JORNADA SEPIE - Valladolid 26 y 27 junio

Comienza el segundo proyecto Erasmus+ del

IES RAMON LLULL. 

Y comienza con la asistencia de la Coordinadora ERASMUS+ al IV encuentro Nacional de proyectos de Acción Clave 1 (KA1) - Movilidad para el Aprendizaje del Personal de Educación Escolar (KA101) y de Educación de Personas Adultas (KA104).

Han sido dos días intensos de conocer nuevos aspectos y pormenores de esta convocatoria. De recordar todo lo que hay que reflejar en la memoria final de este proyecto que ahora acaba. Y lo más importante, de difundir las acciones de internacionalización de mi centro entre los colegas de España.

Considero que es una parte muy importante de este tipo de  encuentros.

De igual manera que valoramos la educación no formal para nuestros alumnos y nos esforzamos por ofrecerles oportunidades para mejorar todas y cada una de sus competencias, las conversaciones con colegas durante el café, la comida, los talleres, son momentos de aprendizaje y difusión.

No extendemos grandes pancartas o presentamos excelente Prezi, simplemente contamos de corazón cuánto se esfuerzan nuestros compañeros del claustro y cómo disfrutan nuestros alumnos.

De estas jornadas me llevo muchos apuntes para elaborar la memoria final del actual proyecto....

muchas "buenas prácticas" que tenemos que implementar para el desarrollo y seguimiento del segundo proyecto....

y muchos contactos para organizar algún tipo de encuentro entre comunidades autónomas para difundir nuestros proyectos.

Agradecer a la ciudad de Valladolid la amable acogida, al Sepie la organización, y a los representantes de la Comunidad Valencia su trabajo día a día.

Àngels Romeu

Coordinadora ERASMUS+

Directora IES Ramon Llull

Preparando la estancia de dos meses a Järvenpää, Finlandia

Reunión de toma de contacto entre todos los participantes a la cuarta edición de este proyecto conjunto Järvenpään lukio & IES Ramon Llull & IES Puçol.

Este año participan dos chicas del IES Puçol y tres del IES Ramon Llull. El pasado miércoles tuvimos en nuestro centro la reunión a la que asisten todos los participantes y sus familias.

A la reunión asistimos las dos directoras, Pilar Millán del IES Puçol, y yo misma, Angels Romeu del IES Ramon Llull, ya que somos las coordinadoras del proyecto. El orden del día es muy sencillo, poner en contacto a todos los participantes y sus familias resolver dudas de última hora sobre fechas y protocolos y hacerles entrega de la carta de funciones de las familias de acogida y la carta de consentimiento de envío de los menores de edad.

Desde la primera de las estancias, diseñamos una documentación conjunta basándonos en los documentos de los antiguos Comenius de la Unión Europea. Consensuales el contenido y los tres centros utilizamos los mismos formularios de solicitud de participación, de cartas informativas, etc. Esta misma documentación es la que nuestro centro utiliza para el resto de estancias largas y una versión simplificada para los intercambios de una semana.

Ya queda muy poco para que estos jóvenes empiecen su aventura finlandesa. En los primeros días de agosto volarán hacia Helsinki y allí les esperarán sus parejas y sus familias. Seguro que será una gran experiencia de vida.

Angels Romeu

Coordinadora Erasmus+

Difusión del proyecto europeo del IES Ramon Llull

El miércoles 10 de mayo nuestro vecino el IES Isabel de Villena organizó una Jornada de Formación y Difusión de Experiencias Erasmus+ y Proyectos Europeos. La jornada se enmarcaba dentro de su propio proyecto "Aprendiendo con emoción(es)" (2015-1-ES01-KA219-016158) y en ella participamos diferentes centros educativos. Nos recibió la coordinadora, Adela, una gran profesional que nos sirve de inspiración a muchos.

Las ponencias pusieron de relieve el gran interés por este tipo de proyectos y por la gran motivación del profesorado. En mi ponencia destaqué la necesidad de que los equipos directivos apoyen a los coordinadores de los proyectos y faciliten su tarea.

