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I find the course really professionally organized. The places for our sessions were really well chosen, because they give you energy and motivation to think, reconsider, to collect ideas, to find new connections, to find new ideas, to find reasons again, why do we do something in the classroom with the students, because with all our additional work, we forget sometimes, what is the purpose of our occupation. I want my students would find a challenge in learning, to be more aware of their identity, culture, to be proud on themselves, to be responsible global citizens. I need to be a good example of that, and that is what the course gave me.
The strength for me was having the sessions outside of the four walls, organized as workshops. I am strengthened after the course in awareness of my own culture, the importance of it, even though we were discovering foreign cultures. I think I will now more easily pass and defend with more confidence important issues to our school headmaster, why should we go on with the school internationalisation.
By taking this course I became more aware of my own identity, my own strengths, I feel the importance of my own culture, I got many ideas from Rita and other participants, how and why to go on with the internationalisation in our school. The surroundings filled me with positive energy for my future good work in educating young people.

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These 10 days have been overwhelming and I have learnt and experienced way more that I could have ever imagined in advance and in my wildest imagination!

We started off with our personal identities and national identities. Identities are plural and fluid and even if I have discussed these topics a lot, there is always something new to discover. Rita’s wise words gave a deeper perspective into this topic. I learnt new things about myself and realized again how important it is to know your roots in order to have wings. Everything begins from one person and the passion to make a change is the key. We as teachers can truly change the world!

Guadeloupe is a wonderful place to learn about multiculturalism! People from different cultures and backgrounds are living together in peace despite the extremely difficult and violent history of this island. I learnt more about slavery and was deeply touched during our visit to the memorial.

I have gained loads of new, mind blowing experiences. The nature of Guadeloupe is amazing! The walks in the rainforest, the impressive waterfalls, the underwater life and the small paradise islands have given me pure moments of happiness. Rita’s knowledge of nature has impressed me many times in our changing classrooms.

The heartwarming friendliness of people here has also made a huge impression. As a French teacher I’ve of  course enjoyed speaking French and learning new words and expressions. My Créole is not fluent, but I got a hint of that too.

I really enjoyed the discussions within our group. It has been great to get to know colleagues from different countries and cities in my homecountry.  Sharing ideas and perspectives made it possible to get a deeper understanding of all the topics on this course. Thank you all very much for that!

The person who created the atmosphere and made this all possible is our charismatic, intelligent and truly a global citizen Rita. Her valuable ideas, concrete tips and most importantly, open and loving attitude towards everything and everybody is one of the greatest lessons I’ve learnt. Rita, thank you for this experience, you are a guru!

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This my fourth Erasmus+ course and it has been absolutely the best course ever. Rita does her Job with her whole heart and she really knows what she is teaching for us. Rita is so experienced in all perspectives and she has very human and empathic way to see and teach things. She can also utilize the surroundings as it should be when we are in such an exotic island. Teaching outdoors and learning from the nature are most important things that I learned from this course. I will absolutely take my students more outdoors to learn.

I have learned so much about how our school could develop to be more international and how to teach my students to be more aware of globalization. I got also a lot of information about this beautiful Island. Guadeloupe is unique and versatile place to organize such a course.

I like our group which is easy to get along and work with. Athmosphere has been all the time friendly and warm. It is easy to talk with everybody although we come from very different school leveys and teaching subjects.

Thank you Rita😍 and everyone!

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This was my first Erasmus+ course and it by far exceeded all my expectations. The outdoor setting on the beautiful, diverse island of Guadeloupe perfectly matches the title of the course. And Rita‘s passion for teaching, her zest for life, her knowledge and her authenticity were completely infectious. Thank you, Rita!

Talking to colleagues from Finland, Latvia and Slovenia was really inspiring since they already had much more experience in doing international projects in their schools. In addition, the course materials handed out by Rita contain a lot of useful information and provide some really good ideas of what schools can do with respect to internationalization and enhancing key competences. I now feel ready to inform my colleagues and infuse them and the students with an international spirit.

