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DIARY OF A COMENIUS ASSISTANT
When teaching goes beyond national boundaries
Laura Pipponzi
About Comenius:
'We are all citizens of one world.'
Comenius is part of the Lifelong Learning Programme (or LLP): it brings the European Commission’s various educational and training initiatives together under a single umbrella.
Mobility Individual pupil mobility In-service training of staff grants Assistantship grants for student teachers
Parnerships Multilateral projects
Schools partnerships Regio partnerships eTwinning
The Comenius Programme funds several types of actions related to school education:
Encourage language learning and better teaching techniques and practices
Enhance the quality and European dimension of teacher training
Improve and increase the mobility of pupils and educational staff across the EU
Enhance and increase partnerships between schools in different EU Member States
Goals:
Comenius aims to:
Mobility of individualsThe Comenius Assistantship
Grants enable future teachers to spend 3 to 10 months in a school abroad and to assist in teaching.
Mobility of individualsThe Comenius Assistantship 1) helps to improve language skills of
pupils at the host school
2) can increase both their motivation to learn languages and their interest in the assistant's country and culture...
My experience as a Comenius Assistant
An Italian
as English teacher assistant in
Catalonia…
My COMENIUS experience
School: Eladi Homs - Primary 4, 5 and 6 classes
Vehicular language: Catalan Second language: Spanish Foreign language: English
My COMENIUS experience
1. Improve English
English corner
My COMENIUS experience
2. The English language helps discovering another culture
BUT HOW?
2.1 Cooking show: How to make pizza
2.2 Italian traditions
2.3 English theatre play: Pinocchio
2.4 Pub quiz about Italy
My COMENIUS experience
3. Other activities
Personal interview for the school radio Italian class at the break time Involvement in school festivities
workshops
Useful links: The Lifelong Learning Programme
http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-programme
Comenius English Activities in the school http://sites.google.com/site/eladihomsenglish/2010
Personal blog: “Diario di bordo di un assistente Comenius”
http://diarioassistentecomenius.blogspot.com
Laura Pipponzi
THANKS
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