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Staff mobility and training
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Our school is settled in Molise, central Italy, in an area essentially devoted to agricultural and administrative offices /clerical work . An area that, unfortunately, is facing the problem of a high youth unemployment. It is a secondary grammar and vocational school, too. Grammar school students have two types of curriculum, one more scientific and the other one with more lessons of Classical languages (Latin and Greek). Starting from the next school year we will have an additional sports course whose curriculum is based on subjects related to sports, besides those of an "ordinary" secondary grammar school. We are a small school, but we are very ctive in European projects, in using ICT in teaching-learning activities and in our students' careers guidance both for university or job. In the last two years we have run a bilateral Comenius project, two eTwinning projects, two national ICT projects called respectively "scuol@2.0" and "EDS", the former aimed to have ICT used in all the classes and the latter to use ebooks. Finally, we are still running a national project called FIXO for students' careers guidance. Unfortunately, all these activities have been run by a small group of teachers and as experimentations. Now, we are firmly convinced it is time to involve the whole staff if we really want to reduce the mismatching between the labour market requests and students' competences. And we think that international training courses can help effectively to reach this objective in mid-term period. What we expect in concrete from the staff international mobility is their professional improvement in the following sectors: - using innovative students' centered and inclusive methodologies - effective usage of ICT in teaching and learning activities - effective usage of CLIL methodology both for the improvement of foreign languages and subject competences - improvement in foreing languages teaching and learning and in European cultural diversity awarness - using European certificates to state teachers' and students' competences - improving international cooperation - setting a school curriculum centered on the European dimension of Education and on the development of the 21st century competences (critical thinking, communication, collaboration, creativity) - better awarness of policy and organization of European systems of education and training - better awarness of the diffusion of ICT in European schools, their employment in teaching and learning, already experimented pros and cons. The planned Principal's mobility has the aim to know good practices to: - cut off drop-outs and the number of low-skilled adults; - match labor market requirements and students' skills - enhance entrepreneurship both in staff and students - use European certificates to state staff and students' skills Mobility will involve 17 people in total in one year, headmaster included and he will attend two training courses. All the selected courses include theory but especially case studies. I n order to get the maximum benefits from the mobility, the participants will refresh their linguistic competencies and will study the materials the course providers will send. After the mobility, the participants will immediately apply in their teaching what they would have learnt during the course. Besides they will lead workshops for their colleagues at school and for those in service in nearby schools. The workshops will aim to inform about the experience and the achivements. Long-term benefits we expect are: - internationalisation and modernization of our curriculum according to the 21st century skills - larger involvement of the stakeholders in the planning of the school activities - improvement in students' skills and consequent reduction of the youth unemployment - development of staff and students' entrerpreneurial capacities - improvement in foreign languages skills of both teachers and students - usage of European certificates to state students' and teachers' acquired competences - usage of ICT to promote participation, active citizenship and access to information
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