Welcome reception

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Welcome reception

• Mercury Unia Hotel
• Lublin Poland 25. August 2005

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• Why are we here?
• To meet students from different countries and
  exchange experiences and knowledge
• To discuss and learn about major international
  educational politics
• To transmit the view of European teacher students
  to decision makers
• To evaluate the feasibility of a further teacher
  student cooperation

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• What is in the conference folder?
• A map of Lublin
• General information
• Program
• About the speakers
• List of participants
• Abstracts
• Definition list
• Groupwork guidelines
• List of workgroups
• Travel cost form

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• The conference will be held at the Agricultural
  University congress centre

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• Program
• Thursday 25.08
• 12.00-16.00 Arrival of participants
• 16.30-18.00 Welcome reception
• 18.00-19.00 Dinner

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• Friday 26.08
• 0730-0900 Breakfast
• 09.00-1030 Teachers Matter Attracting,
  Developing and Retaining Effective Teachers
  (Paulo Santiago)
• 10.30-11.00 Coffee
• 11.00-12.30 Workgroup discussions (National
  characteristics of teacher education, pros and
  cons)
• 12.30-14.00 Lunch
• 14.00-15.00 Is the sky the limit in educational
  performance? (Andreas Schleicher)
• 15.00-1600 PISA and Education from the Teachers
  perspective (Guntars
• Catlaks)
• 16.00-16.30 Coffee
• 16.30-18.00 Workgroup discussions (The status of
  present teacher education in relation to the Pisa
  Objectives)
• 18.00-19.00 Dinner

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• Saturday 27.08
• 0730-0900 Breakfast
• 09.00-1030 Schooling for Tomorrow (Francisco
  Benavides)
• 10.30-11.00 Coffee
• 11.00-12.30 Workgroup discussions (Future
  perspectives in European teacher education)
• 12.30-14.00 Lunch
• 14.00-16.00 Excursion to the World War II
  concentration camp of Majdanek
• 16.00-16.30 Coffee
• 16.30-18.00 Workgroup discussions (Racism,
  xenophobia and integration in the European school
  system)
• 18.00-21.00 Dinner in the old city centre

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• Sunday 28.08
• 0730-0900 Breakfast
• 09.00-1030 European student cooperation and ESIB
  (Thomas Nilsson)
• 10.30-11.00 Coffee
• 11.00-12.30 ETSA Assembly (The students view on
  common goals/values in European techers
  education)
• 12.30-14.00 Lunch evaluation
• 14.00-16.00 Participants depart

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• It is important that all the deligates read the
  abstracts and the groupwork guidelines before
  each lecture
• This way the groupwork will give more interesting
  results
• The groupwork reports will make up the core of
  the final conference report which will be send to
  all major international educational stakeholders
  such as EI, ESIB and LISTEN member unions, EU and
  the OECD.

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• We wish you all an enjoyable and productive
• conference
• Project organisers