3.1 Who?
3.2 Why?
3.3 What?
3.4 How?
3.5 The evaluation
3.6 Final checklist
3.7 Lessons learnt
3.8 Models for timetabling
3.9 Sample questionnaire

3. Planning
Intercultural Communication Workshops 

(Aina Kačkere, Ildikó Lázár, Gabriela S. Matei) 

This chapter is meant to help the teacher or trainer to plan and organize intercultural communication workshops and/or courses. Our recommendations are based both on the theory described in the Theoretical Background chapter and on the practical experiences we gained by holding workshops and courses in our own contexts in the many countries we come from and by facilitating National Training Events (NTEs) during the ICCinTE project of the second medium-term programme of activities of the European Centre for Modern languages (see Central Workshop Report and National Training Event Reports). The chapter is organized according to the most important questions a teacher or trainer has to reflect on before designing a workshop or course: who?, why?, what? and how?

While planning and running intercultural communication workshops and courses, it is very important to keep in mind that the realities within the European countries are different. This means that all the ideas, tasks and activities suggested here should be adapted to the participants' needs and their particular context. The success of the workshop or course will to a certain extent depend on how well you are able to use the participants' personal experience, feelings, attitudes, skills and knowledge. You as the trainer, facilitator or teacher will probably be concerned with the following questions:

3.1 Who? Target audience
3.2 Why? Goals, objectives, needs
3.3 What? Essential content areas to be covered
3.4 How? Methods, working modes and activity types
3.5 The evaluation of your training sessions
3.6 Final checklist before you start teaching
3.7 Lessons learnt from organizing intercultural workshops within the ICCinTE project of the ECML
3.8 Models for the timetabling of workshops
3.9 Sample pre-workshop questionnaire