We had four objectives for the project: We wanted to get to know how Estonia has used and uses modern technology in schools and to improve our skills in digital environment. We wanted to start developing practice with student agents to help other students and also teachers using different digital environments. We also wanted to learn good practices and possibly detect new equipment for our new STEAM classroom. The fourth objective was to continuously educate our staff in fields of special support, language skills and internationalization.
Vaalan yhtenäiskoulu is a comprehensive school, covering both primary and secondary levels, grades 1-9 and teaching students according to the curriculum of Finland. We are a public, non-profit organisation. Our project title was 'Job shadowing as a tool for improving, enriching and developing one's own teaching and vocational competence and for strengthening cooperation and collaboration between countries'. It was a short-term project for mobility of our staff.