Train for international trail Project
Sparkle of Internationalisation
Train for international trail (TFIT) is a project done with the students and for the students. Project aims to give variations for implementing internationalisation at home to everyday teaching. Teaching material produced enables everyone to grasp the topic, wether your´re a teacher or a student.
Our strength is that the network of partners is formed by organisations with strong professionality of educational work with students with special needs. Together we can create accessible and intriguing study material with a twist of gamification.
Project summary
Train for international trail aims to improve the possibilities for all learners to feel European and to have opportunity to include internationality to their studies.
We create a handbook and a study module with study materials and guides for teachers on how to get started on digitally based learning environments.
Our objectives
We will create a virtual trail towards international thinking and offer tools for preparing for an actual mobility. The network of partners formed by organisations with strong professionality of educational work with students with special needs enables us to create engaging, versatile, and accessible material.
The students voice will be the main focus during the project. Young people are active and have a need to communicate with their peers also internationally. We want to train for international trail together in European collaboration, intertwined along vocational studies.
Project results can also be used as a preparation course for actual mobilities in VET – not only in special needs education but also in the mainstream VET.
Through the training course and other materials, we will be able to enhance the internationalisation at home (I@H) activities in each organisation. Parts of the study module can be used also just to have introduction of internationality among studies and life skills.
Project results
- Connecting Europe – online game
- Mobility Ability – study module
- Mobility Ability journal
- Mobility Handbooks
Project’s results enable and encourage teachers to use digital tools and most importantly engage students more in internationalization.
The point is that the internationalisation reaches the classroom easily with a motivating game and other tasks. The binding factor in the project results is that it reaches the whole spectrum of internationalisation among students and staff, with actual mobility or not.
Participants
atempo
Live Vocational College
Luovi Vocational College(coordinator)
Cirius
Learning digital
Gureak
Zefiro
Experiences – What we have done
Video: Experiences of international project activities
Student Jenna Nieminen and teachers Jenni Leinonen and Minna Pietilä from Luovi Vocational College tell about international cooperation in Train for International Trail -project.
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Blog
A journey of the Train for international trail
Do you want to increase internationality in your teaching? Are you missing small international tasks to brighten up your day? What skills do students need to operate fluently in international environment? How to identify and develop them?
The Train for international trail, or more familiarly the TFIT project, has united partners from the field of special education from all over Europe. In the project, the students are in the center of producing and piloting material to support internationalization and learning about it.
A student-oriented perspective refreshes project participants on many levels. Students, teachers and project coordinators are happy with the progress of the products. At the coordinators’ meeting in Austria, we reviewed the progress of the project outputs. It was a pleasure to notice that the student-oriented way of working produces good results and that the results of the project look like the student made. The outputs of the project are tangible and therefore it has been easy to get started with making them. The students have been involved in developing and producing project materials related to the knowledge and skills needed when operating in international contexts. The teaching staff has played a valuable role in guiding the development of the products, as well as acting as support staff on the learning teaching training activities.
In addition to the actual results, the teachers report that they gained new perspectives and an inspiring touch of internationality in their everyday life.
Get to know the project results: luovi.fi/tfit
The expected impact and long-term benefits:
We aim to achieve impact at individual level as increased skills and competence to operate in an international environment.
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More information
Miia Tolonen
+358 40 3193 183
Miia.Tolonen@luovi.fi