Thanks to IDEA project our Institute aimed to give school staff the opportunity to attend training courses abroad selected on the School Education Gateway portal and carry out job shadowing activities at the Lycée professionnel “Paul Valéry” Menton - France (that has shared a motivating and fruitful exchange experiences with our institute for years). The project had the following goals: - experience new European contexts - develop skills of intercultural dialogue - acquire new points of view on education and future - practice English and/or another foreign language in a full immersion situation - discover innovative teaching methods - develop international paths of inclusion - learn educational strategies to fight school dropout - improve digital skills in order to use them in learning/teaching situations - propose re-motivating experiences - increase a long-lasting quality of the human resources - improve the quality of the service offered to students and their families - provide participants with a wide range of ideas and activities to motivate students and make lessons more effective - acquire new skills renewing the daily teaching activity and integrating it with the methodologies learned
For many years the IIS of Erice has been pursuing its plan for the development of the European dimension, aiming decisively at the following goals: - implement the modernization and internationalization of the teaching-learning paths; - strengthen European citizenship skills; - train conscious European citizens; - get to know new realities; - offer opportunities for personal, social and cultural discussion; - activate experiences, exchanges and international contacts thanks to Erasmus+ projects funded by the European Union, in line with the strategic vision of the Three-Year Plan of Educational Offer (PTOF). Today it is important to implement and put in place a set of measures and actions aimed at: - make the curricula more international; - train the teaching staff and the whole school staff according to the needs of a globalized society; - allow students to better understand Europe; - prepare the students to enjoy education and training opportunities in Europe; - acquire skills to be used in the European labor market that is more and more International and competitive; - promote cultural enrichment through dialogue between people of different cultures and languages.