Visser t Hooft Lyceum

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Visser t Hooft Lyceum

• Secondary General Education
• ELOS School
• City of Leiden
• The Netherlands
• 2007-2008

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Europe as a Learning Opportunity for Schools

• Our school
• - uses tools of the Information Age
• - is part of a collaborative learning environment
  
• - embeds European and Global contexts into the
  Dutch curriculum
• - works within a network of schools in Europe to
  develop European citizenship education framework
  of key competencies and portfolio / Europass /
  Certilingua

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ELOS knowledge!

• CHECKLIST EUROPEAN / INTERNATIONAL COM 2nd grade
• I KNOW
• how many countries are member of EU
• of the EU member states the capitals, population
  sizes, main geographical facts, languages spoken
• the general outline of history of EU who is
  Monnet, 9th May and the Schumann declaration,
  25th March Treaty of Rome, Treaty of Maastricht
  2001, 6 founding member states of EU, 9 new EU
  member states between 1957 and 2007, 10 new EU
  member states in 2004, 2 new EU members of 2007
  and which are the candidate countries, which EU
  countries have euro and which havent
• what UNESCO is
• articles 1-6 of Charter of Human Rights
• what we celebrate 21st of September
• what LLLP is
• 8 Millenium Development Goals by heart,
• what Fair Trade and a business plan is
• what sustainable development is
• what Dutch Chambres of Commerce do

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ELOS skills!

• I CAN
• Collect, organize and present information on
  European and International affairs
• participate in European and International
  projects
• share knowledge on the Netherlands in relation to
  Europe the rest of the world
• use internet for chats, forums, searches
• write and speak English at A2 level
• write and speak another language than Dutch or
  English at A1 level (German / French / Spanish /
  )
• make an effort to learn basic language chunks of
  the partnerschool (Nepal / Turkey / Portugal /
  )
• take part in mooting and do a short public speech
  in English

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Elos attitude!

• I UNDERSTAND
• that persons from a different culture might act
  differently, because they have different norms
  and values
• that I need to respect, verbally and
  non-verbally, the opinion and behaviour of people
  from a different cultural background
• that my identity depends on others
• that in order to work together well in a group I
  have to take responsibility for my share in the
  group
• that to know the other well, means I will have to
  listen and ask questions in order to understand
  the other better

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HOW?

• Project-based teaching
• Cross-curricular collaborative learning
• 3 teachers for 60 pupils
• 90 minutes a week for pupils ages 12-15
• Pupils 16-18 no clear structures yet debating
• Every week different groups / tasks
• Flexibility and Creativity

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Themes of VHL

• Personal angle ME, YOU (my choices, my culture)
• School lt--gt Local Community
• The Netherlands part of EU unity in diversity
• The Netherlands part of UN One World/Global
  awareness/action on Environment/Global Peace
  Agenda
• Active/Interactive/Practical/Realshared end
  product
• Collaborative angle WE

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Ongoing projects

• Comenius MobilID jointly building the moodle
  website on eCitizenship in 6 age levels
  (eScience, eCulture, eSports, eVocation)
• ENO Project Environment Online - Tree Planting
  Event 21st September
• Springday Europe 9th May / EU Language Day 26th
  September
• BEST Project iEarn - Chambres of Commerce City
  of Leiden pupils creating their own virtual
  companies by manufacturing recycled products or
  rendering social services. Teams of 2 classes of
  2 different continents digital divide / fair
  trade / sustainable development. Participants
  still welcome!

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Evaluation and Learning Objectives

• New collaborative workforms in the classroom
  eMagazine, Digidebate, blogging, podcasting,
  wikis
• New evaluation methods --gt portfolio which/how
  and who (pupils teachers) --gt checklists based
  on EIO-Framework / key competencies --gt tests
  experimenting
• Exchanging good practices
• in our own school, with other European
  schools, within the national bilingual and
  European Elos-networks meetings, meetings,
  meetingslearning, learning, learning Pupils
  learn and so do teachers, Life Long Learning
  Programme

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Contact Details Mrs. Marleen Spierings--gt
sg_at_vhl.nl

• www.vreemdetaal.nl/moodle
• www.e-citizenship.org