Teaching Leadership Programme Erasmus Project

Project Title

Teaching Leadership Programme

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Pedagogy and didactics; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

TLP is a language teaching leadership programme developed by Comberton Village College and Colegio Madre María Rosa Molas. Sixth Form students studying Spanish in the UK and KS4 students learning English in Spain have the opportunity to develop their language skills by becoming language teachers for the younger students in accordance to the language needs of the school (Y7 at CVC, Y1-2 at MMRM). Students participating in the programme from both schools have an intermediate level of Spanish / English (B1 in the CEFR) and they are assigned a language-mentor from their partner school to develop their language skills further. Language-tutors collaborate throughout the duration of programme in providing each other support to plan, design and deliver language lessons. They also co-plan a series of cultural units to be delivered in the visits students do to the partner school. The Erasmus+ scheme allows the students to have the opportunity to co-teach together with their language-mentors whilst giving them the opportunity to experience language teaching abroad from first hand. TLP promotes autonomous and cooperative learning among KS4 and KS5 students and uses a cascading approach to learning by which the student language-tutor becomes the teacher and language role model for a group of KS3 students. This requires an ongoing training programme for those KS4 and KS5 students involved in order to develop their teaching and leadership techniques. At a whole-school level, this mentor-scheme aims to support extra curricular foreign language lessons. By launching this leadership opportunity to ours students, we aim to achieve similar results among our KS2/3 students, with the additional benefit of providing an invaluable leadership opportunities for KS4/5 students. The benefits for pupils attending the sessions and the students taking up the role of the language-tutor are significant: student leaders have the opportunity to share their love for languages while developing their understanding of teaching and learning. It is a rewarding experience that teaches them professional and interpersonal skills that increase their confidence and employability. The opportunity to collaborate closely with a language-mentor undertaking a similar role develops their understanding of multiculturalism, getting them to reflect more intensely on their own identity as a multilingual person, and their relationship to other languages and cultures.

Project Website

https://teachingleadershipprogramme.wordpress.com/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 21768 Eur

Project Coordinator

Cam Academy Trust & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Colegio Madre M Rosa Molas Consolación Hermanas de Ntra Sra de la Provincia España Norte