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Why and how internationalisation? The why has been already discussed in the previous sessions: how it for example enforces your understanding of your own national identity and develops your thinking and helps you become an active global citizen. Now we listed our own school's internationalisation activities, and there were actually more than we would have thought. We got some ideas, too, from the other participants.
I didn't take any photos today - too busy enjoying the scene. Here is a short video clip from one little project we prepared once for our spring happening. We had our language students play out a short scene from a movie in the language they study, and made a compilation of them. In this clip, two foreign students, from Germany and Italy, who are learning Finnish as a second language, play a scene from a Finnish movie. On the background you see the Lapua river banks. It is early spring and the landscape is rather bare. Lapua is a small town, and it is sometimes difficult to see how we would really internationalise our activities there - but today was an eye-opener, we do a lot already and have many possibilities of developing our international work further.
(If you are curious to know what they say: "Lapua is the best place in the world." "Can't you find anything wrong with Lapua?")

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Today we had the possibility to work on our school‘s curriculum for internationalisation. I learned especially through the exchange with my colleagues. Thank you for so many new ideas. Some of them I am going to try to implement in my school.

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Today we got a survey about international work. What do we have to do to make our school more international? In the activity we had time to think about how much internationalisation we have implemented in our school. I found that we are already doing quite a lot to this topic but we can always more. In the follow up we exchanged our outcome with the other members. Through that I got more ideas that I will try to put in practice in our school. The exchange was very enriching.

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The most usefull experience of this day for me was the opportunity to analyze our own school internalization practises, because it is the field, which as we thought is not so much focused on. Despite of this, we understood, that we are doing quite a lot in this sphere, but we need to create our own system, that the internalization of curriculum would be more systematic. It was very interesting to listen to practises of other countries, and to listen to their experiences.

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When I think about the activities of the day, the idea of ​​"Today's children are the  tomorrow's global citizens" revolves around my mind. How does the school prepare pupils for such a future? What are the curriculum, what are the priorities and objectives of the school? What skills and values ​​do we focus on? A lot of things change very quickly in life - information, significance of knowledge, technology and others. It is very important that schools develop general competences, not just specific knowledge in a narrow field. Schools must focus on fostering personal growth, educating students who will be prepared to engage consciously  and responsibly in open world activities.

It was a very useful workshop activity. We reflected on our practices, the international experiences of our schools, especially international project and exchange program activities, and inter-school collaboration. It was interesting to hear the experiences of schools in other countries, to compare similarities and differences, to discuss about the challenges and opportunities in developing internationalization processes at school.

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Open your school to the world. It enriches whole school, motivates teachers, increases students self esteem, challenges them and help to develop their talents.

Today it was interesting to hear about other’s schools and what kind of international actions people are doing. In my school it would be important that we would fill this kind of form what we did today and collect the information together. It would be good to know what is already happening and what international practices and substances people are doing within their subjects. I started to think that I really don’t know that much what’s happening. I know my own projects and subject, but we have many international projects going on. Should them be better informed? What resources have we not yet released to benefit? We could learn more from each others. Could there be shared understanding about what kind of global citizens we are educating?

Open windows. Taken from here Guadelope is my photo of today. :)

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Today I recognize that we still do a lot off things for internationalizing at our school. I learned what other schools do. Even that it is possible to start new projects at school over curricular with sport or food activities for example. And that internationalizing is at the start but it is not signed as this specially and so it is not in the mind.