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Comenius 2.2.A

EU TRAIN - European training

for student teachers in science

Physics and chemistry trainees

Coaching for exchange trainees

3.12.2007

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Introduction

• Name and studies?

• Where are you going to, and when?

• Which are your contacts with your hosts until this?

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Partners in this project

• Bulgaria

• Estonia

• Finland

• Poland

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Before you will leave

• Do you have questions?

You may find advice in the website of EU TRAIN project

http://www.helsinki.fi/luma/eutrain/mobility/

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Contact your host school

• In most cases the school will contact you first,

but if this does not happen within a couple of weeks,

you should take the initiative.

• Contact by e-mail (and/or telephone)

as well as by letter if necessary.

• Letter of Conformation for an Incoming Exchange Student

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Mobility Guide

for Comenius practical teacher training

• CONTENTS:

A. Before leaving for the training

B. Integration into the school

C. Integration into the local community

D. In and beyond the classroom

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Student Exchange CertificateBefore you leave you will receive a written certificate of

• your grant

• time period of the exchange

• your program in the host institute

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Agreement of study program

• you will make a written agreement with your home

university concerning your study program abroad

• the host university will give you a diploma of your

training

• the host school should take an insurance for you

(usually liability insurance)

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Insurances

• European health insurance card:

http://www.kela.fi/in/internet/suomi.nsf/Docs/0908011

12236EH?OpenDocument

• Travel insurance

Take with you a letter in English where the coverage

of your insurance can be seen.

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Health

• take needed vaccinations and visit a dentist

• take the prescription of your spectacles with you

• customs regulations:

(which medicines you may take with you)

http://www.tulli.fi/fi/_Yksityishenkilöt/01/_matkustajat/Inde

x.jsp

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Other things to remember

• Buy your travel tickets

• Arrangements of your accommodation

• Take into account national festivals and holidays

• Brush up your English

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Take with you

• valid passport or ID card and student card

• needed documents and copies

• passport photos

• insurance documents

• prescriptions

• clothes

• Finnish gifts

• Finnish - X - Finnish dictionary

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Housing• Fill in Housing application form

• Guarantee rent may be possible

• Read carefully the rules of the dormitory and follow them

• Look at http://citizens.eu.int/

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Comenius The objective of teacher training abroad

• to compare the way in which the school practice of

future science teachers is organised in your home

and host countries

• to find the best practices and to identify common

needs of trainees and trainers

• to improve your knowledge of another European

education system, country, language, and your

teaching skills

• to improve pupils’ motivation in studying physics and

chemistry, even in foreign language, and increase

interest in trainee’s country and culture

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Comenius Trainee’s tasks and working hours

• europa.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/socrates/comenius/tools_en.html

• to take part in teaching practice in a group of two or more

• to follow / give / take part in preparing and feed-back of 12-16 lessons in a week, 3 weeks

• to shadow physics / chemistry student teachers at university lessons e.g. didactics or do laboratory work

• to make log book / portfolio for writing down aims, plans and evaluation as well as your reflection on the practice

• to help trainers and trainees to prepare demonstrations and laboratory works

• to take part in school and student activities

• to give information of your own country

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Trainee

School

EU CommissionNational Agency

Host partner

Agreement

Engagement

Accommodation

Financing agreement

Finance

Induction

Mobility

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The school will give you supervisors: a mentor and a tutor

• Host partner helps you to find accommodation

• Your mentor will help you to become acquainted with the school

• Regular meetings with your mentor

•Descriptive analysis, studies and indicators about national

education systems:

•http://www.eurydice.org (Eurydice database)

•in Finnish: http://www.oph.fi/SubPage.asp?path=1,439,3131

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Survival course

Before the mobility

a 24 hr intensive course (6 days, 4 hr/day) in English will be arranged for you if you need it.

When arriving at the host institution

a 18 hr orientative course (3 days) will be arranged, including elementary studies in the language of the host country and knowledge of the local history and culture.

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ComeniusFinancing agreement

• Read carefully all financing papers

• Grant

• You will get 80% before you leave

• The rest 20% will be given after you have given the final

report

• Final grant will not exceed your real costs

• Give final report to EU TRAIN in two weeks after return

• Travel insurance accepted only for the period of training

• Original receipts, used tickets, copy of the insurance paper

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Integration

• Online cultural training resource for study abroad:

http://www3.uop.edu/sis/culture/pub/banner.html

• Be adaptable and open to new experiences

• Get acquainted with the host country, culture and language

• Keep your sense of humour

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ComeniusPractical info

• taxation: www.vero.fi and

http://www.vero.fi/nc/doc/download.asp?id=2385;42493

• financial aid for students

http://www.kela.fi/in/internet/suomi.nsf/Docs/040601104658IL?OpenDocument

• www.airsafe.com

• http://www.maailmalle.net

• Address of a discussion group: http://nyytinet.nyyti.fi

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• extract from police records:

www.oikeus.fi/oikeusrekisterikeskus/18232.htm

• housing: www.esn.org and www.casaswap.com

• pisa:

www.minedu.fi/etusivu/arkisto/2005/2403/pisa.html

www.oph.fi/english/frontpage.asp?path=447

www.pisa.oecd.org/pages/0,2987,en_32252351_32235731_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

http://ktl.jyu.fi/pisa/

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ComeniusAdditional information

• Education boad:

www.oph.fi/SubPage.asp?path=1,439

• Sokrates-program:

http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/socrates/

socrates_en.html

• European Union: http://europa.eu/abc/index_fi.htm

• reports from previous years:

http://www.cimo.fi/Resource.phx/cimo/sokrates/come

nius/harjoittelu.htx

• mail your final report, so that we may add it in our

www-service

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ComeniusFinal Report

http://www.cimo.fi/Resource.phx/cimo/comeniuslomakkeet.htx

1. General information

2. Reception - the quality of the …

3. What have you learned?

4. Any improvement in …

5. What do you believe that students at the host establishment have

gained from you

6. Any practical problems

7. Any suggestions for improvements

8. What was the most benefit for the host institution?

9. Recognition of traineeship by home institution (in ECTS)

10. What new acquired skills do you value most?

Written final report will be sent also to the National Agency of the host country

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• Postal address: Helsingin normaalilyseo

PL 38, 00014 Helsingin yliopisto

Contact person:

• Seija Valtonen

• e-mail: seija.valtonen@helsinki.fi

• Tel / fax +358 9 8735087 (home)

• Mob. +358 50 5246 081

• Postal address: Jyväskylän normaalilyseo

PL 35, 40014 Jyväskylän yliopisto

Contact person:

• Pekka Parkkinen

• e-mail: pekka. parkkinen@jyu.edu.fi

• tel. +358 14 2601908 (office)

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If there will be problems take contact to your home

university or to the National Agency of the host

country

Addresses:

http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/socrates/nat

-est_en.html

The Finnish embassies you can find from the address

http://formin.finland.fi/suomi/

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Europass

www.europass.fi

Europass consists of five documents which prove abilities of

students and workers in Europe. The documents have the

same formula in all EU/ETA countries.

You may use Europass when you apply for education or job.