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LET'S SHARE TEACHING! (JOB SHADOWING)
Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Compulsory and Post compulsory Secondary School created in 1996, which belongs to the Experimental Multilingual Group (GEP), a project that emphasizes the cross curricular treatment of languages and broadly uses CLIL (Contents and Language Integrated Learning). Our partner, Heistad ungdomsskole, where the Job Shadowing activity will take place is a Norwegian State Compulsory Secondary School in Porsgrunn (157 km far from Oslo), with students from 13 to 16 years old and Grades 8 – 10. Classes are normally in Norwegian, but they work in a cross curricular way and they include activities in English in different subjects to complete the students’ syllabus. One of the main aspects they include is the study of English-speaking countries culture.After using the CLIL approach since 2006, we consider a logical consequence to participate in e-Twinning projects as the best way to develop this kind of methodology. So to achieve our aims of improvement and development, we think necessary to have direct observation of teaching in our partner’s school and some other similar ones in the area. The attendance to different teaching staff meetings in general and especially with the teachers closely related to the European projects will be useful to compare our different learning methods. For this reason, at least a six-day stay will ensure an appropriate and effective observation that will allow us to apply the acquired contents and adapt them to our school’s reality. To carry out this project, the profiles for teachers that have been chosen are described below, taking into account they will be very good candidates to transfer all the new aspects observed that could be interesting for our school:PROFILE 1: Head of Foreign Languages Department and GEP Coordinator. She will ensure the application and/or adaptation of the new methodologies and she will pass them on the rest of departments and teachers at school. She will make a proposal for a teaching training after the observation period to guarantee that all the aspects that have been learnt have a real and effective application in our school.PROFILE 2: Member of Languages Department. LIC (Language and Social Cohesion Coordinator) and External Project Coordinator, also taking part in GEP project. She will focus on how languages are treated in a cross-curricular way, especially taking diversity into account. On the other hand, she will be responsible for the dissemination and consolidation of the project.PROFILE 3: Member of Foreign Languages Department, with a broad experience in teaching CLIL subjects (especially belonging to Social Sciences). Apart from this, she has trained other teachers at our school as regards to CLIL methodology. Her observation will be based on comparing our methodology to the Norwegian one when using English as an instrument of communication and she will consider the possibility of adopting some aspects or techniques to achieve an improvement when teaching these subjects at our school.PROFILE 4: Member of Expression Department (Music, Dance and Performing Arts). She will be responsible for the development of GEP project and she will ensure its development (school orchestra, musicals, dancing and music shows outside our school, etc.). She will be very interested in observing all the subjects and projects related to the subject of Music, apart from dancing shows or plays that could inspire some other future projects at our school, and even sharing working on these activities with some other European partners.We really expect this experience will have a very positive impact on our teaching community and it will make it easier to get to a common evaluation of all those innovative aspects that could be applied to our school reality. It will be interesting to write an report to share with all the teachers at our school and it will be analysed in the teaching staff meetings, in order to detect the possibilities of improvement for each of the areas observed to make any necessary changes. In this way, this innovation will need some training, this is why the teachers taking part in the observation will transfer all their knowledge to the rest of teachers by means of a course or seminar.
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