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Toward the internationalisation of vocational training in IES Campiña Alta
Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

a) Context:The Campiña Alta Secondary School is located in El Casar, a town in the province of Guadalajara. It shares its boundaries with the province of Madrid. Due to its geographical closeness to Madrid (roughly 35 kilometres away), it has grown a lot in the last years as a consequence of the housing boom whch took place in Spain some years ago. Lots of families arrived in the area looking for cheaper houses to live in than on the outskirts of Madrid. El Casar is a ‘bedroom city’ of Madrid where plenty of families commute to work in Madrid every day. The public means of transportation are limited, especially between the town and the capital city of Guadalajara. There is a high school-abandonment rate in the area. The educational and cultural offers are very limited and overtly insufficient. The extremely high unemployment rate has considerably increased in the last years and it has left plenty of families in economic dire straits. The school has got 594 students who study ESO (Compulsoty Secondary Education Stage), Bachillerato (School-Leaving Post-Compulsory Education), Basic Vocational Training, Middle Grade Vocational Training and Superior Grade Vocational Training. The whole vocational training stage is part of the profesional family of Administration and Management Some of the students come from the very town El Casar but mostly do from neighbouring towns and residential areas, very badly connected with one another with public transportation and with inexistent cultural possibilities.Our school has offered the multilingual programme offered by the Regional Government of Castilla La Mancha since 2008. This linguistic programme has also been in existence for Vocational Training since 2011.Our school has recently started an internationalization process. The school received the ECHE letter for the mobility of students in 2013 and it is currently taking part in three mobility projects (KA 101, KA102 and KA103). It has carried out 10 mobilities since 2014. All of them have been for FCT abroad and Dual Vocational Training abroad. Our school has got hosting partners in Italy, Wales, Croatia and Malta. Financing for the key action KA 101 was received in 2015. It comprises six mobility actions for the formation of teachers including both courses for English teachers and for Teaching Methodology. Our school is involved in five eTwinning projects at the moment. We have been hosting partners of the LP Montgolfier Vocational Training Secondary School located in Annonay (France) since the 2015-2016 school year.b) Aims of the Project:The aims of the Project can be analyzed from a threefold perspective: students, teaching staff and non-teaching staff.1. As for students this Project will inmensely help them in the following respects:-It will increase their learning opportunities abroad.-It will provide them with the necessary skills for the transition from the learning and academic world to that of learning in real-life labour market.-It will enable them to improve their learning of foreign languages, especially English.-It will promote their knowledge of other cultures within other European Union member states (remarkably the United Kingdom).2. As for teaching staff this Project will enable them to improve in many areas and respects, namely:-It will favor the Exchange of teaching experiences and the methodological innovation in the vocational training educational stage.-It will Foster international cooperation among educational institutions in terms of the mobility of speacializaed Vocational Training teachers.-It will improve their learning of foreign languages, with special incidence on English.3. As for non-teaching staff this Project will also be of invaluable help since it will favour their improvement with respect to the following:-Their cooperation in the internationalization of their educational and academic institutions in therms of a better knowledge of the management of similar mobility projects.- Their promotion of their knowledge of other cultures of other European Union member states, with special relevance of the United Kingdom’s culture.c) Number and profile of the participants:-Eight Students either currently studying or who have recently finished their Middle Grade of Administration and Management Vocational Training studies.-Teaching Staff: One Vocational Training teacher.-Non-Teaching Staff: One office worker.d) Description of the activities. They can be carried out in any of the following institutions:-Practical learning for both students currently studying or who have recently finished their Vocational Training studies . This learning can be done either at the hosting partner’s offices, at Vocational Training Secondary Schools within the network of the project’s members led by our hosting partner or at a Vocational training school with the whole network of our project’s partners.-Observation period for the teaching staff at a Vocational Training course with the p

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