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Visiting Pointe des Chateaux and surviving the climb all the way up to the top felt like a personally victory. Standing there, looking down, I realized how far we have come during our trip. On my first day, I had very little knowledge of internalization and how this could be incorporated and here I was standing on a cliff, brainstorming about various projects.

Our school already has a policy so the article did not provide any clear additions. I do think that the challenge for our team is to create an international project which includes far more teachers than the already existing and unchanging group.

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At Pinte de Chateaux today we had a talk about the international policy that an international school must have according to the Erasmus+ policy. This policy contains specific Aims and Objectives, based on EU standards. This aims and objectives are the following things:

Aims
-Global dimension embed within the school
-Prepare students for a life in a divers global society
-Work with global partners

Objectives
Integrate global dimension into the school curriculum
Developing awareness of differences and similarities between cultures
Involve the staff, not only the teachers
Further develop relationships with partner schools
Research possible involvement in the EU
Promote international vocational links within the aims of the policy
Extend the benefits of the global by including feeder primary schools

For our school, OSG De Ring van Putten, I think the most important part lies within global dimension within the school. We already do a lot of international oriented projects and lessons within the school. The thing is, the idea of embracing the thought and ideas of internationalization is still not the main priority within the school board. Once everyone in the school has the awareness of how important it is to integrate internationalization in the total school curriculum, then we can start to write a policy and implement it top-down!

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Today we visited the Pointe des Chateaux. This is the eastern tip of the island. Together we climbed to the top of the rock. A nice group activity where you try to get up as easily as possible.

After the hike we drove back a little. At the beach we have discussed our international policy. Many points have already been discussed and used at our school, but we have also received many useful advices to improve this. Our international school policy must match the Erasmus+ policy and the objectives they have drawn up. This can be used as a guide when setting up a new project. We have also looked at the specific objectives and priorities.

Objectives:

- Key competences and skills

- Quality improvements, innovation excellence and internationalization

- European lifelong learning and modernization of education

- International dimension
- Teaching and learning of languages

Priorities:

- Basic and transversal skills

- ICT

- Recognition tools
- Skills development

Quote of the day: Be responsible global citizens able to engage with issues of equity, social justice and sustainability.

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Session 8 builds on the basis that we had from the audit we did in one of the earlier sessions. The examples provided are clear, but in my eyes they fall short in some areas to be useful for our school. I think in terms of aims and worded policy we are already aiming high.

The audit to me revealed more practical issues that arise from policy that we already profess at our school. It's a lack of overview on the amount of work we already do (which we should capture in policy, examples help here), to enthusing other teachers and giving them clarity on why internationalization is necessary (which written policy will highlight the importance of). In both these issues it's helpful to put it down in policy, but the practical application of that policy is something I struggle with. How to tackle those issues still eludes me.

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After a walk to Pointe Chateaux ( with a beautiful view) we discussed about international school policy.

It is important to understand complex international interdependencies in the global economy, to respect different values and beliefs and to enjoy regular contact with students and adults living in different countries.

Therefore it is necessary to improve the teaching and learning of languages and to enhance the international dimension of education and training.

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Today we started the eighth day of the educational session and we talked about international policy,goals of the purpose and serious work between different cultures and interest new ideas and innovative in the different types of education project ,as our school has a participation in project s Erasmus Plus we are two to rake a new legislation for the purpose of developing curriculum and exchange of and ideas with common countries

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Today we discussed the importance of having an international policy in our school plan. Rita suggested we create one using the examples from the reader as a reference. An A4 with all the relevant information should be enough. Below an example of an international policy I put together with the help of the examples.

Session 8 - international policy

Introduction:

Rationale

Through the inclusion of an international focus in OSG De Ring van Putten, we are able to offer our pupils a range of experiences that will enhance their learning and raise awareness of their national and international identity.

Aims: EU objectives

- Raise awareness of environment issues other than those in our locality through joint projects.

- Encourage interest and motivation through the provision of first-hand experiences of life in another country.

- Promote communication through ICT and social media (What's app, Facebook, School website etc.)

- Develop cross-curricular activities with an international theme for students from year 1 / 2/ 3/ 4/ 5 / 6* (choose)

- Student / staff visits to places of cultural interest in the Netherlands and abroad.

- To actively encourage the study of foreign languages for all our students by offering a range of appropriate language options.

Objectives: EU priorities

- developing basic and transversal skills

- enhancing Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) uptake in teaching and learning.

- promoting stronger coherence between different EU and national transparency and recognition tools.

- skills development through partnerships and cost-sharing

- attainment of young people

- revising and strengthening the professional profile of the teaching professions.

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We had an interesting talk about the international policy at our school. We already have this but we got really usefull advices to improve this. We also talked about the Erasmus+ objectives and priorities and how we could use the Erasmus+ program in our international policy. The really usefull examples we got we can use in the future to improve the internationalisation in our school, during international projects but also in our curriculum and lessons.

We discussed our international policy during  a hiking activity at the end of Guadeloupe: Pointe des Chateaux, a small mountain at the east side of the Island. During the activity our mind was open for a critical thinking and I think we got some great ideas to improve the international projects, curriculum and lesson at our school.

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Today we went to " Pointe des Châteaux".We had a beautiful view at the seaside with many high rocks.After that we went to another beautiful spot at the beauch where we had a barbecue made by our teacher. We also discussed about the proiorities of the Erasmus + Program. We will discuss later at our school how we can use the goals and priorities of the Erasmus + Program in setting up an international policy. As a French teacher my heart literraly wants to jump out of my chest when I noticed that one of the objectives of The Erasmus + Program is to improve teaching and learning languages and to promote the EU 's broad linguistic divirsity and intercultural awareness.

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Reflection on our eigth session of the Classroom with a view on the world project

Today we have talked about the goals and the priorities of the Erasmus+ Program and how to use those in setting up an international policy on your local school.

Because most of the external funding for international projects is coming from this Erasmus+ Program it is important to make sure that your international policy on your school aligns with the aim and goals of Erasmus+ (at least if you want to stake a claim on the money from this program).

So if you’re setting up a new international policy it’s probably a good idea to not just do the audit we talked about in session 6, but also check and see which of the Erasmus+ goals feel like a good match to what your school is trying to achieve with their internationalization, so that you are in a good place for when you start applying for projects.

Unfortunately for me, this is not very useful, as I’m not really a policymaker, but it’s certainly something that I will try to keep in mind, if my opinion is requested.

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Today We have enjoyed of a tasted bbq in a beautiful beach. Now it's more clear for methe meaning of International Policy and the differences with the european developement project. Also I have been able to start the Introduction, Aims, and objectives of the International Policy of my school. It has been really useful. I will remember the advises of Rita about not complicated documents because We have alredy given the Erasmus + Specific Objectives and Priorities. Let's use them