As a European school, the Elly-Heuss-Knapp School sees itself as an "integral part of European education". educational work", this guideline is laid down in the school program. Colleagues should be should be sensitized to this and encouraged to organize study trips for the full-time study trips, especially to other European countries, and thus to and students especially for the European idea as well as the work opportunities within Europe. Europe. The working conditions in the countries of Group 1, which we primarily wanted to visit, turned out to be particularly innovative and exemplary, above all in the socio-educational - and health care. These are the two areas with the largest the largest number of students in our school and are therefore particularly interesting for the design of intercultural project work. The teachers should be able to learn about the different education systems and working conditions on the ground. practical support. For this reason we have selected offers that on the one hand institutions of vocational education on the one hand and on the other hand include the topic intercultural project work as a focal point. Especially the projects in Finland, Ireland and Scotland seemed to be particularly useful. Guideline six of the school program states: "The employees of our school work professionally and strive for continuous improvement. school work professionally and strive for continuous improvement" and is to be supported above all be supported as follows: The European classes in the educator training conduct regularly carry out internships in other European countries, which are supervised by the local teachers. are supervised. New teachers at the school should be involved in projects of key action 1 in preparation for or to accompany their work in this participate in projects of key action 1 in order to promote the European idea and the special intercultural intercultural ideas of this course of education in the classroom. in the classroom. Within the framework of the full-time education programs of our school, study trips to other European countries. We have selected projects for the organization and realization, that, for example, develop ideas for the organization of a study trip on site in order to prepare the colleagues for this task. for this task, we first planned to send the language teachers for Spanish to Spain for Spanish to Spain as well as further teachers to London. In addition, as a project school for digital learning in Schleswig-Holstein, we wanted to put a focus on participating in events on this topic in order to improve the quality of teaching in this area. on the one hand, to positively influence the quality of teaching in this area. On the other hand, we wanted to also to let the participants of the events benefit from our experiences and to establish new international contacts and to pursue an internationalization strategy as a European school. First attempts in this direction have already been made, e.g. by supporting lessons via videoconferencing. were supported. In order to follow the progress of digital and to get new inspirations, e.g. the visit of the bett show 2020 and 2021 in the context of the London stays were planned. As the ninth strategy of our school, we see "intercultural diversity as an enrichment of our school life." For this reason, our school regularly organizes events, primarily in the area of vocational preparation courses, our school regularly organizes a Europe Week. Here the learners are taught the European idea. Since this group of learners learns home economics skills through the operation of our the operation of our European bistro, we had a special focus on the topic "Nutrition in Europe". "Nutrition in Europe". During this time, the students prepared different meals from different countries every day countries every day, in order to experience nutrition as a cultural commodity at first hand and with all their senses. Through this exchange, we promoted the idea of tolerance and heterogeneity. Against this inspiration to develop further teaching ideas that emphasize cultural goods. cultural goods in the foreground. Thus, with this application we focused the competence enhancement of teachers and learners in three of the nine guidelines of our school program
The Elly-Heuss-Knapp School is a European School. In this context we represent and organize Europe-wide educational projects for many years, for example in the area of social pedagogical and nursing education. Particularly worth mentioning is the fact that we have classes in the area of educator training (European classes), in which all learners students complete internships in Europe. The focus is on the European idea and the opportunities that Europe offers as a workplace. as a place to work. The students benefit particularly from these experience, because they can incorporate it both into their teaching and into their practical work in the workplace. Knowledge of, for example, the intra-European diversities of early childhood education thus forms a cornerstone of project work in the classroom. Our wish was to establish contacts to educational institutions in other European countries within the framework of the and to promote intercultural exchange. Furthermore, for many years there has been a very successful secondment of nursing students to Denmark. nursing training to Denmark. Here, the trainees complete a practical assignment in Danish geriatric care Danish geriatric care facilities, which are exemplary from a German perspective. The students students always manage to verbalize these experiences in a way that is amazing for us teachers. and to implement some of the ideas in facilities in Schleswig-Holstein. Since this group of learners is often still very young and it is often the first stay abroad or without family accompaniment, we also notice an enormous gain in the self-competence of the students. in the area of self-competence of the students. Another aspect of this work German-Danish history and Danish culture, which should be intensified. should also be intensified. The continuation of the above-mentioned work should be further secured. Our school is and has been facing a generation and in order to make this process as smooth as possible, it is important for our school to have a it is important for our school to prepare younger colleagues for the established work and to work and to win more classes and teachers for the European idea. win them over. The digitization strategy of the state of Schleswig-Holstein forms the basis of our work as a project school for digital learning, in the context of which we prepare students for prepare students for lifelong learning and the needs of the job market, and also held our School Development Day 2019. Although our school was already exemplary in the area of digital learning in already acted in an exemplary manner in many areas, our goal was to continuously improve. In doing so we wanted to benefit from the experience of other educational institutions as well as to share our share our experiences.