The faculty conducted a fire drill in building D
In addition to evacuation, the exercise also included sending out warning text messages.
International meeting of future teachers was held at the Faculty of Arts
Exchange of experiences between students across Europe, sharing of knowledge, enriching discussions and a sense of time well spent. This is not the only way to characterise the course, the attendance part of which was hosted by the Faculty of Arts of MU in the past few days.
The first part of the course took place virtually in February this year and took the form of an online meeting. The second part was based on a face-to-face meeting of all participants, who met in the first week of March at the FF MU.
The course involved 24 students from the FF MU, the University of Potsdam and the University of Paris Nanterre, who spent a very intensive week together. For example, they compared the educational systems of their countries. They defined their strengths and weaknesses, prepared research questions to which they sought answers directly at two grammar schools, addressed the issue of working with diversity in the classroom, and developed a proposal for their international course and a specific teaching block.
The course included workshops, team projects, poster presentations, lectures and discussions, which provided an ideal opportunity for sharing, learning and creating together. The programme was also enriched by excursions and trips.
The course is part of the so-called blended intensive programmes (BIP) of the Erasmus+ format, which combine online meetings and short-term physical mobility of students or lecturers and focus mainly on international exchange and sharing experiences.
"The programme's strategic goal is to strengthen mobility opportunities for students in the Faculty of Arts MU teacher-training programmes. Teacher-training programmes are consecutive (consisting of parts that follow each other continuously, ed.), and semester mobility often means an extension of student studies. This is not possible for some students, and their options are limited. Another group of students has concerns regarding their language competencies. The BIP addresses both of these issues in a good way - a week abroad does not contribute to the length of the study, but it is very enriching in terms of learning. At the same time, it allows students to join an English-speaking group in a way that is safe for them," summarised one of the programme's organisers, Zuzana Šalamounová, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Arts MU.
“I really enjoyed this course, especially as I was a little bit hesitant in the beginning, and I was proved wrong. You managed to put together great people who were happy to share their experiences and who are, in many ways, inspirational for my future career. I really appreciate that you didn't force anyone to speak but that we had a lot of time for more personal conversations.”
summary of the week in Brno by one of the participants of the event
A last online meeting is scheduled for the near future. However, it will not be the end of the course: 'In April, we will already be discussing how to ensure the continuation of the course in the next academic year, this time in Potsdam, Germany,' added Šalamounová.
The programme was implemented by a team from the Faculty of Arts consisting of Zuzana Šalamounová and Jitka Sedláčková from the Department of Educational Sciences, Nela Lepinová from the Department of English and American Studies, and Patrícia Ďuranová from the Department of German, Scandinavian and Netherland Studies.
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