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Comenius assistantsenhancing plurilingual and intercultural competences

Silvia Minardi Rome, 22 November 2013

IN A WORD!!HOW ARE YOU FEELING?ANY IDEAS TO START FROM?WHAT'S YOUR MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE?

“it’s a perfect way of getting to know a

country, a language, the people, yourself.

What is more, it is also a great opportunity of seeing whether or not

you’re fit for becoming a professor (I’m still

deciding on that!)”

what does the Comenius assistants programme do for you?

YOU CAN - improve your language skills - work with experienced teaching staff - gain an insight into another European education system

what can a COMENIUS

assistant do?

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what are you doing?

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what are you doing?1. Language teaching 2. Teaching other subjects 3. Helping in projects 4. Assisting in European projects 5. Teachers / Staff meetings 6. Development of teaching materials 7. Extra-curricular activities 8. Others

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Friedhelm Maiworm, Heiko Kastner and Hartmut Wenzel Study on behalf of the European Commission, DG Education and Culture (Kassel 2010) Period: 2000-2009 •7000 assistants involved (45% answers) •4000 schools (47% answers)

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What do schools expect?

Table 3.2 Important reasons for schools to apply for a Comenius Assistantship - by country

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What does the assistant do?

1. Teach a language

2. Teach your specialist subject

3. Enchance the European dimension across the curriculum

4. Raise awareness of the European Union

5. Help develop links with other European countries

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1. Teach a LANGUAGE:- ENGLISH - YOUR MOTHER TONGUE, i.e. ONE OF THE EU LANGUAGES

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- your LANGUAGE - your COUNTRY/CULTURE

the Comenius assistant as cultural resource

you are actually a real person

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Distinguish between personal experience and national experience

Try to avoid creating stereotypes about your own

culture, i.e avoid generalisations

Use this work in cultural studies to find out more about Italian culture

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An idea: I. IMAGES, DESCRIPTIONS, STEREOTYPES

Spain is… (objects, places, ideas, people...)

To be Spanish is to be… (adjectives or short phrases)

The Spanish language is… (adjectives or short phrases)

Spanish words/expressions I know:

A slogan for Spain:

III. CONNECTIONS - Do you know any Italians of Spanish origin? - Do you know any Spaniards of Italian origin? - Do you know about any joint Spanish-Italian projects? (technical, political, economic, artistic)

II. INFORMATION Give the name of

•three Spanish regions •three Spanish towns •three Spanish writers (poets, novelists) •a Spanish singer •a Spanish football player •a Spanish song •a Spanish actor •some typical Spanish food •…

REALIA PHOTOS, POSTERS, DRAWINGS QUESTIONNAIRES, SURVEYS GRAPHS, TABLES, DIAGRAMS, STATISTICS SONGS, MUSIC, RHYMES, POETRY, LITERATURE VIDEO and OFF-AIR TELEVISION

to introduce a cultural topic - MATERIALS

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Teaching a lesson with cultural content

ideas

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with younger learnersa) making and doing activities e.g.like making an Easter or Christmas card, making

posters of topics, drawing maps or pictures to illustrate topics

b) keep to visual stimulus + story-telling, songs

and rhymes c) topics related to - the seasonal calendar - students’ lives: school and the school day,

extracurricular activities at school, towns, villages and cities, spare-time activities, television and media, pets, home life, eating patterns, etc.

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Older teenagers / Young adults

TOPICS: the changes in their

own society; the different roles and

expectations; the freedom of young

people; anything related to

generations

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materials for lessons used to explore an era in history or a theme related to cultural identity.

Using contrasting genres

Combining a song with a short literary

extract or some background reading or an autobiography/biography of a person or a poster

Song lyrics often reflect the concerns of the day and the culture of the singers

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Projects and student research

Examples (small scale): • making a list of products from your

country in Italian supermarkets • using Italian news to read about

your country

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Projects and student research Examples (larger scale): • an ongoing activity involving students

collecting data on …., • surfing the Internet to find out about a

person or an era • making posters for the classroom

2. TEACH YOUR

SPECIALIST SUBJECT

CLIL methodology in Italian schools

- where? - who? - how? - what languages?

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CLIL methodology

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3. ENHANCE THE EUROPEAN DIMENSION ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

4. RAISE

AWARENESS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

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Inspiring

teaching material about the European Union

5. HELP DEVELOP

LINKS WITH OTHER

EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

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etwinning is the European

Commission’s online school collaboration

tool. It allows teachers, and students in

European countries to work together using

Information and Communication

Technology (ICT).

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Teachers and students can: -form short or long term partnerships - collaborate on a whole range of curriculum based projects in any subject area - use an array of ICT tools.

1. Teach a language

2. Teach your specialist subject

3. Enchance the European dimension across the curriculum

4. Raise awareness of the European Union

5. Help develop links with other European countries

Your contribution to… life outside after-school clubs, school outings, special cultural events, language classes for staff or parents, presentations to local groups…

European citizenship

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Silvia Minardi silvia.minardi@tiscali.it www.slideshare.net/silviaminardi www.lend.it

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