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Higher education student and staff mobility project
Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Maria Pacheco is a secondary school which also offers vocational training courses for Sports Trainers and Sign Language Interpreters. It is in Toledo, city in the region of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. Our school has been awarded the Erasmus Charter for Higher Education for the period between 2014-2020.. Previous to this, we took part in the Erasmus Programme for students´professional training from 2009 to 2010. By taking part in the Erasmus+ Programme we would like to achieve the following aims: 1.- To promote our teachers and students ´mobility to fulfill specific programs in companies and institution in other countries in the European Union. 2.-To achieve the competences required for the corresponding professional diploma in a European framework which can make it easier for students to be able to work anywhere in the European Union. 3.-To take part in teacher and students´exchanges with other countries belonging to the European Union. 4.-To encourage teachers to take part in teaching activities at schools in different countries in the European Union to acquire a greater professional competence. 5.-To improve linguistic communication skills in the language of the host country. 6.-To achieve students´autonomy so that they can get trough their working life successfully. There have been seven participants in this project: six students and a teacher. Four students from the vocational training course for Sport Trainers and two students and a teacher from the Vocational Training course for Sign Language Interpreters. The students have carried out the specific activities from the professional module "Formation and Working Place" related to each vocational training course, for a period of three months and 380 hours. The students spend 6 hours at the working place, doing different activities offered by the working centre, always with the assistance of a person in charge of the activity. In a first stage, the students watch how the person in charge teaches or carries out the activity, to be able to learn the characteristics of it, either related to the teaching of Sports Activities or to Sign Language Interpretation. In a second stage, the students help the person in charge of the activity in the tasks they make considerer appropriate: getting the material ready, organizing the group, giving participants information, teaching certain activities, etc. In a third stage, the students carry out the specific activities, as well as class sessions with Sign Language users int he native language of country. The students´tutor organizes and controls the activities and the most appropriate schedule, according to the working centre and students´needs. As regards the activities carried out by the teacher during her five-day formative stay, they have been as follows: She watches : activities carried out by students of different ages at Doncaster Deaf Trust. She took part in some simple activities with students which the person in charge considered appropriate for her formation period. There was also an exchange of experiences both with teachers and other staff at the school at the school. The results and impact achieved from the teachers´formative stay, as well as the expected benefits refer to: The knowledge of the school facilities, as well as the characteristics of the staff who work in the different areas with Doncaster Deaf Trust Students in comparison with similar schools in Spain. Sharing the formative experience with the others teachers of the Sign Language Department at our school. Practicing the knowledge acquired in the students´formation. Establishing a close connection between the two schools o a future exchange of experiences both for teachers and students. As regards the results and impact achieved, as well as the long term expected benefits for the students, they are related to the ones expressed in the formative programme.. Specific formation trough the fulfillment of the specific activities of the vocational training course they belong to each working centre. The improvement of their language skill int the foreign language they chose. Their growth as a person trough the experiences they have lived in a different cultural context. All this will allow students to have a better possibilities to find a job, to have a better personal training to be able to face future challenges, as well as to be an example to future students who may want to take part in the Erasmus+ Programme.
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