At our home - at your home! Our project includes an exchange between teachers from an Austrian, a Spanish and a French primary school. Teachers from all those countries discover foreign countries and cultures and enhance their English skills. All those countries get to know life in the other parts of Europe including cultural traditions, daily life and school systems. Students communicate with the partner schools by eTwinning, by writing letters and E-Mails. In this way students and teachers from all countries socialise with each other and learn from each other due to joint projects and job shadowing. Ideally, this exchange gives rise to lifelong ties and friendships between the three countries. The children who participate also realise that learning (at least one) foreign language is necessary in order to communicate with others. They improve their language skills without having to worry about grades or pressure. Three teachers and two groups of students (about 25 students) from each school take part in this project. The students first meet via the eTwinning plattform. The whole exchange takes place in English so that none of the groups has an advantage language-wise, and all groups improve their English language skills. Children from Spain will come to Austria and get to know live in Austria. We will make a lot of sightseeing, because we are happy to invite people from our partnerschool. In the long term run we hope that this project will lead to students becoming more open and tolerant with respect to other countries, cultures and school systems. Students' communicative and digital competences are enhanced due to this exchange, and the joint projects on the digital eTwinning plattform.
At our home - at your home! Our project included an exchange between teachers from an Austrian, a Spanish and a French primary school. Teachers from all those countries discoverd foreign countries and cultures and enhanced their English skills. All those countries got to know life in the other parts of Europe including cultural traditions, daily life and school systems. Children from Spain discovered Austria. They visited mountains, lakes, Cities, they learned and experiences the diffent climate in our homecountry. Austrian students learned a lot about a typical village in spain, their traditions, their climate, the architecure, typical food or plants. We also get to know many things about living in Spain. We compared typical festivals in our countries and we were surprised that christmas traditions are different, but exhausting. Students communicated with their partner schools digital, by writing letters and E-Mails. We changed telefonnumbers and E- Mail Adresses and communicated in different ways. In those way students and teachers from all countries socialised with each other and learned from each other due to joint projects and job shadowing. Ihis exchange giv rise to lifelong ties and friendships between the three countries. The children who participate also realised that learning (at least one) foreign language is necessary in order to communicate with others. They improved their language skills without having to worry about grades or pressure. Teachers improved their digital skills, they get to know different tools and skills. In this project a lot more people were involved as we planned. 75 children from Austria, two classes from Spain and two classes from France communicated all the time. But in some activities a lot more teachers and students tool part. Children talked about their families, their hobbies, pets and their favourite food The students first sent letters, cards, videos, later they talked online and in the end they met in Austria. The whole exchange took place in English so that none of the groups had an advantage language-wise, and all groups improved their English language skills. Children from Spain came to Austria and got to know live in Austria. We showed them some highlights in Graz, then Mautern, and landscape in Aussee. We showed them the highest mountain and the biggest lake in Styria and they tasted al lot of typical food. This project helped students to become more open and tolerant with respect to other countries, cultures and school systems. Students' communicative and digital competences were enhanced due to this exchange, and the joint projects on the digital eTwinning plattform. Our students were very interested, they had a lot of ideas and were very exicted to learn more about zhose countries. We were surprised about their commitment.