop it for the future while being
respectful to the past?

6. MULTICULTURALISM
 What does it mean for a classroom to be multicultural?
 Is your student body multicultural?
 Do your lessons reflect and promote a multicultural dimension?
 When addressing cultural heritage in your classrooms (for example, a
lesson on traditions), do you have a national or multicultural perspective?
How can multiculturalism become an integral part of
our lessons?

7. CULTURAL HERITAGE IN SCIENCE
LESSONS
 The EU emphasizes the incorporation of a culturally informed perspective
in science and technology lessons.
 What is a culturally informed perspective?
 How can issues of environmental conservation be incorporated in your
existing lesson plans?
 Do your curricula include indigenous species and Natura 2000 sites?
How do cultural values, beliefs, and behaviours
influence the way science and technology are
understood?

8. SUGGESTIONS FOR INCORPORATING
CULTURAL HERITAGE IN LESSON PLANS AND
FOR CULTURALLY INFORMED LESSONS:

9. SAMPLE FOR A CULTURALLY INFORMED
LESSON PLAN
 Subject:
 Topic:
 Learning Objectives:
 Starter/ Introduction:
 Activities:
 Conclusion/ Plenary:
 Assignments/ Next Steps:
 Issues of cultural heritage incorporated in the lesson: