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This course I learned about the importance of internationalisation. I learned an important question from Rita: "what have you learned today?" I learned that that it's important to prepare our students to become a global citizen. To make them understand the links between their own lives and those of people around the world and work together towards a more just and sustainable world where power and resources are more equally shared. I will use the topics I studied this course and the booklet to convince my school authorities to expand our internationalisation program and find more schools than we already cooperate with (in France and Germany).

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I came to Guadeloupe for input for our new internationalization policy plan. In a completely different environment, culture and nature, I quickly came up with ideas. For example, I want to describe in more detail why internationalization is important for the school and how this enriches the learning process of our students. I can use the literature from the booklet for that. We can involve the environment of the school much more in the learning process and map out what our own identity is and then learn about other cultures. What I also take with me is that we need to involve the whole school much more in the policy, so teachers first, students and parents. I also want to expand our cooperation with our partner schools by using job shadowing. This way they can help with replacement lessons and give lessons about their culture, a very good idea! The competences we have discussed can receive more attention in our curriculum and also in our policy plan, just like the global citizen themes of session 4. In short, a lot of valuable input from the course booklet and ideas for activities that we have during the various classrooms on the island learned. Learning through experience! Thank you Rita for sharing your knowledge and your home.

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“Learn through experience”

The days on Guadeloupe have passed quickly.  During the course I saw and learned a lot.  The history of Guadeloupe, especially the past of slavery, has stayed with me.  Life on Guadeloupe, the distribution of the population across the island, the music, the food and the social local population are experiences that I will not soon forget.

The importance of internationalization of the curriculum was highlighted during the course.  I have gained several ideas that I can incorporate into my lessons and in the school.  The visit to the school was also very nice.  I always find it very interesting to visit schools in other countries.

Learning in and from nature is a fantastic experience and something I would like to do more often.  From working in the rainforest among the mongoose to discovering the underwater world of the Caribbean.  There is plenty to learn from nature.

“Think globally act locally”

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The last 10 days have passed by so quickly and it is hard to put an emphasis on a certain day of experience because they will all last lifelong in my mind and my heart.
First of all this course taught me alot about how our German as a second language learners might feel coming into a totally new surrounding when starting a new life in Germany.  Though I speak and understand a little French I often felt helpless not being understood or not being able to say what I really mean. It is a stressful situation and often I had a headache because my brain was exhausted dealing with 3 lanuages at once.
I see the situation of our students at home from a totally different point of you and consider this experience as a great gift to improve myself!!!
I also learned alot about myself, I will try to keep it in mind when I feel overworked and stressed. The people living here have the ability to enjoy life, they seem not to care too much on their problems but try to see the positive things. I will try to be a little more like that, too!
I felt relieved that Rita considered the fact that we are all English as a second language learners and that she gave us the opportunity to read the article in our own path.
All in all this course showed me that I can count on my collegue no matter what, we can rely on each other, that feels good. Also becoming one group with the other teachers was an amazing experience, I will never forget!!!

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The 2 key sentences for me this week were.
“Think globally act locally” and “learning through experience”
I learned that the most important thing is to, embrace your heritage and get to know other cultures and the importance of internationalisation. Further more, I think that I leave Guadeloupe as another person.
First of all it helped me to get unstressed, secondly my perspective about other cultures has changed and I can use the experiences that I encountered on this beautiful island in my lessons and teach my students.

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This course in Guadeloupe was a wonderful experience I will never forget.

Everyday we were in a different classroom where Rita thougt us the theory of planning an international project, the culture, multicultarism, the meaning of music to Guadeloupe culture, global citizenship, internationalisation, international policy and key competences.
That in combination with all the excursions in a different classroom everyday where we discovered the beautiful of nature and the culture of Guadeloupe. I learned a lot and take home a lot of new ideas to work on with my students. And we can expand the international projects in our school.

The activity I learned the most about was the day at L’îlet Caret. With the activity linked to the key competences and the presented project plan ideas.

These quotes I will always remember and apply in my daily life and work:
* Think global, act local
* You learn through experience.
* You can’t stress about what you can’t control
* The teacher is the most important person

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Through this last two weeks I learned quiet a lot - for me as a teacher, but for me as a person, too.
I experienced how it feels like to be in a totally different country with another climate, different animals and plants and a language I neither talk nor understand. I now have a true understanding for my students, who had to come to Germany and even not could decide that by theirselves. Many of them had to come because of a war or financial reasons, and the most of them are so hard-working every day!
I‘ve learned really a lot about a totally different lifestyle than there is in Germany and I admire them for their friendlyless, kindness and their relaxed mindset! I now see a lot of things, that happened at school with my students, with different eyes and I think that I‘ve really learned through this wonderful experience to try to have a better understanding for different situations at school that might have been caused of interculturel distinctions and the way, everyone of us grew up.
I‘ve also learned, that even though you are good in speaking a language (like English in my case), it is exhausting talking a whole day in a foreign language and the words might not come easy, if you want to express e.g. feelings or deeper thoughts. That experience can really be frustrating and I want to consider that more with my students in the future!

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Taking this course I understood something of how the world looks from different national and cultural perspectives. We are learning now how to get a global outlook and to become a global citizen in order to decide how we might want to act in our lives. "Think globally, act locally" now is a new outlook how to make a claim about the nature and  to scope a moral obligations. We also have to encourage young people to become responsible, to become global citizen bringing international learning into our classrooms. As a teacher we also need to develop such things like Identity, sustainable  living , cultural belonging. We acquired all these significant knowledge and skills in well-thought-out conditions - an international team, a cultural context that is fundamentally different from my culture, daily outdoor activities. This is the strongest side of this course. You learn more in 10 days than in 1 year of study.

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In the last few days during this course I have seen and learned a lot. We have done a lot and got to know the culture. The history of Guadaloupe about slavery has also stayed with me. It is confronting to see how this has been seen as normal for years and what impact it has and has had on the population.

This was my first internationalization course and I learned a lot from it. I now know how things are going at other schools and what their approach and vision are. I also thought it was very cool and good to look into a school here in Guadaloupe. Then you immediately see completely different things than with us in the Netherlands.

I also learned a lot about nature. I didn't know much about it and therefore saw and learned a lot more. The rainforest and the underwater world is impressively beautiful and how nature can maintain and reproduce itself.

The most important two sentences that have stuck with me and that I want to add right away in my lessons are;
- Think globally, act locally
- You learn through experience

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Taking this course in Guadeloupe was an unforgettable experience. Rita taught us new things every day by sharing theoretical knowledge, but especially by showing us and experiencing things on the island and linking assignments about key competencies to it. The atmosphere in the group was open, friendly and there was enough time to get to know each other better. I am going back to the Netherlands with many new ideas for further expanding internationalization within our school. The friendly and resilient people, the beautiful nature and the rich culture of Guadeloupe make you grateful and humble at the same time. Guadeloupe has (again) given me a lot of self-awareness, so that I, as a person and professional, return home with more wisdom.