Job Shadowing and Student Exchange

Exchange of Students & Teachers

The innovation comes with testing the classroom activities using virtual reality when schools face another physical lecture delivery disruption. The VR classrooms have been tested at Futurum High School but without any added value and experience from partners abroad. By inviting partners from Finland and UK to the project, we were able to test actual mobilities within the VR classroom environment and collaborate on diverse subject topics. 

The initiation of strategic partnership has been founded on the past visits of the teaching staff of Futurum High School at Metropolitan College in Brighton. This shadowing had been of great help to all stakeholders. The teachers have been able to oversee lectures and communicate in a foreign language to exchange practices related to the inclusion of children with English as their second language. In this project, stakeholders were able to deepen and strengthen the partnership activities.

Using new technologies and implementing best practices from the UK, Finland and the Czech Republic formed a unique set of partners for virtual reality classroom testing. 

Teacher & Student Participants 

The teachers were selected according to their specialisation and the subject they teach at the home institution in order to be part of relevant VR classroom subjects. Another aspect is also language competencies of teachers being able to communicate with their counterparts and understand the subject in English. 

Students who participated were selected according to their level of English and their interest in the subjects. The students were selected by the organizers to be part of the VR classrooms. In the VR classroom were included as many students as possible, in order to increase the impact on students and relevancy of the feedback. 

Teachers visited via physical mobilities first, in order to grasp best practices from each school and subject where its teachers have specialisation. With the experience from VR workshops and job shadowing, participating teachers exchanged the information and methodologies for the VR classroom testing and build a proper lecture plan which includes practices from English, Finish and Czech education models.

European VR classrooms should be diverse and inclusive. The final phase of VR class testing was done at all participating schools. 

There were demonstrations of 4 VR classes testing with a prepared lecture plan for each subject. 

In the last part, participating teachers met and evaluated the results of the project. The manual and lesson plans for each subject with 3 alternative topics were published in an electronic version and in print in participating schools.

Objective

The objective of this strategic partnership between specialised vocational schools from the Czech Republic and the UK and upper secondary school from Finland were able to source knowledge and good practices from all stakeholders to ensure the exchange of good practices in the digital age. The system in each country holds different predispositions which help to achieve the ultimate goal of the project and can bring added value to individual schools for future teaching activities, especially with novel online approaches. 

• The main target key group are students aged from 16 to 19 years. 

• The main topic was the implementation of VR classrooms focused on Science- Biology, Arts, Maths, and English into the schools' curriculum. 

• The goal was to link classrooms in all participating schools to create VR class content and help teachers to implement these techniques in regular classrooms in the future.

In order to achieve this, teachers were exchanging the best practices by job shadowing at partner schools in subject areas of Science, Arts, Maths, and English.