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Une dynamique européenne élargie au service de la ..
Une dynamique européenne élargie au service de la formation professionnelle
Start date: Jun 1, 2016,
End date: May 31, 2017
PROJECT
FINISHED
Among the 7 pillars of the Haute-Follis vocational school’s project, 5 fit perfectly into the Erasmus + Programme: "contribute to our students’ personal fulfilment", “go hand-in-hand with an ever-changing professional world”, “complete projects successfully”, “broaden towards an international dimension”, "strengthen networks and partnerships". In order to successfully fulfill these requirements, over the last 4 years, our school has been organising European projects for the benefit of our students from the Administration and Management branch and the Precision Engineering branch, in their final school year.In 2015, our school is willing to offer the members of staff from the Social and Health Care branch a training outlet for their skills during a four-day training period in Denmark. These 7 members of staff (leaving next March) will visit organisations related to Elderly, Child Care and Care for people with disabilities. This will enhance their intercultural and professional awareness in the field of Health and Social Care and involve them, on their way back, in innovative educational and training projects with the students. This will also be an incentive to encourage the mobility of the students from the Social and Health Care branch for the upcoming class of 2016/2017.Through this new mobility application, our school both continues and broadens its European development. First, it is planning to bring a fresh experience to the second-year students of the Health and Social Care branch. Indeed, these students will be able to carry out a 4-week work-placement in Denmark, in November 2016. Then, 7 students from the Administration and Management branch will pursue the adventure through internships in Italy while 3 others, from the same branch, will be lucky enough to carry out their internships with our new German partner. The students will be guided through their settlement (either in flats), through their every-day life and through their placements by teachers from Haute-Follis vocational school. The students will live alone for a part of their stay abroad but they will be watched over by our local partners: the Istituto Scalcerle in Padua, the Fach und Berufsoberschule in Kulmbach, the Social & SundhedsSkolen in Herning and their mentors at work. As we do not yet have enough experience regarding assessments with the benefit of hindsight, the pupils carrying out their work-placements in Danemark and in Germany will be assessed on the spot by teachers from our school at the end of their internships.This assessment will have different aspects: reports in French and English, compulsory assessment grids for the national diploma, optional mobility test and extra tests for the European option of the national exam.Through this mobility, the students will gain extra professional skills, become more self-reliant and self-confident, gain in competence in a foreign language and be able to reflect on their future studies.Discovering European History and European Culture will aid our students to more fully appreciate their European citizenship. They will also benefit from extra Language classes in Italian (for the students from the Administration and Management branch) and also complementary classes in English (for the 2 branches involved). The European project will cement our courses even more into a professional context by fulfilling the demands of the professional sector (adaptability and mobility) and highlighting the vocational school courses. Thanks to our communication about the project, both within and outside the College, the results will be more understandable and the teaching staff will gain in legitimacy when encouraging the students to participate.In the near future we hope that this project will be embraced by all the sections of the school and that it will build on the school’s reputation of quality teaching via our innovative projects and our mobility projects not easily won over vocational school pupils.