Our main objective has been to achieve the complete internationalization of our Institution. Some of the objectives we have achieved with this project have been: a) Improve the skills of our educational team in the matter of acquisition of new didactic strategies, use of ICT tools, improvement of technological competence. b) Improve in terms of communication in foreign language (English) and CLIL approach. c) Reduce the early drop-out rate and foster the inclusion ofall students. These are our main goals, but there are many transversal competences that will be implemented by the execution of the project. We are aware that this type of training will provide an experience of great value for this secondary school, not just because it will increase the linguistic skills in foreign language for the teaching staff or the acquisition of new teaching strategies, if not the opportunity to be in a intercultural environment where other foreign professionals who will contribute ideas / experiences / good teaching practices will coincide, an ideal way to establish contacts that lead our Institution to the creation of an important partners network with whom to collaborate soon.
Fernando III Secondary School is located in the south of Spain in the town of Martos (Jaén). The economy is largely based in agriculture and farming industry; besides plastic and automobile manufactures add to the city’s economy. The school has a wide range of training programmes including compulsory secondary education and high school (Bachillerato), as well as an intermediate VET degree related to the industry of plastic and metal, and 4 upper VET degrees, namely Computer application systems, Electronic maintenance and Metals, Polymers moulding production scheduling and design in mechanical manufacturing. The latter 3 were implemented in the DUAL VET mode. Approximately 30% of the students come from a very low economic status neighborhood and about 1/3 of them belong to disadvantaged families at risk of social exclusion, with high unemployment rate and problems associated with this situation (marginalization, high school drop-out rate, gender inequality, etc).