I definitely think this was one of the best courses I‘ve ever been on and it will be hard to top it. Thank you, everybody, for having a great time!

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This course has been very versatile and interesting. I have learned a lot about how to incorporate global themes into the classroom. It was particularly beneficial to get practical ideas on both Erasmus-projects and developing key competences through an international and global perspective. As a language teacher I believe that culture is always connected to my subject but we could do much more in order to develop students' global citizenship skills. The session 7 "ideas for international activities" in the course booklet is very beneficial for developing projects we could do at school. There are many ideas I will suggest for my co-teacher when I get back.

I have also enjoyed all our classroom locations. The places we have visited have always been connected to things we have talked about during the sessions e.g sustainable development, culture and heritage and cultural identity. It would have been a shame to come to a place like this and sit in a classroom inside. Now we have learned about the nature and history of Guadeloupe and the local people in much more depth.

In addition, it has been great to talk to collegues from our country and abroad. To hear about successful Erasmus-projects and lesson activities, to make connections for future projects etc.

This course has been the best Erasmus-course I have been on so thank you all for being a part of it! 🗺️🏝️

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In this course I have noticed that the learning environment means a lot in learning path. As a biology and geography teacher I teach a lot in outdoors but I often forget that learning needs also planned brakes. I have assumed that if you go outside, the student get more focused on learning because we leave the normal learning environment, classroom. Actually, when you go outside your senses get much more information from the environment and for the student it might be difficult to consentrate on subject if there is too many goals or activities to achieve. Downsifting would not do a harm to subject, if you set the goals in learning experiences more presice and give some time for learning event itself. During this course I have noticed that those little brakes after theory or conversations have been important for me because my brains are loaded full of ideas and arranging needs time. I do not consider myself as an creative person but I think the idea of downshifting would give me a lot as a teacher and also as a person.

This course has also given me a much wider perspective to teach different cultures and how the cultures evolve. I have really loved those little conversations that I had with Rita; I also really like the way Rita has arrange this course; interacting with other teachers from Europe has confirmed me that our school is in the right path of internationalization. The themes that started from the form of my own identity was a route to myself, how I see myself as a global citizen. My eyes opened in so many different to multiculturalism and how i should take it into a count when I`m applying new Erasmus+ fundings to our school. I am also glad that I have made new friendships during this course. My door is open for every single one in Eastern part of Finland, if you are passing by. You are more than welcome :) And in the end, Guadeloupe has truly been a paradise island; high temperature, humidity, rainforests, volcanoes, coral reefs, mangroves, beautiful beaches, carnevals, french language and different variation of culture embodiments. What more can you ask, if you are a biology and geography teacher from the northern latitudes?

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I have learnt a lot on the course Classroom with a Door to the World. I have learnt about globalisation and interculturism. Earlier I didn't quite understand how important your own identity and national identity is in the intercultural context. So I found new perspective and I think I learnt the things better as we learnt them from a personal point of view. We always tried to put each theme learnt in the International Policy of our own school. So things that we discussed did not only stay hanging in the air so to speak.

I learnt from other cultures and school systems from other countries. I think I made  good contacts for the future. I even got extra contact from Rita from the Neatherlands because we have mutual interests in future project and Rita recognized it. I am very gratefull for this. I think Rita as a groupleader and a teacher has a talent in noticing what are each person's professional strenghts, potential and needs. She wants to offer something new to learn for everybody on the course given everybody comes from a different background and experience. Some people have already done a lot of international work and some are starting. I am sure there is something for everybody on this course. I think it is very important that the teachers get to lear new things for themselves too to set themselves in the position of a student. Rita's own exampe as a teacher is very inspiring to me. I am sure that this experience in Guadeloupe will results in something nice in my own work and in the future international projects.

