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Schools can apply to host a Comenius assistant, a future teacher of any subject.

While the assistantship offers the Comenius assistant the opportunity to gain teaching experience in another European country, the school gets additional support for activities such as:
• assisting in classroom teaching, supporting pupils' group work and project-based teaching
• introducing or reinforcing the European dimension
• implementing CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) by teaching a subject in a foreign language
• improving the pupils’ comprehension and expression in foreign languages, enriching the language offer at the school
• developing and implementing projects e. g. eTwinning, Comenius School Partnerships or Comenius Regio Partnerships
• working with pupils with special educational needs

Host schools must designate a teacher to supervise the assistant, look after his or her welfare, monitor the progress and act as a contact person during the assistantship. Assistants should be fully integrated into school life. They are not supposed to work as full-time teachers but assist in teaching and other school activities (max 12 to 16 hours of school based activity are recommended). The host school and the assistant must draw up an agreement which specifies the lessons to be taught, the projects to be completed, etc.

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. Host schools are selected by the National Agencies in their home country.

Organisations participating in the Comenius Programme must be located in a country participating in the LLP and belong to one of the types of institution specified by the relevant National authorities in their list of eligible school types (link:
http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/llp/comenius/school_en.html).
For the participation of specific types of schools, please refer to the introductory part of the Comenius Chapter in Part II of this Guide.
Please verify with the National Agency to which you will apply if any additional national
requirements exist.

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

Deadline: 2009/01/30