Una de las reivindicaciones de los directores de la zona es que estos equipos de internacionalización cuenten con horas lectivas de dedicación a los proyectos reconocidas como tales en sus horarios. En la mayoría de los centros centros visitados en los job shadowings se constata que la tendencia es a facilitar esa tarea y a reconocer de una manera u otra esta dedicación.

También hice hincapié en estos pequeños-grandes actos de difusión. Cuando inicias el proyecto tienes la sensación de que nadie va a interesarse por tus pequeños logros o por tus grandes dificultades, pero enseguida te das cuenta de que todo lo que hacemos en estos proyectos, lo acertado y lo desacertado, es interesante. Se aprende de tus errores y de los errores de los demás y te beneficias de tus aciertos y de los ajenos.

Ánimo a los que empiezan y gracias a los que nos están acompañando.

Angels Romeu

Coordinadora ERASMUS+

JOB SHADOWING - Skövde (Sweden) Monday 24th April

Monday 24th April 2017

Last working day in Skövde. The visit to Kavelbro is a must if you come to Skövde. It is vocational training high school with very updated facilities for the students. The Principal of one of the programms, Anna Lena Göteberg, has showed the premises and explained about the different programs students can follow. You can choose from plumbing to nursing, from cooking to building, from electricity to hairdressing, from social care to car mechanics, there is a very wide rage of posibilities.

  

Students have "theoretical" and practical lessons during the firs two years and after that they have a working timetable, they wear uniforms and the colours of the helmets indicate what branch of studies they are in. These professions are well placed in the job market, in fact most of the car students get a job right after their studies and those preparing to become a cook are offered a well-paid job even before finishing their studies and teachers have to struggle to keep them at school the last eight weeks!

There is also a section to teach less gifted students how to live on their own, they are taught to cook, to clean the house, to iron, to buy food, everything to have an independent life. 

Angels Romeu with Anna Lena Göteberg

Talking with the teachers, they have pointed out that maybe the fifteen-minute pauses between lessons are a bit too long and students disconnect too much. Also, there is a growing feeling that students do not appreciate the "free" things they get at school. For example lunch at school, even at upper secondary school, or the trips abroad. Of course, all this is paid with the taxes but students do not realise that it is a great amount of money dedicated to education and they have to be aware of where all that investment comes from.

After lunch at Kavelbro, Teresa C. Linderoth showed us Kultur Fabrik. It is a new museum and music school in one building. The music school is already working and the city museum will be finished by June. The resident exhibitions are those showed in the old City Museum, displaying the history of Skövde and its main treasures. There will be a clear connection between this historical funds and the approach to culture and its production. One of the main objectives is to promote the creation of culture and to encourage young artits to share their love for any cultural product and their own production.

With Tomas Olausson

At three I met Stefan Svensson and Teresa C. Linderoth, together with teachers Romina and Vicent, in a feedback meeting. We discused about this fruitful week and the collaborations to come. We are sure our relation will continue with the students exchanges of one week and with the long exchange we are about to start. Also, we will share all the good practises and teaching ideas as we have been doing for three years.

We had also a last meeting with Marie-Louise Brage to recapitulate and set the amin lines of work for the years to come, although there are great differences in the educational system, the realation between the Administration and the school management, and so on, education is one strong point in both our teams. As principals, we want the best for our schools, our students and our teachers. Our objectives are pretty much the same: ensure quality education.

That ensures a long realtion between both schools! See you soon in Valencia!

JOB SHADOWING - Skövde (Sweden) 21/04/17

Friday 21^st April 2017

Last day of the week and there we go to a morning class of Chinese with teacher Linda Kajonius. She is involved in the exchange with China, in fact last week the Chinese group of students and teachers were in Skövde. She is also in the team that is starting the ATLAS project I was talking about with Rosina on Tuesday.

Apart from the interesting class, some of the students have explained me how they borrow and return their course books from the school library. If they lose or damage any of them, they have to pay for a new one. As they have two librarians, they are who take care of the system.

