Keywords: Finantari

Tags: personal development pedagogy education

Assistants receive grants to enable them to undertake an assistantship in a host school of another country participating in the Lifelong Learning Programme. The host school designates a fully qualified and experienced teacher to act as a supervisor for the assistant.

The objective of this action is to give future teachers the opportunity to gain a better understanding of the European dimension to teaching and learning, to enhance their knowledge of foreign languages, other European countries and their education systems and to improve their teaching skills.

The tasks to which an assistant may contribute include:
• assisting in classroom teaching, supporting pupils' group work and project-based teaching
• improving the pupil’s comprehension and expression in foreign languages, teaching the assistant’s mother tongue
• providing support for pupils with special educational needs
• providing information on the assistant’s country of origin
• introducing or reinforcing the European dimension in the host institution
• developing and implementing projects, e.g eTwinning, Comenius School Partnerships or Comenius Regio Partnerships

Assistants should be fully integrated into school life. They are not supposed to act as full-time teachers but to assist in teaching and other school activities (max 12 to 16 hours of school based activity are recommended).

Comenius assistants may be based at more than one school, either to give extra variety to their work or to meet particular needs of neighbouring schools. Assistants may not work in more than 3 schools during their assistantship.

Assistants are selected by the National Agencies in their home country.

Assistants receive a grant to help cover travel and preparatory costs and to contribute towards subsistence costs.
Pedagogic, linguistic and cultural preparation: A contribution may be granted up to a lump sum of maximum 500 € per participant. The eligible activities are induction meetings, linguistic preparation and preparation relating to Content and language integrated language (CLIL)

http://ec.europa.eu/education/llp/doc/call09/fiches_en.pdf

Deadline: 2009/01/30