eTwinning at FAU – Designing international school projects using media

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Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg has been active in the “eTwinning Teacher Training Institutes Initiative” (renamed “eTwinning for Future Teachers” in 2020) since 2021 and teaches eTwinning in the courses for student teachers. Future teachers learn about innovative methods in the context of international collaboration through eTwinning and are able to design international school projects using media.

eTwinning is a network of school and preschool institutions in Europe for establishing partnerships and carrying out joint projects. It is free of charge and open to all types of schools, grades and subjects. The network was founded by the EU and created on the European School Education Platform: https://school-education.ec.europa.eu/de.

As part of the “FAU Teacher Education International” project, eTwinning courses serve to promote internationalization at home and internationalization of the curriculum and also support (virtual) cooperation with other universities in Germany and abroad. In courses and extracurricular workshops, student teachers at FAU will have the opportunity to collaborate on eTwinning project design with student teachers and international fellow students.

In the winter semester 2022/23, a systematic introduction of students to eTwinning based on a flipped classroom concept was tested as part of a teaching project.

Courses in which eTwinning is integrated:

Summer semester 2023

  • Lecture „Current educational science issues in a mediatised and globalised world”
  • Seminar “Theories and Concepts of International Education”
  • Seminar “Fields of Action in International Education: Approaches and Explorations”
  • Seminar “Theories of pedagogical action also in international comparison and in the context of migration/(Pedagogical) professionalism in the context of international mobility”
  • Seminar „Conditions, aims, contents and methods of international educational work in and out of school”

Next eTwinning Workshop:

Tuesday, 20 June 2023, 2:00–5:15 pm, Online

“eTwinning in teacher education – Designing international education projects using media”

Target Group: Teacher educators

Registration: https://www.studon.fau.de/crs5016532_join.html

 

Thursday, 29 June 2023, 2:00 – 13:30 p.m., classroom event

“eTwinning – Organising international school education projects“

Target Group: Teaching degree students

Registration: Please send an e-mail until June 1, 2023 with your name and your study programme to zfl-lehramt-international@fau.de

Schools and Higher Education Institutions interested in collaborating through eTwinning are invited to contact the “FAU Teacher Education International” project team by email zfl-teacher-education-international@fau.de .