IES RAMON LLULL (València) Erasmus+ : 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!