Internationalise your Classroom

Course goals

Students are able to:

• define internationalization at home and explain its relevance within education;
• research, analyze and evaluate case studies and projects regarding citizenship education, in which educators used learning materials and tools to enhance internationalization & world citizenship at home;
• design a well-structured project plan for a COIL project for a secondary school;
• reflect on the use of a COIL project in their classroom and how they want to use it in your future teaching.

Content

In this course students will develop an understanding of the relevance and importance of internationalization at home in secondary school curriculum. Main themes are world citizenship, virtual exchange and eTwinning. Students will learn about innovative tools to help internationalize the curriculum and how to work with those tools in an international and/or diverse classroom, which results in an educational design for internationalization at home.

Assessment
Students will write a portfolio which includes the following components:
 

1.  Challenge based virtual exchange project	Portfolio, assignment 1 (60%)
2.  Reflect on the use of a virtual exchange project in your classroom and how you want to use it in your future teaching	Portfolio, assignment 2 (40%)