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IES Clara Campoamor: integración de la formación internacional de profesores y alumnos
Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

CONTEXT This teacher learning Project is placed within a secondary Education school, the IES Clara Campoamor in La Solana (Ciudad Real). It?s a town with 16,392 inhabitants whose economy is based on farming. The school welcomes the half of the students of the municipality and of the nearby towns like San Carlos del Valle and Alhambra. This current school year the school has 571 enrolled students and 45 teachers. The school shows a high rate of early school dropout (around 40%) and its main problem is the lack of motivation for going on studying as well as the low prospects in students? academic performance and in future training found in the family environment. From 2008, the school teaches bilingual lessons within the Bilingual Sections Programme. Besides, it has taken part in 2 Comenius Multilateral Associations and in a MAC programme together with a school from Iceland. NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS 10 teachers from the school participate in this project which represents the 20% of the staff. 9 didactic departments are included, 2 Language teachers (English and French), one of them is the coordinator of the Bilingual Sections Programme, the Headmaster of our school, 2 teachers of non linguistic disciplines (Physical Education and Technology), the coordinator of International programmes, the responsible of the Department of Extracurricular activities and also 3 teachers whose intention is to participate in the Bilingual Sections Programme next school year. DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES In accordance with the described profile of the members of the staff, the training activities that will be carried out are: - 2 Language teachers (English and French) will be trained in methodology for bilingual programmes enrolling in courses in Ireland and France. - 4 teachers, including the Headmaster of the school will improve their language competence thanks to a CLIL course (Content and Language Integrated Learning) that will take place in the Czech Republic and Ireland. - 2 Physical Education teachers will be trained in physical activities in the environment methodology improving at the same time their English competence in a seminar held in Iceland. - 1 teacher, Coordinator of previous Comenius and MAC projects, will widen his knowledge about the design and development of international programmes (Strategic Associations KA2) in a specific course held in Italy. - 1 Technology teacher will carry out a professional observation stay sharing strategies for the teaching of his subject in Portugal. METHODOLOGY The school carries out every year a study about the academic needs and explains in inner projects proposals for improvement. One of the most important is the linguistic qualification in English of an enough number of teachers to consolidate and widen the Bilingual Sections programme and to foster the involvement of students in international programmes. Detected this need, the school established as a main aspect the active participation of the highest number of teachers in the continuous training within the Eramus+ programme. Relying on the experience in Multicultural Comenius Associations and MAC, the school gained access to the information about this programme and spread it among all the school staff. Coordinated by the Administration of the high school and the responsible of these programmes, the different departments detected their specific needs according to the goals of the school. Each department contacted via email with the organizing institutions of each educational action, they received an immediate answer and the confirmation of the admission in the requested course for each teacher. SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE RESULTS AND EXPECTED IMPACT The main expected result of these training actions is the certainty of counting on the greatest number of teachers certified with at least a B2 level of English to guarantee the appropriate functioning and the improvement in the quality of the Bilingual Sections programme. In a school with such a high rate of dropout among students, the teachers? training in European programmes and its start up is essential to foster prospects towards study in them. These programmes are inspiring a great amount of students making them discover other more exciting and motivating ways of learning. The broadcasting of these activities produces a big impact on all our pupils because they are checking that their classmates are able to put into practice successfully international programmes. BENEFITS IN THE LONG TERM - To achieve that all teachers take part in the European dimension of education being able to instill in our students the vital importance of the learning of foreign languages. - To promote in the school and in the town a favourable atmosphere towards the international training as a means of personal and economic growth.

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