At 9.35 I attended Spanish class 5 with Stefan Svensson and we were dealing with school bullying. We compared situations in both countries and how students, teachers and leading teams in the schools deal with the problem. In Sweden 6% of the students claimed to suffer some kind of bullying.

Al 11.15 Teresa C. Linderoth, Anna Ljunberg and I met to talk about the role and mission of “first teachers” in Skövde Gymnasium. There are twenty of them together in Västerhöjd and Kavelbro, they have different missions and that of Anna is to be a model teacher for her colleagues. She allows any one to attend her classes (all of it or just a few minutes, depending on the availability of the attending teacher) and learn about her innovative way of teaching. She offers advice and new approaches to any teacher that asks for them.

She has to write a log about what she does and the Principal, Mari-Louise checks it regularly to give feedback and at the end Anna writes a final report. The obstacles Anna faces are the same I may face in my school, not all the teachers are willing to admit criticism and to adopt new ways of teaching.

If the involvement does not become “compulsory” to follow the school “objectives” it is very complicated to fulfil the goals.

It should also be regarded as an activity included in the week timetable of the first teacher and all the first teachers may have a time in their timetables in which all of them are free to arrange meetings.

We also comment on the connexion between primary/compulsory education and upper secondary education. In the lower schools of Skövde there are first teachers too (a total of 189 in all the city) and they are not very connected with the upper secondary ones, so there is a clear lack of work line in this sense.

Then school lunch with the Spanish teachers to start talking about next year's exchange. We are seriously considering a one-week's exchange for a goup of students and a longer one (about 4/6 weeks) for a reduced group of students (2/3).

Then we met in the evening to have the so called official dinner to relax and have a feedback about all the experiences together. It has been three years now of collaboration and friendship is something that has grown between the two schools, so it is clear that work will go on and new projects are always in our minds.

It is interesting to see how different we are and how easy it is to connect through education.

Angels Romeu

ERASMUS+ Coordinator

IES Ramon Llull

JOB SHADOWING - Skövde (Sweden) 20 April 2017

Thursday 20th April 2017

From 8:00 to 9:15, I have attended a Spanish course year 4 with Santiago, a teacher from Madrid who has been working in Sweden for three years now. I have mingled with the students and made a short presentation about Valencian typical clothes. I have also talked to the students about the students exchanges they can participate in.

At 9:30 I had an appointment with Göran Tholin, school counsellor, it was supposed to be a one hour meeting, but the conversation was so interesting that we stopped almost to have luch on time for the next appointment.

We talked about the educational reform of 2011 and how it has affected less gifted upper secondary education students. At present they have to take exams on more subjects to get able to apply for the university. They can retake the exam (they have to pay a fee to pay the teacher that will set and correct the test) but they have to be motivated to prepare it.

About drop-outs, the amount is growing in Sweden, the main reason is bullying. Not physical abuse, but other "modern" ways of bullying: the most common one through mobile phones and their apps.

Also, it is a very frequent reason that the choice they have done does not suit them or fulfils their expectations. One motive can be teens are not doing what they want but what their parents want them to do. Other that they choose the study program without really knowing what it is about and what they can do afterwards.

The Individual Program is for students that did not completed their compulsory education. They must have at least 8 out of the 17 subjects passed to enter the program.There are five different branches to study and they can follow the program in different schools (Västerhöjd is one of them). They have regular teachers and specialised ones.

Then we revised the educational system and how people move accross the different levels (https://www.skolverket.se/ ; https://www.utbildning.se/).

After lunch I went back to the school library to learn about their cataloging method till my meeting with the person in charge of school building and maintenance in the municipality. he was a former teacher of Västerhöjd and has showed me the Town Hall as well as the organisation of all the departemts related to education.

Angels Romeu

ERASMUS+`Coordinator

IES Ramon Llull

JOB SHADOWING - Skövde (Sweden) 19/04/17

Wednesday 19 April

It has been a really busy day. I started attending two classes of English teacher Anna Ljungberg. The students were of the last year so they were advanced students. She used ICT and so did most of the students, you can still see notebooks on the desks. I think most students feel it is a good way to learn things as you have to pay attention, to understand to write them down.

