DIARY OF A COMENIUS ASSISTANT

When teaching goes beyond national boundaries

Laura Pipponzi

About Comenius:

'We are all citizens of one world.'

Comenius is part of the Lifelong Learning Programme (or LLP): it brings the European Commission’s various educational and training initiatives together under a single umbrella.

Mobility Individual pupil mobility In-service training of staff grants Assistantship grants for student teachers

Parnerships Multilateral projects

Schools partnerships Regio partnerships eTwinning

The Comenius Programme funds several types of actions related to school education:

Encourage language learning and better teaching techniques and practices

Enhance the quality and European dimension of teacher training

Improve and increase the mobility of pupils and educational staff across the EU

Enhance and increase partnerships between schools in different EU Member States

Goals:

Comenius aims to:

Mobility of individualsThe Comenius Assistantship

Grants enable future teachers to spend 3 to 10 months in a school abroad and to assist in teaching.

Mobility of individualsThe Comenius Assistantship 1) helps to improve language skills of

pupils at the host school

2) can increase both their motivation to learn languages and their interest in the assistant's country and culture...

My experience as a Comenius Assistant

An Italian

as English teacher assistant in

Catalonia…

My COMENIUS experience

School: Eladi Homs - Primary 4, 5 and 6 classes

Vehicular language: Catalan Second language: Spanish Foreign language: English

My COMENIUS experience

1. Improve English

English corner

My COMENIUS experience

2. The English language helps discovering another culture

BUT HOW?

2.1 Cooking show: How to make pizza

2.2 Italian traditions

2.3 English theatre play: Pinocchio

2.4 Pub quiz about Italy

My COMENIUS experience

3. Other activities

Personal interview for the school radio Italian class at the break time Involvement in school festivities

workshops

Useful links: The Lifelong Learning Programme

http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-programme

Comenius English Activities in the school http://sites.google.com/site/eladihomsenglish/2010

Personal blog: “Diario di bordo di un assistente Comenius”

http://diarioassistentecomenius.blogspot.com

Laura Pipponzi

THANKS