Bildungsangebote für Kinder im Elementarbereich - ..
Bildungsangebote für Kinder im Elementarbereich - ein europäischer Vergleich
Start date: Jul 1, 2014,
End date: Jun 30, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
Since 2003 Helen-Keller-School in Weinheim has enabled students to go abroad for an internship during their last year of their apprenticeship to become educators.
Due to the fact that interested students attend a (mandatory) preparatory course called “International Elementary pedagogics“, it is save to apply for six “Leonardo-da-Vinci“-scholarships. This year‘s project is titled "Learning opportunities for children in elementary education - a European comparison“ and project partners are our long-term partner Vestfold Fylkeskommune in Tonsberg (Norway) and the privately owned kindergarten Alt-Wien in Vienna (Austria), which cooperates with us since 2012.
Reasons for participation:
- supporting the European initiative to promote mobility in vocational education
- in accordance with § 39 of the Baden-Wuerttemberg exam regulations: offering the chance to fulfil parts of their final year in other European countries
- putting contents of the Baden-Wuerttemberg kindergarten curriculum regarding „Educational offerings in the elementary sector“ into action
- learning and/or improving language skills in the respective national language, plus improvement of English as link language
- deepening of professionalism, subsequently leading to a higher professional standard in general
Goals, expected results and effects as well as long-term benefits:
- attainment of intercultural performance skills, including a positive long-term effect on the participant‘s (professional) personality
- deepening of professional self-confidence and assurance how to act in various professional situations
- getting to know different structural prerequisites in the partner institutions
- actively participating in the organisation of the daily routine in the partner institutions
- Experiencing and reflecting different professional personalities (based on the respective concepts)
- gaining experiences regarding the work with children, parents, colleagues, supervisors and agencies in the partner institutions
- acquisition of a basic pedagogical vocabulary in the respective national language and/or English
- getting to know the importance of bilingualism
- comparing, reflecting, presenting and spreading of gained experiences
- thus widening the willingness of other students to go abroad
- widening the acceptance of German agencies to allow their interns to go abroad for four weeks
- orientation for other colleges for social education through planned publication of internship curriculum units and „europass“-samples
Project phases:
- 7 month preparatory phase at Helen-Keller-School in Weinheim
- internship in one of the aforementioned partner institutions in May/June 2015
- evaluation phase including a closing presentation at Helen-Keller-School
A written curriculum for the internship - based on ECVET principals and instruments - will be drawn up together with each participant. The curriculum will be matched with the project partner‘s expectations in a kind of “Memorandum of Understanding“. The „europass Mobilität“ will ensure validation and acknowledgement of learning achievements.
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