While the students were working, she explained me about the National Tests and how they are carried out. She also pointed out that she usually sets no homework, it is the responsibility of her students to revise vocabulary and to exercise at home.

After lunch I made again a presentation for the last year students of Spanish, three of them had participated in the exchange with our school so it was really a pleasure to see them again. They were really interested in Fallas and our traditional clothes. I told them I would bring some clothes next time and, of course, they could see them in person next time they visit Valencia.

After that, I met Marie-Louise, the Principal and she informed me about some of her duties related to teachers' work, trimetables and even salaries. In sweden, as in Finland, it is the principal who "pays" the teachers, so they can decide if a teacher earns more than others.

We also compared the hours devoted to classes, those used for meetings (with head teachers, colleagues, the principal, parents, students, etc) and those we work at home.

We then talked about how she decided to apply for a position as a principal and the three-year grade at the university she has done. Quite different to the way peincipals get their position in Spain or in Finland.

Then I attended the defense of the research project Swedish students have to make in their last year at the gymnasium. At the beginning of the year, they decide the subject and talk with their mentor to get a guideline for the work. Then they have the time to work on it, in fact in their weekly timetable they have about two hours to do it.

Then they present their project to the mentor and to some other students who read it and look for things that can be improved. Then, they make a first defense of their project (that is what I attented) and the peers tell the author what can be improved, The teacher is taking notes about what is poointed out and how it is explained by the student that has presenting the project. then, the student rewrites it and will do the last presentation at the end of the year in front of younger students.

This procedure is similar to that used at university so the last year student are training for their future and the young audience sees what they will have to do in one or two years.

I think it is a very clever way to make the most of one single activity: write a project.

To end this extra busy day, I pampered myself with some sauna to get some energy before I wrote my report!

Angels Romeu

Erasmus+ Coordinator

IES Ramon Llull

JOB SHADOWING: Skövde (Sweden) 18/04/17

Tuesday 18th April 2017

First day of Job Shadowing in Skövde (Sweden) and first incredible day of work!

I was here in December 2016 and it has been a great pleasure to see again all the colleagues from the school. They have greeted me really warmly and I felt as if I had never left the Gymnasium.

My first meeting with Marie-Louise has started with a friendly chat as we have just seen each other in Valencia in March. She was there participating in a KA2 project with other five schools, one of them IES Campanar of Valencia. There we were, Marie-Louise, one of the Principal of Gymnasium Västerhöjd, Teresa Linderoth, teacher and coordinator of the exchange with our school, and Romina, a new teacher of Spanish and also involved in their KA2. I also met the rest of the participant teachers and they explained about their great project.

Well, back to the present day, I started at nine and Marie-Louise showed me the premises of the school I wasn't able to visit during the previous job shadowing, she has introduced me to some of the teachers and the students, and they explained me about what they were doing.

We have also discussed about daily life in both schools, and problems are the same everywhere. We are dealing with people so we have to deal with a wide range of situations.

The school has nine studying programs with a rektor for each one and a kind of "super rektor" for the school as a whole. There are about 2.200 students in the school and she has 360 students in her humanistics program and 35 teachers. It is more or less the size of the IES Ramon Llull.

She has told me about the eight programs and the new studies they are offereing. Also we have discussed about the fact  that they have a "health/wellfare/special needs" department that includes three nurses, three psycologists and three teachers for students with special needs in the school (for the 2.200 students), while we have one "orientador" (counsellor), one full-time teacher for the students with special needs and a half-time teacher for student with speaking problems.

We have visited the school library, there are two professional librarians which allows the library to be open longer hours. They use a personal cataloging method which I'd like to learn more about, so I'll ask for a longer meeting with them.

Then I met Rosina who coordinates many of the International projects. there is an internationalisation committee in the school and a budget to implement as many action as they can. The schools have to include these internationalisation actions in their programs, so they devote a budget for that. She introduced me to the ATLAS projects as she had recently attended a course on them. They sound really interesting so I will found more about them.

