Job shadowing activities: • Involvement of further teachers to gain valuable personal impressions/experiences and to be able to accompany learners' mobilities in the future. • Insights into foreign vocational training systems to sort out options for improving learning/teaching processes based on perceived differences and similarities in the didactic-methodical design of teaching/learning situations as well as extracurricular learning environments. • Establishing contacts with European colleagues and discuss differences, similarities as well as developments and trends in VET Structured training courses: • Training foreign language competences/intercultural competences of foreign language teachers/other teachers • Collecting ideas regarding the use of mobile devices/digital technologies in teaching/learning processes • Collecting ideas/gaining a deeper understanding of the characteristics and handling of heterogeneity/diversity as well as strategies for the prevention of racism and discrimination. • Collecting ideas/gaining a deeper understanding of the possibilities of individual support/problem orientation.
The project S.M.I.L.E. followed the very successful Kick-Off project that initiated the Erasmus+ activities at BK Neandertal in 2018. Being aware that that European exchanges offer tremendous benefits not only to learners but also to teachers has led to an increased interest in participating in mobilities. At Berufskolleg Neandertal, a continuous Erasmus+ professionalisation of teachers is of great importance for ensuring the quality of teaching as well as the European exchange (networking with European colleagues, cooperation projects with learners) and its associated sustainable implementation of the European dimension of teaching and learning.