This time I only want to focus on the relationships with my European colleagues.
Comenius aims to:
- improve and increase the mobility of students and educational staff across the EU; - enhance and increase partnerships between schools in different EU Member States; - encourage language learning, innovative ICT-based content, services and better teaching techniques and practices; - enhance the quality and European dimension of teacher training; - improve pedagogical approaches and school management.
In my school the mobility of the students is certainly increased during the last two years, because of EWB (Enterprise without borders) and Comenius. My teaching definately got an European dimension in everything that I do. I find that my students are more interested, more motivated to participate when given real, concrete examples and goals.
A very lucky side effect of our Comeniusproject is the relationship with my European colleagues. I couldn't have dreamt it to be this intense, this great friendship and understanding, this great teamwork for which I am very grateful.
We skype regularly and it is always fun. We start seriously with the work to be done but soon we have other ideas and are talking about that and our personal lives... Amazing... It already started in Norway when we visited for the first time (the second time for me and Jef) but exploded in Belgium with bonds I could never have imagined. This is great and this is super.
That's why we are planning a trip to London to meet. Jon (from Norway) is coming, so is Elke (from Austria), Jef and me, Sandra and Wendy with her husband... We are all booked in the same hotel at the end of July to stay 4 days... I quite look forward to this... It was hard for the students to part at the end of the second mobility in Belgium but it was also for us a little sad. The pictures on facebook brought back lots of good memories. Inga almost immediately started to prepare the trip to Latvia in September and Elke was even faster with the mobility to Austria. During all these preparations we felt the need to see each other again. One thought let to another and so we are finally going to meet in London at the end of this month. Unfortunately not everybody could come. That 's a great pity... But we will keep in touch, absolutely.
And now, I'm going to show we what an amazing group of teachers we have to make this project a success! I'm going to let the photo's speak for themselves....


















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