1- Improving teachers skills in the use of Moodle. Since the pandemic, we have had to work with OSS in Saarland, a platform that offers a wide range of features to teach and share materials online. A lot of teachers were not familiar with the programme and struggled to keep up with the technology. In the wake of the pandemic, some elements of remote teaching are now well established. 2- Introducing a new subject in the Erasmus+ activities carried out in our school. The training course in Greece, was aimed at history and art teachers. One the history teacher who is also an Italian teacher, is now actively involved in group mobility projects (Rome, Parlement européen des lycées in Starsburg) and short-term individual mobilities with another school in Florence. The art teacher is involved in another group mobility project with our partner in Gouda, The Netherlands, in a project about cities involving geography and art. So, the objective in that field is definitely reached as we now have art and history teachers involved in Erasmus+. 3- The last objective was to train teachers in student-oriented learning technique. Being a bicultural school, teaching students in a foreign language is always a challenge in our school.
The main objectives were : - Training teachers and import good teaching practices used in other European countries. - Training teachers in an international context that reflects the reality of the Franco-German High School, as we have to train pupils whose mother tongue is not necessarily that of the teacher. In addition to linguistic progress, it is also interesting to place teachers in a learner situation so that they are fully aware of the challenges of teaching in a foreign language. - Capitalising on the international identity of the Franco-German lycée and in particular our openness to Europe. Teachers involved in vocational training in international teams are more inclined to get involved in projects that involve pupils. So it is a long-term human investment to keep staff involved in Erasmus+ projects. - The final point is to maintain the attractiveness of our school in an increasingly competitive local environment with the opening of a European secondary school in Saarbrücken. It is crucial for us to make it clear that the Franco-German lycée is not limited to teaching French and German, but that our educational ambitions are realised in a European context.