There is also a communication committee which is in charge of the marketing of the school, to give the citizens all the information about the school and to promote it. Also with a specific budget.

After luch I made my first presentation. This time it was about Fallas and Valencian typical clothing. It was for three courses of students of Spanish. So I have had a numerous audience!

After that we revised our program for tomorrow, a nice walk around the city and time to write my first report!

Great to be back in Sweden!

Angels Romeu
Erasmus + Coordinator
IES Ramon Llull 

Visita del instituto Sao Pedro da Cova, Portugal

Como parte del proyecto ERASMUS+ del centro, el pasado mes de julio realicé un curso en Joensuu sobre dirección de centros educativos y entre los participantes estaban Ana Rangel y Carlos Piedade, profesora y vicedirector de la Escola Secondaria Sao Pedro da Cova de Portugal. De esta semana de compartir experiencias quedó el compromiso de volver a vernos y colaborar los dos centros.

Y así ha sido, el lunes 3 de abril recibimos la visita de 26 alumnos del instituto de Sao Pedro da Cova que nos presentaron su proyecto sobre higiene, salud y primeros auxilios. Fue una experiencia muy interesante porque el proyecto está elaborado por alumnos de formación profesional y desarrollada en inglés. De esta manera el contacto entre los alumnos de bachiller del Llull y los de formación profesional del Sao Pedro fue doblemente provechosa.

Los alumnos estaban acompañados por Teresa, directora, Elisabet, profesora, además de Ana Rangel y Carlos Piedade. Acabada la exposición, el intercambio de regalos y las palabras de mutuo agradecimiento, les acompañé en su visita por el centro de la ciudad.

Fue muy grato hacer de cicerone de estos queridos colegas en mi ciudad y sobre todo se ofrecieron a recibirnos en su centro para realizar una visita de observación. Así que nos despedimos como futuros socios de ERASMUS+.

Àngels Romeu

Coordinadora ERASMUS*

Directora IES Ramon Llull

Job Shadowing de nuestras socias de Järvenpää

Este inicio de año ha estado lleno de gratos momentos relacionados con el trabajo y con el compañerismo. La relación con los profesores y equipo directivo del Järvenpään lukio cada vez es más fructífera ya que el intercambio de experiencias es continua.

El programa Erasmus+ nos ha permitido compartir nuestros proyectos KA1. Primero, en enero pude compartir una semana de trabajo en su centro en Finlandia y ahora en febrero somos nosotros los que hemos recibido a Marjo Uotila y Riitta Viittala en el Ramon Llull.

Los objetivos que hemos tratado en su visita al centro han sido los materiales digitales en educación y cómo los alumnos del máster de secundaria los incluyen en sus proyectos.

Riitta Viittala es editora de libros digitales en la editorial e-oppi y era la coordinadora de los profesores en prácticas en el Järvenpään lukio. Marjo Uotila es profesora de español y de inglés y utiliza materiales digitales en sus clases, tanto de elaboración propia como de editoriales educativas, y coordinadora de los intercambios con nuestro centro.

Como nuestro centro es centro autorizado para realizar las prácticas del máster de secundaria, Organizamos un taller con los alumnos que las están realizando este año. En el taller las profesoras finlandesas mostraron los materiales digitales que utilizan en sus clases, el software para la elaboración de los mismos, las plataformas que están a su disposición en el centro (Pedanet, Edison) y cómo son usadas por los profesores, alumnos y familias.

También se plantearon cuestiones referentes al uso de los materiales digitales en la universidad y en la elaboración de las unidades didácticas que los futuros profesores están elaborando. Se comentó la necesidad de ofrecer los medios materiales en los centros educativos, pero también la formación necesaria para los profesionales de la educación.

Nos reunimos también con profesores del Ramon Llull que utilizan materiales digitales y compartimos experiencias. Hay mucho que aprender y mucho que compartir.

