Erasmus+ courses

Three days course and contact seminar focusing on foreign language teaching, international cooperation, class/student exchanges, and Erasmus+ within lower secondary school education – pupils age 13-17.

Program:
Monday October 9th, 2023 - find your future partners for class exchanges, job-shadowing and online cooperation

09.00  Welcome to Le Bicolore
Introduction of participants and specific interests

Moderator: Jakob Clausager Jensen

09.45  Workshop: Best practices of class exchanges/pupil mobility

10.15  Break

10.45  Workshop: Best practices of job-shadowing

11.15 Workshop: eTwinning and best practices of online cooperation 
Ritt Kristensen, eTwining Denmark

12.00 Lunch

13.00 Workshop in smaller groups 
    1. Erasmus+ pupil mobilities
2. job-shadowing opportunities
3. Online cooperation 

14.30 Coffee break

15.00 Workshop in smaller groups 
               1. Erasmus+ pupil mobilities
               2. job-shadowing opportunities
               3. Online cooperation 

16.00  Walk n’ talk - walk to Pont Neuf

17.00  Cultural event: Seine boat cruise

18.30  End of today's program

Tuesday October 10th, 2023 - The teaching of English as secondary language
9.30 Welcome
Ambassador Michael Starbæk Christensen, The Danish Embassy in France
Moderator: Britt Stochholm, The Academy for Free School Teaching

9.45 Understanding and developing foreign language teaching for better learning
Hanne Leth Andersen, Rector, PhD Language & Learning, Roskilde University
Language pedagogy is a complex composition of a great number of specific choices made both while preparing and during the actual teaching. Language teaching therefore heavily depends on the teacher’s (and the learners’) underlying overall understanding of what a language is, what the specific target language is, and how it is learned. At the same time, it is influenced by teacher and student roles and motivation. As such, language teaching may include communicative tasks, reading, grammar, differentiation, media and digitalization, role plays, and direct or hidden reference to learning strategies and learning styles, etc. In Hanne Leth Andersens's presentation she will show how you can develop your teaching by reflecting, individually or with colleagues, on your own deep understandings and the many choices you make. In this way, she will refer to theories on teacher cognition, language acquisition, grammar and language description, pedagogy, and motivation.

10.45 Break

11.00 Workshop: How do you work with language teaching in your school?

11.45 Lunch

12.45 Photo: Meet outside in front of the embassy

13.00 Intercultural Competence
Michael Byram, Professor – Universities of Durham (England) and Sofia (Bulgaria)
Foreign language teaching has a natural focus on communication with those who speak other languages. Traditionally this implies people in other countries, although today in our multicultural societies, there are many who speak other languages in our immediate environment. Communication is however not just a matter of exchanging information or opinions. It should involve a deeper understanding of others – and they of us. Communicative competences need to be complemented by intercultural competences and in this talk Michael Byram will describe intercultural competence, its relationship to language teaching - and other subjects in the school curriculum - and illustrate what this means in practice, both language teaching practice and the practices needed in exchange visits focused inter alia on language acquisition.

14.00 Workshop: How do you work with intercultural competences in your school?

14.20 Break

14.45 Workshop in smaller groups 
               1. Erasmus+ pupil mobilities
               2. job-shadowing opportunities
               3. Online cooperation

15.30 Concert

16.30 Hand out of seminar certificates and end of today's program


Wednesday October 11th, 2023 - School visits:

9.30 We meet outside the school

10.00 School visit: in smaller groups we visit different secondary school in Paris 
The schools are situated in Seine-Saint-Denis on the way to the airport

12.00  End of today's program

 

Practical information
Where:  Maison du Danemark (le Bicolore), 142 avenue des Champs-Elysées, 75008 Paris, France

When:  October 9th-11th, 2023

Participants: European lower secondary school teachers and leaders (students age 13-17)

Course fee: 0 Euro - includes course fee and meals described in the program.
Transport and hotel is not included in the price - participants must book hotel and transport themselves.

Organizer:
The Danish Efterskole Association
Jakob Clausager Jensen, Head of international relations
jcj@efterskolerne.dk, +45 22361153
Farvergade 27 H, 2., 1463 Copenhagen K, Denmark

and

 

The Danish Free School Association

Jakob Ringgaard, Head of international relations

jakob@friskolerne.dk, +45 44227926

Middelfart 77, 5466 Asperup, Denmark

The activity is partly financed by Erasmus+

Formålet med kurset er at give kursisterne en bred viden om EU’s institutioner, det daglige arbejde i Bruxelles samt nuværende og fremtidige problemstillinger indenfor det europæiske fællesskab.

Program:

Two-three day program

Practical information:

Where:  EU institutions in Brussels

When:  27-29th November 2023 and Spring 2024

Participants: Teachers from European lower secondary schools (students age 15-17)

Course fee: 0 Euro - includes course fee and meals described in the program.
Transport and hotel is not included in the price - participants must book hotel and transport themselves.

Registration: send an e-mail to jcj@efterskolerne.dk

Organizer:
The Danish Efterskole Association
Jakob Clausager Jensen, Head of international relations
jcj@efterskolerne.dk, +45 22361153
Farvergade 27 H, 2., 1463 Copenhagen K, Denmark

The activity is partly financed by Erasmus+

Four days program about teaching German as a secondary language for European teachers within lower secondary schools.

Program:

Tuesday May 21st, 2024
Program at the Embassy

Wednesday May 22nd, 2024
Program at the Embassy

Thursday May 23rd, 2024
Program at the Embassy

Tuesday May 24th, 2024
Program at the Embassy

Practical information
Where:  The Danish Embassy in Berlin

When:  May 21-24th, 2024

Participants: teachers that teach German as a secondary language at European lower secondary schools (students age 15-17)

Course fee: 320 Euro - includes course fee and meals described in the program.
Transport and hotel is not included in the price - participants must book hotel and transport themselves.

Registration: send an e-mail to jcj@efterskolerne.dk

Organizer:
The Danish Efterskole Association
Jakob Clausager Jensen, Head of international relations
jcj@efterskolerne.dk, +45 22361153
Farvergade 27 H, 2., 1463 Copenhagen K, Denmark

The activity is partly financed by Erasmus+

Three days course and contact seminar focusing on international cooperation, class/student exchanges, and Erasmus+ within lower secondary school education – pupils age 15-17.

Program:

Monday October 7th, 2024
Program at the Embassy

Tuesday October 10th, 2023
Program at the Embassy

Wednesday October 11th, 2023 - School visits:
School visit: in smaller groups we visit different lower secondary schools in Berlin 

Practical information
Where:  The Danish Embassy in Berlin

When:  October 7th-10th, 2024

Participants: European lower secondary school teachers and leaders (students age 15-17)

Course fee: 100 Euro - includes course fee and meals described in the program.
Transport and hotel is not included in the price - participants must book hotel and transport themselves.

Registration:  https://podio.com/webforms/28154802/2224265 (MAXIMUM TWO PERSONS PER SCHOOL)

Organizer:
The Danish Efterskole Association
Jakob Clausager Jensen, Head of international relations
jcj@efterskolerne.dk, +45 22361153
Farvergade 27 H, 2., 1463 Copenhagen K, Denmark

The activity is partly financed by Erasmus+