Viatges d'intercanvi

Erasmus Greece

El curs 2018/19 un grup d’estudiants de l’IES Madina Mayurqa, del qual jo formava part, vam partir a Grècia amb un programa Erasmus, que tractava el tema de l’ Abandonament escolar. Quan hi vàrem arribar, vam instal·lar-nos a l’hotel, on passaríem les nits següents.

La visita a un col·legi no va començar fins al dia següent, per tant, tenguérem tot un dia lliure en què visitàrem la ciutat i sopàrem a un restaurant italià.

Al dia següent, en arribar al col·legi, ens reberen amb una grata benvinguda i ens mostraren les instal·lacions i l’edifici. Els dies següents visitàrem la ciutat, els monuments, i entre ells, el Partenón. Va ser una passada!

En general, crec que va ser una bona experiència, a més de molt productiva ja que coneguérem la cultura grega i, endemés, hi vaig poder fer molts d’amics.

Recomanaria a tothom aquesta experiència.

Alexandre Díez Barceló (Atenes)

Va ser una experiència on vaig poder aprendre més de la cultura grega. Em va sorprendre la importància de la música a la seva cultura. Recoman molt aquesta experiència, crec que tothom hauria de tenir l'oportunitat de viure-la

Lucía M. Cabello (Atenes)

Erasmus Lituània

Quan vaig anar a Klaidepa el que més em va agradar va ser com ens van rebre els al·lots i les al·lotes perquè ens varen ensenyar els millors alumnes que tenien i els seus talents, sobretot, musicals; per exemple, una nina va tocar l’hukelele. També els professors foren molt amables amb nosaltres i estaren molt pendents de la nostra comoditat.

Daniel Hroshkow (Lituània)

Va ser una experiència increïble, una vivència que recoman a tothom.

Hi vaig conèixer gent molt simpàtica i vaig aprendre molt d’anglès. El país era molt bonic. Increïble. Ens varen rebre genial, amb activitats diverses i molt completes.

Raquel Velasco (Lituània)

On the personal side, participating in the Erasmus program has been a very enriching experience. It has been very interesting to know a Lithuanian educational center and share experiences with teachers and students of different nationalities: Spanish, Lithuanian, Greek and Romanian. From a professional point of view I have been able to compare different educational methods and reflect on the causes of early school leaving in the countries participating in the program but I would have liked to go deeper into the knowledge of the Lithuania´s education system.

The philosophy behind Erasmus is great. Facilitating contact between young people, teachers and centers in different parts of Europe is very positive. It is surely one of the initiatives in the educational field that most allow strengthening ties and contributing to feel a little more Europeans.Travel to discover other cultures, other educational systems, other ways of doing, other ways of living, get to know the landscape, the climate and the local cuisine... All this is very and very positive. Another thing is the different repercussion that these activities have in each place and in each centre. As in kinder garden and primary schools it is much easier and simpler to involve them within the Erasmus programme and in exchanges because, at least in the Spanish state, it works in cycles and projects. However, it is not the same at secondary level. Each subject is a compartmentalized world and work interdisciplinarity and make everyone work in it, it is almost impossible. Everybody wants to give the curriculum of their subject and find holes in the schedules and often work in groups outside the center the topics studied. It is true that students and teachers are always involved in making very positive assessments, but the incidence of an Erasmus in a center of secondary in Spain is lower.

I really enjoyed getting to know Klaipedia and seeing the work that teachers were doing at the infant and primary level. I was missing, however, to see how they apply it to secondary level. Adolescence is a different world from childhood and I would have liked to see how they reacted and how they moved Lithuanian teens. In the end, it is a world where I moved more than 30 years ago. In this respect, it would be positive for the contacts to be made by levels or by age. The functioning of the Centre and, above all, the dynamics of the pupils, are quite different.

It wouldn't be fair to say that the organization on the part of the Lithuanian team was excellent and that we felt very welcome. They were well designed and planned activities. Discovering young People's musical training, the level of English in which they are moved and visiting the school was particularly interesting. However, I would have liked to see how other young people did the topic of school dropout applied to their country. They should be given the role they deserve. Perhaps a meeting where there are only a few, it does make sense that the teacher does the exhibition of the subject.

In any case, made these punctuations, I do not have any more to wish long life to Erasmus.

Erasmus+ “Stop ESL”

Report- My experience in Greece, teachers and students meeting abroad. March, 11^th-15^th.

Last year I could live an unforgettable experience. One of the teachers of the Spanish team was on leave, and I could join the group travelling to Greece. I had been previously involved in the tasks proposed by the coordinators of the project and my English level was considered good enough.

Finally, twelve of us travelled to Pyreus, four teachers and eight students.

The principal of the Greek School in Drapetsona booked a hotel in Pyraus, twenty minutes far from his school, and the members of the three visiting countries were located there. We could combine some work, workshops, students and teachers socialization, cultural immersion in a foreign country and visits to different places and landmarks.

The Romanian and the Greek coordinators organized a precise agenda, and daily we had things to do, even some moments for leisure.

I think that both teachers and students greatly enjoyed the experience.

The students were initially a bit shy, but eventually began to introduce themselves to the boys and girls of the different nationalities, meeting and talking about their lives.

I remember melting with other teachers, social workers, a university teacher, members of the parent association, guides, clercks, waiters, people in the street...

The meeting helped both teachers and coordinators, who had to plan the trips and coordinate tasks, and the pupils, who could learn about other cultures, meeting other boys and girls, and learning about countries that probably were unknown to them.

This experience allowed all the participants to enhance the bounds among countries sharing a multicultural and diverse relationship.

The meeting that we had the teachers in Romania was positive. There came the organization of the activities to be carried out as well as the planning of the following meetings. Two of the participating countries withdrew and we had to restructure all activities.

It was also interesting to see how school dropout was treated with different activities related to new technologies.

One issue was that we were in an elementary school and we were high school, the activities that were proposed to us were not consistent with our level.

We value very positively the treatment obtained by the hosts as well as the concerted visits.

In this meeting we were teachers and a group of 8 students. As in the other meeting we organized activities that we were going to carry out in the following months until the next Erasmus that would now be Lithuania, we also reviewed the status of the activities that should already be delivered.

We were able to show students the differences between educational systems, as well as the difference between cultures.

We also enjoyed the visits proposed by the hosts, especially the visit to Athens.

Although students from different countries were smaller than ours, they interacted easily and were able to share experiences with each other.