Aprovechamos la visita de Marjo y Riitta pra realizar entrevistas con los alumnos interesados en participar en el intercambio 2017-2018. Fue una muy buena manera de que los alumnos nos hablaran de sus intereses y que nos expusieran sus dudas respecto al intercambio. ¡Ahora solamente queda concretar los candidatos!

En el programa de trabajo en nuestro centro se completó con observación de clases y reuniones con el equipo directivo. El programa de su Job Shadowing incluía visitas y talleres en el centro de las Escolapias de Gandía, el IES Puçol y el CEFIRE de València.

Por supuesto también hubo tiempo el parque natural de la Albufera, disfrutar de nuestra gastronomía, de nuestros museos y de agradables paseos por la tarde.

Albufera

Museo sobre la Albufera

Museo sobre la Albufera

MUVIM

Arròs del senyoret (El Palmar)

El Carmen (València)

La conclusión más importante de estos encuentros es que la educación nos une, siendo como somos de países muy alejados, con sistemas educativos muy diferentes, es posible establecer conexiones y compartir experiencias y materiales. No hay fronteras para la colaboración en educación y siempre hay algún aspecto que podemos mejorar y alguna práctica del país colaborador que nos puede ayudar.

Angels Romeu

Coordinadora Erasmus+

Job Shadowing - Järvenpää January 2017

Job Shadowing Järvenpää - Photo Report

Job Shadowing - Järvenpää Saturday 28th January

Last day of work. Today we are having a kind of happy feedback meeting. First we are having a great brunch and we are going to talk about my general impressions on the Job Shadowing experience and then we are going to Poorvo.

I think it has been a very complete program since I have been able to observe many different subjects and methodologies. I have also attended a rehearsal of the electronic examns Finland is carrying out nowadays. They have presented me software I can use in my classes and some which I may use if I get the permission to do so.

In my meetings with Principal Marja-Liisa and counsellors Katarina and Sanna, I have got to know new aspects of Finnish educational system. Obviously, there many procedures I cannot develop in my school because the educational laws and curriculum are different, but there are some aspects which I could use with some modification. It is for sure that I will present all these issues to my teachers so we can discuss possible changes in our school and in the way we teach and organise our daily routine.


When you first heard about the changes in the Finnish curriculum, they said they were leaving aside core subjects and they were not going to study any more maths, or philosophy, or history, but the truth is that it is way of getting this knowledge which is changing.

Students have to work even more in groups or in their own, they have to look for the information and discuss about it. Teachers have to make them think about real life and express their own point of view, students have to consider diversity as a reality and the respect to the others' opinion as a must in their life.

It is not necessary to know all the words and mathematical formaula by heart, you need a basic knowledge to communicate to understand things and then you can go on improving and you can always lookup the extra information you may need.

I would really like to go on with this issue in future Job Shadowings because I think it is an approach to the present situation quite similar to what I believe. I strongly approve this method of teaching and learning, you do not need to be perfect in any way, neither to know all the words, concepts or structures to be able to communicate, to understand theories or appreciate a piece of art. Long Life Learning is a reality and a basic truth for me. We are always learning so there is no point in trying to know absolutely everything.

And now, let's move to Porvoo. It is the second oldest city in Finland, after Turku, and located only fifty kilometers east of Helsinki. The area where Porvoo today lies is first inhabited with the arrival of Swedish settlers. Porvoo's centre opens up to a national urban park, in which the beautiful views and natural attractions are available for everyone by foot. The national urban park in Porvoo was established in 2010 and it extends approximately 10 km south from Old Porvoo, via the river estuary to the archipelago, as well a 8 km east.

Although we were heading to Pirvoo to have a relaxing and touristic day, we are teachers and we talked all our way to Porvoo about teacher training and Marjo and Riitta's Job Shadowing in February-March!!

It was a very interesting conversation and we even revised the program and added some new meetings and activities!

This is living proof of how interesting are face-to-face venues because you can extend your working hours and blend them with leisure activities that improve your knowledge about culture and education in the foreign country.

I am looking forward to receiving them at my school and going on with our collaboration!!!

Angels Romeu
Erasmus + Coordinator