European Citizenship

Worldconnector Tineke Lambooy meets the students of Visser ‘t Hooft Lyceum in Leiden during a live video connection on Tuesday 4 December. In the second live streaming video session from 09.30 to 10.30, you can watch Lambooy in a discussion with students about Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Global Citizenship.

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The When We Connect Project! Polish-Dutch Divide? What’s the connection? 
When We Connect was set up for Dutch and Polish high school students.
Students learn about each other and their countries throughout the school year,
and hold a conference on European issues in The Hague in May of 2008. 
When We Connect would love to see a follow-up conference in Poland in 2009, but needs your support!
See: http://www.europeesplatform.nl/polen/

The Comenius III Network Elos is meeting from the 14th-16th of October in Lisbon, Portugal. At the conference 120 teachers from all countries in Europe are discussing the use of a European portfolio, the framework for the European and International competence of secondary school pupils, as well as the certification in the form of Certilingua, to add to a pupils CV.

European teachers are also exchanging good practice lesson materials on European and International citizenship.

The schools working within Comenius III are currently integrating European and International themes into their curricula and working closely together in this development.

Hi Colleagues

I have uploaded two videos on YouTube re: our Tree Planting at the Visser ‘t Hooft Lyceum, Leiden, The Netherlands. Just search for sips67.

Scott Skinner

Teacher

Monday 21st May the Dutch national cabinet of Ministers have invited 200 citizens to share a dialogue with them. All the people invited play active roles in education, social services or companies. In groups of 8 the Dutch citizens exchanged opinions. Each group could ask questions or share opinions with one of the Ministers. The Pedagogical Advisor Spring Day 2007 for the Netherlands, Mrs. Marleen Spierings, brought Spring Day to the Prime Minister’s attention. The Dutch Prime Minister also discussed the importance of educating youth to develop an open and respecting attitude towards people of different cultures and backgrounds in Europe.. “European and international education might very well be one of the answers to the problems of integration Dutch society is facing�, is the opinion of the Pedagogical Advisor Spring Day 2007 for the Netherlands.

The Stichtse Vrije School Zeist has won! The group of pupils have worked on a podcastsong on the collaboration of 50 years, centred on the multicultural society. Names: Devi Brands, 19 years old, Zonne Hofman, 17 years old and David Verbeeck, 18 years old. With special help from: KKdesign.nl, Kieran Klaassen. Promotion: Together we thought about the future of Europe and made it work on music. Three languages, one wish, a tolerant society. The Prize Winners will spend a Day in Brussels.

   Professional development workshop

    Friday 16th February 2007 a workshop on working with learning environments in a European Learning circle in secondary education was given.  Event information
Theme: Social Science; Social Studies, Geography, History, Economics, Politics, Philosophy, Citizenship, Health education, Cross curriculum projects.
Age group: 12-19
Marleen Spierings, the Netherlands