This course was the best Erasmus+ ka1 course so far for me. I have been on two courses earlier. The classrooms were in different locations on the island or the sea each day. I found it amazing. I think it made learning more interesting and profitable to be in different surroundings in the nature. I think it increases creativity and makes positive learning environment for students. This choice for classrooms is the best choice for this wonderful and exotic island.

Thinking about language skills I learnt some French and used English as the main working language. For my work as a home economcs teacher I learned about food production and exotic ingredients in Guadeloupe. What is for more I was offered chances to interact with the locals. I will deffinately have these experiences integrated in my teaching.

The topic of our school in this ongoing Erasmus+ ka1 project is a Wellbeing School through Innovative Thinking so this was a very good teacher tarining course for us. We achieved the goals of learning new,  internationalization and globalization and much more. 😊

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The course was great and Rita (the organiser) is a real professional. There were a lot of pedagogigal discussions during the course, as well as changes of practices and customs in different countries and schools. Topics of the course were for example Global Citizenship, internationalization of schools, cultural diversity, good practices in schools, key competences and how to organize meaningful international projects. These are just to name a few examples of the topics we covered, there were several others as well. This course is also a very good option for a first-timer in Erasmus courses, because the lessons included a lot of tips for a good project, for the application and for how to make your whole school more international.

Gueadeloupe is a perfect place to have this course. Our lessons were mostly held outside, in several different locations. The places we held our lessions were really inspiring and made it a lot of fun to study. During the course we had a good look of Guadeloupe, saw many interesting places and learned a lot about the Guadeloupean culture, lifestyle and history. Rita knows a lot about this place and it's people, and she has really interesting stories to tell. Even with the beautiful surroundings, the best you get out of this course is the contents. Thank you Rita!

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The course I took here was one of the greatest of all Erasmus+ professional training events. I found this event valuable for several aspects:
1) excellent flow and exchange of information in the preparatory phase including useful course book that contains well written information on the topics covered in the course;
2) the course covered in detail very topical and much needed topics for our work at school- global citizenship, internationalization, project approach in teaching-learning process, etc.;
3) the course book was well developed and I will use it in my work process as well as in the dissemination events back home;
4) the course events were well organized and appropriate to the content and the location in Guadeloupe;
5) non-formal events, like tasting traditional dishes, visits to museums, parks, etc let me gather variety of ideas for my classes and turning the study process more fun and enjoyable for students;
6) very useful thought that made me think a lot was - happy and inspired teachers are what students benefit from the most! It is of utmost importance to invest in quality professional development and this course most definitely served this purpose.
7) Rita explained and encouraged us for successful Erasmus+ projects with the most important key aspects and details on filling out documentation;
8) very valuable material was on key competences that we are adapting in our school at the moment and this course gave me much needed insight from a different, much clearer perspective with lots of practical ideas. I will definitely bring this to my colleagues who are eager to find out more in a simple way.

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The course was genuinely one of the best courses I’ve attended. Rita is an excellent organizator. She covered a range of topics which appealed to everyone. I think everyone is going to take away some good action plans. I feel that I learnt a lot about school internationalization, multiculturalism, key competences and culture of Guadeloupe. Many things to think about from a new perspective. All topics were relevant to the “real world”. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend to anyone wanting to get a real understanding of how to write a good international project and develop their own profesional skills.

I REALLY enjoyed this course for many reasons. Firstly, for interacting with teachers from different countries who all have their own expierence and the same interest in Erasmus+ projects. Secondary, I liked  that all our learning sessions were autdoor activities and there was a great balance between theory and practice. Thirdly, for opportunity to find out more about the nature and culture of Guadeloupe.
Thanks, Rita!

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Internationalisation of curriculum and national identity Location: Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe (France) The course addresses the important issues raised by EU 2020 - internationalisation and modernisation of curriculum, Early Childhood Education and early school leaving, key competences, language learning and teachers' continuous professional development.