Friday
21st 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
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