1. Visser ‘t Hooft Lyceum Secondary General Education ELOS School City of Leiden The Netherlands 2007-2008 Secondary General Education ELOS School City of Leiden The Netherlands 2007-2008

2. Europe as a Learning Opportunity for Schools Our school: - uses tools of the Information Age - is part of a collaborative learning environment - embeds European and Global contexts into the Dutch curriculum - works within a network of schools in Europe to develop European citizenship education: framework of key competencies and portfolio / Europass / Certilingua

3. ELOS: knowledge! CHECKLIST EUROPEAN / INTERNATIONAL COM 2nd grade I KNOW: how many countries are member of EU of the EU member states the capitals, population sizes, main geographical facts, languages spoken the general outline of history of EU: who is Monnet, 9th May and the Schumann declaration, 25th March Treaty of Rome, Treaty of Maastricht 2001, 6 founding member states of EU, 9 new EU member states between 1957 and 2007, 10 new EU member states in 2004, 2 new EU members of 2007 and which are the candidate countries, which EU countries have euro and which haven’t what UNESCO is articles 1-6 of Charter of Human Rights what we celebrate 21st of September what LLLP is 8 Millenium Development Goals by heart, what Fair Trade and a business plan is what sustainable development is what Dutch Chambres of Commerce do

4. ELOS: skills! I CAN: Collect, organize and present information on European and International affairs participate in European and International projects share knowledge on the Netherlands in relation to Europe + the rest of the world use internet for chats, forums, searches write and speak English at A2 level write and speak another language than Dutch or English at A1 level (German / French / Spanish / …) make an effort to learn basic language chunks of the partnerschool (Nepal / Turkey / Portugal / …) take part in mooting and do a short public speech in English

5. Elos: attitude! I UNDERSTAND that persons from a different culture might act differently, because they have different norms and values that I need to respect, verbally and non- verbally, the opinion and behaviour of people from a different cultural background that my identity depends on others that in order to work together well in a group I have to take responsibility for my share in the group that to know the other well, means I will have to listen and ask questions in order to understand the other better

6. HOW? Project-based teaching Cross-curricular + collaborative learning 3 teachers for 60 pupils 90 minutes a week for pupils ages 12-15 Pupils 16-18: no clear structures yet: debating Every week: different groups / tasks Flexibility and Creativity

7. Themes of VHL Personal angle : ME, YOU (my choices, my culture) School Local Community The Netherlands part of EU: ‘unity in diversity’ The Netherlands part of UN: One World/Global awareness/action on Environment/Global Peace Agenda Active/Interactive/Practical/Real:shared end product Collaborative angle : WE

8. Ongoing projects Comenius MobilID: jointly building the moodle website on eCitizenship in 6 age levels (eScience, eCulture, eSports, eVocation) ENO Project: Environment Online - Tree Planting Event 21st September Springday Europe 9th May / EU Language Day 26th September BEST Project: iEarn - Chambres of Commerce City of Leiden: pupils creating their own virtual companies by manufacturing recycled products or rendering social services. Teams of 2 classes of 2 different continents: digital divide / fair trade / sustainable development. Participants still welcome!

9. Evaluation and Learning Objectives New collaborative workforms in the classroom: eMagazine, Digidebate, blogging, podcasting, wiki’s New evaluation methods --> portfolio: which/how and who (pupils + teachers) --> checklists: based on EIO-Framework / key competencies --> tests: experimenting Exchanging good practices: in our own school, with other European schools, within the national bilingual and European Elos-networks: meetings, meetings, meetings…learning, learning, learning… “Pupils learn and so do teachers, Life Long Learning Programme”

10. Contact Details: Mrs. Marleen Spierings --> sg@vhl.nl www.vreemdetaal.nl/moodle www.e-citizenship.org