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