B.E.L.L. Business Economics Language Learning

B.E.L.L.Business Economics Language LearningComenius/eTwinning2010-12

ECOLE PRIVÉE FIELDGEN LUX, BHAK LINZ AUT, OA a VOSE TÁBOR CZE, GYMNASIUM OHMOOR GER,

GRUNNSKÓLI BOLUNGARVÍKUR ISL, IES LEONARDO DO VINCI ESP

Presentation Topics Project Idea (Fair Trade) Project in eTwinning (online work) Training Firms Preparatory Meeting Integration into Curriculum Project Benefits

Project idea. Objectives

Learning foreign languages by offering fields like economics, marketing, business, ethics

Creating training or junior firms (real or virtual)

Recognizing the importance of ethical aspects concerning economic processes. Fair trade and sustainability

Project Meetings Alicante Tábor Bolungarvík Hamburg Luxembourg

Explanation about Fair Trade

What's Fair Trade ? What are the products you can

buy in your country?

Questionnaire

Composition of a questionnaire by the students (during the first meeting in Alicante)Survey organized with students, teachers, friends and familyResults presented during the second meeting in Tabor

Project in eTwinning TwinSpace as

portfolio according to topics

Project diary as project steps

Online communication on TwinSpaceforum applicationinternational groupsFair Trade research in hometownsoutput: FT video on YouTube

Project online promotiontrailers on FlixTimeFairTrade songsvideos on YouTube

Training firms businessWebnode createdfirms, products, transactions

Our training firms FairHokat (Austria) They created an enterprise which was

selling goods for eating as chocolates, bananas, clothes coming from Fair Trade business

OA Trade (Czechia) They deal with online selling Fair Trade

goods and services from Austria, Germany and Luxembourg. They are an e-shop

Café Horse (Iceland)They created Café Horse selling Fair Trade coffee and cakes in horsemanship areas of Iceland

Slang (Germany) They created a school firm offering

language lessons via skype, cooperation with real FT firm Glovico

Impex (Luxembourg)Impex was a firm dedicated to import-export fair trade products and ethnic jewellery from undeveloped countries

Ethnica Vinci (Spain)This firm produced their own designs of ethnic jewellery and they bought as well in other countries

Preparatory Meeting

Integration into Curriculum

Entrepreneurship - a lifelong learning model.

Basic Idea of our school’s curriculum: Entrepreneurship is seen as a lifelong learning

model. Entrepreneurship and Sustainability – two equally

important learning goals Students learn to see problems from the small

business owner’s point of view. Students learn on the basis of projects. They

need/develop skills for project-based learning. Students are assessed on their performance.

Integration in School Curriculum

Year 10: Problem-based learning, compulsory focus: The Future of Europe students find/choose their own problem time allotted: two months (16-18 hours)

Year 11: Project-based learning compulsory focus: The Future of our Business World I time allotted: two months (16-24 hours)

Year 12: Project-based learning compulsory focus: The Future of our Business World II time allotted: two months (16-24 hours)

SCHOOL CURRICULUM and COMENIUS-PROJECT I

What did the Comenius-Project add to our curriculum?Young Entrepreneurs learn to use business English about intercultural differences the needs of continuous interaction and

communication to deal with frustration in interculturally tense

moments to solve problems in an international group to involve adults in their project

SCHOOL CURRICULUM and COMENIUS-PROJECT II

How did our students profit from the Comenius Project?

Young Entrepreneurs are self-confident are aware of the importance of sustainability in

business take initiative developed a positive attitude towards Europe are critical consumers

LOVE FROM BOLUNGARVÍK – ICELAND!

„The project has taught me so much; about Fair trade business, I have learned to know a lot of new people, my English has got

much better, and I myself have developed personally by going abroad. I am more seccure in speaking in front of others and

have more self confidence“.Sigríður Magnea

„ I have learned to know new countries, I have got new friends and can be in contact with them through the Internet, and I

have also developed a lot personally“. Konrad

 „It was a great experience to stay in another home and learn

about new habbits. Also practising English, learning to know a lot of great people and experience the country I visited“.

Thelma

THANK YOU!

Being a teacher living in a rural area means it can be quite difficult to get

retrained. It can then be the cause of job dissatisfaction , which can then affect

your teaching ability. I personally was at this stage in my work. The comenius

project has changes all that. Since joining the project I have found my job

satisfaction again and this reflexes on my teaching. After each visit abroad I come

back home full of new Ideas, which have helped me becoming a better teacher

and this benefits my students.Thank you to the Comenius for the opportunity to travel , to get to know other

countries, people, their culture and customes. I have been able to see different

sides of my students, have seen them blooming, speak English like their own

language og just finding other ways to communicate. Finally I would like to say

that since joining the Comenius the self confidence of my students and I has

increased more then I could ever imagine which is one of the greatest benefits of

this. My students will benefit from this experience in the future. (Halldóra

Dagný).

Teacher‘s view!

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