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Annalisa
Day be day I acquired new knowledges. During the lesson about the 6 session I appreciated that everyone shared their experience and their point of view with the other members.  I took notes about the theme of the international policy. I'm rather anxious to share what I learnt with the other members of my association. I will have a good feedback when I go back. Today me and Saverio talked about a international dimension (a new vision for the association), it's a bet because it's a big topic that includes a lot of themes, but it's not impossible to realize. On my opinion the way to obtain the aims is first of all the collaboration among the members and then with others schools or association in Europe.

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This morning we were taken to Îlet Gosier, a small island separated from "mainland" Grande-Terre by a narrow stretch of sea the locals use to swim across. There we set our classroom. The session's main topic was about the internationalisation of curriculum and a school's international policy, which we had to adapt as usual to our reality, focusing on the aims and objectives of such a policy. It was very useful for Annalisa and me to have the chance to concentrate on a theme that needs to be further developed in our Association, and very pleasant to listen to our collegues' ideas, experiences and suggestions.

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Regarding our future working on internationalisation today's session was very useful (I hope). We got many valuable advice and ideas how to make it work and present the ideas to the other teachers and school managers. It might not be an easy task but when approaching the topic with help of the theoretical framework and the same forms we filled in on the course I think it won't fall through. We had good conversation in the group and my thoughts cleared up. It is a good idea to start and go on with the activity we already have and introduce the ideas to improve the ways of internationalisation in our school.
Our school is multicultural but it doesn't mean it it is international. It is first imporstant to define the term and ask why we want our internationalise our students and school we are working in. All the members of the work community should agree on importance of internationalisation and work on it.
There is no international coordinator or even a team in our school which is quite strange in a modern school.

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Today I got a lot of practical advice in how to establish „internationalization“ at our school. I found the information we got quite handy and could get a clearer vision on where, how and most importantly WHY! to start with the „international work“. I really think a short and on-point „international policy“ for our school will be a good starting point, as I know our headstaff and colleagues are already very open minded to the topic and will probably agree to it. I think it may be our job to secure, that there will be not only made a decision towards the „international policy“ but also measures taken to implement the described aims and objectives. Therefore some kind of „internationalization committee“ or interest group should be formed. I also think, it would be good to get some of the younger teachers on board to ensure a long-term impact on the school life and build some long-lasting connections to other schools.

I consider this process to be a work of a longer period of time that should however be realized steadily and transparently towards and together with the college (and students).
Besides that I see great importance for our collegues to experience as much international work as possible in the meantime to enforce their enthusiasm with the topic. That is why – besides promoting the Erasmus teacher training! - I appreciate greatly that, in the name of baby steps, Dajana and Maija will start a small project with their classes on returning home- who knows what great examples will be set and where it will grow from there.

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After the weekend it was a bit difficult get into the topic again. But I think we managed to get a deeper understanding what „internatinalisation the curriculum“ really means and especially how to organise it.

Until now there haven't been many international activities or structures to develop a internationalisation of the curriculum. So it was very importend to think about what an international policy for our school could look like. Why do we need to open up and become more international? What is the benefit for our students and us? What are our aims and how could we reach them?

I really enjoyed the discussion about it and I got really inspired by the activities and ideas everyone presented. But the best of the day was, when Maija mentioned an idea to start a cooperation between our classes.

It really made my day and I think it shows the relevance of this project. We start to create a classroom with a door to Finland.

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It feels just like the whole topic of today´s session was about our school! There are lots of previous projects, enterprises, contacts done before but we obviously have no stucture in our doings.
We need a structured, written international policy with a commitee or named team to be in charge of organizating activities and gathering the information.  We also need to make all work done visible by some easy on-line method so that all of our staff can see what the othes are up to.
These are the frames within we need to discuss what are our priority aims considering the internatiolisation of curriculum and schooling and then start to plan activities to achieve those aims.
I found today's session very inspiring.   Especially when we managed to make plans for tiny little co-operative "project" with Dajana :)

"I want to see interaction and communication. Not necessarily words spelled right, but communication"

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We have actively gone on Comenius studyvisits and erasmus+ courses in my school for 7 of the last 8 years. Still - it has always been one project at a time and it has lacked a long term plan or vision. I haven't thought of that earlier but today that part became clear. Not only will that plan be a strenght in upcoming applications but it will be something that will be open and clear to everyone in the staff, also something to put among the material we go through while mentoring new employees about the systems and values in our school. The reason why I feel that this is very important is because a good organisation has a shared idea, vision and clear thoughts about what to do and how. It is not relying on one or a few persons. For me it is clear that I am like food, I have a best before date and for me that date is approaching in my current school. But for me it is very important that my school is a working/learning organisation that has everything needed no matter who leaves. Since I want the school to be an active operator on the international stage this is one of the areas we need to find our shared thoughts, values and vision. So right now I feel kind of energetic since I found a new piece to my puzzle and that takes me one step further again.