Opettajiien täydennyskoulutus Erasmus+ 2020-2023
| Key Action | Learning Mobility of Individuals |
| Action | Mobility of learners and staff |
| Action Type | School education staff mobility |
Tikkakosken yhtenäiskoulu
Why did we apply for this project?
Our goal was to develop the operating culture of our school and one important focus was to develop internationality further after the break. The priorities of our school are well-being, participation and interaction, and we wanted to develop these skills in our students in the long term. Increasing internationality in the everyday life of the school would also bring more comfort to our school staff and students. Increasing tolerance was also relevant when the school had started to have students with a foreign background as well. An important goal of our project is also the development of teachers, and most of our mobility participants set goals for developing their language skills. In addition to improving the teachers' ability at work, the goal was also to get ideas for their own teaching and for meeting students. With the help of the project, we also wanted to get new contacts in Europe and thereby expand cooperation opportunities in the future also for students mobilities. After several years, we are planned to aply an Erasmus+ project for student mobility. An important factor in our application process was our principal Harri Penttinen's vision to make internationalization and once again a part of our school's everyday life.
What did we want to achieve by implementing the project?
In our school, we needed more and more skills to create a study-friendly atmosphere and support well-being. The need to support young people who, have difficultes to came to school and are therefore at risk of being marginalized, as well as the need to get new information, ideas and motivation to support students and their everyday work. In the long term, we wanted to increase internationality in the school's everyday life and thus also improve the school motivation of students who are at risk of being excluded, and to get students and staff to accept differences and the courage to develop their own communication skills and language skills. Many of our teachers feel that even though they know English, they don't have the courage to use it in everyday life. In addition, we wanted to get more knowledge and skill for our teachers and enthusiasm and motivation to plan mobility activities in the future, where our students can get to know new cultures and study with their peers either online or on site. In terms of internationalization, we were also interested in telling about the good practices of Finnish school culture and our own school (such social and hobby counselor, special education support and social strengthening groups)
What activities did we implement?
Four of our teachers participated in the courses and three in job shadowing as follows:
Teachers course, Hungary, Budabest: Secondary school teacher at the course "Brain Based Learning- To learn how students really learn"
Teachers course, Italy, Florence : Three secondary school teachers at the course "Florentine Renaissance art"
Job shadowing, Spain, Tenerife: Three primary school teachers, CEIP Fernando III El Santo, Tenerife
Due to Corona, we were not able to carry out all the movements we planned until 2022-2023. As a result, not everyone was able to attend the continuing education courses that we had originally planned and one teacher changed school. One of our principals and our physical education teacher both had to cancel their trip the day before because of the corona virus, and they didn't have the opportunity to go again, so the people and destinations changed.
In the last year of the project, in addition to these mobilities, five teachers- from Spain and several international students of University of Jyväskylä attended job shadowing weeks at our school
Teachers course, Hungary, Budabest: Secondary school teacher at the course "Brain Based Learning- To learn how students really learn"
Teachers course, Italy, Florence : Three secondary school teachers at the course "Florentine Renaissance art"
Job shadowing, Spain, Tenerife: Three primary school teachers, CEIP Fernando III El Santo, Tenerife
Due to Corona, we were not able to carry out all the movements we planned until 2022-2023. As a result, not everyone was able to attend the continuing education courses that we had originally planned and one teacher changed school. One of our principals and our physical education teacher both had to cancel their trip the day before because of the corona virus, and they didn't have the opportunity to go again, so the people and destinations changed.
In the last year of the project, in addition to these mobilities, five teachers- from Spain and several international students of University of Jyväskylä attended job shadowing weeks at our school
What were the results of our project?
The project's effects on our school culture have been even better than we expected. Currently, our school's international activities are one of the busiest schools in Jyväskylä. We now also have Erasmus+ accreditation, with which we enable international exchange for four more years. As a result of this project, five teachers from Spain, from two different schools, have already visited our school, this cooperation started with the first continuing education course in Budapest, and we have also done student mobility, which has also included special needs students. The job shadowing visitors gave lessons in English for different grade levels and also visited the special group of the elementary school, where the students had prepared for the visit and also learned a little Spanish. We have received several foreigners studying at Jyväskylä's higher education institutions in our school, and some of them also taught classes while completing their training.The language skills and motivation of teachers and students have improved. The teachers have received a lot of practical information and ideas for teaching and our school has also received new practices. Pupils are more motivated to study languages and they are interested in mobilities aboard.