3.4 Learning and teaching activities - Students meeting Ahaus

  • Programme in Ahaus 2017

    Date

    morning

    lunch

    afternoon

    dinner

    accommodation

     

    Sunday 26 March

    Arrival LMA: approx.

    9.30 (BG)

     

    Arrival LMA: approx.

    15.30 (F, RO)

    17.30 (CR, SP)

     

    LMA Heek Nienborg

    18.30

    (cold with some warm elements)

    LMA Heek/Nienborg

    Monday 27 March

    8.30 – 10.20

    speed dating (LMA concert hall)

    10.30 trip to school

    10.45 – 11.30

    short visit, greeting by headmaster

    (room A 008)

    canteen

    11.45 – 12.40

    13 – 14.00 reception city hall; short walk around Ahaus,

    15 – 17.00: visit of company Tobit

    17.00 – 18.15: free time in Ahaus

     

    18.30 Chinese restaurant, buffet

    19.30 return hostel

    LMA

    Tuesday 28 March

    8.30: discussing criteria of a good job interview;

    9.00 – 11.30:

    simulation of job interviews with entrepreneurs Pietsch, Volksbank Gronau-Ahaus, Shopware AG

    (2 students per country)

    final evaluation, tips from entrepreneurs

    (LMA concert hall; 3 smaller rooms)

     

    LMA

    12.15 – 13.00

    13.00 – 14.00 break

    14.10 – 15.10 trip to Dörenthe (hiking area)

    16.30 – 18.00: Tecklenburg (historical city), short visit, free time

     

    19.00- 20.00:

    Café Muse Ahaus (buffet);

    return hostel

    LMA

    Wednesday

     29 March

    9.00 – 12.00:

    Sonja Hüls – seminar on behaviour in private and business context

    (LMA concert hall)

    LMA

    12.15 – 13.00

    13.00 – 15.00:trip to Köln (Cologne)

    15 – 15.30 Cathedral

    15. 30 – 16.30 Roman Museum,

    16.30 – 18.00 free time.

    18 – 20.00: return trip Ahaus,

    20.00  - 21.00: Greek restaurant

    return to hostel

     

    LMA

     

     

    Thursday, 30 March

     

     

     

    8.30 - 9.00:

    explaining task, reviewing aspects to include in film

    9.00 – 12.00:

    students work on scenario for short film;

     

    teachers work on

    (further) project

    (LMA concert hall)

    (no stationary PCs available! Teachers: bring laptops or tablets if you want to do work)

     

     

     

     

    LMA 12.15 – 13.00

    break

    13.45: trip to school

     

     

     

    14. 00 – 20.00:

    students in host families

     

    teachers’ activities: to be decided

     

     

     

     

    teachers dine together (Schlosshotel, 18.00 – 19.45)

     

     

     

    LMA

    Friday, 31 March

    8.30 trip to school

    8.50 – 9.30:

    students work on scenario

    9.45 – 11.15: students visit classes; teachers visit classes or do work on PC

    11.15 – 11.45: presentation of scripts, selection of winner

    canteen 11.45 – 12.30

    12.45:  leave for Münster, check-in at youth hostel 14.00 – 14.40 walk to center

     

    15 – 16.30 : Guided city tour;

    16.30 – 18.45: free time 

    Münster:

    Aposto, Italian restaurant 19.00 – 21.00:

    (Food to be chosen ahead of time)

    Bring a national dance!!!

    Walk back to hostel;

    Germans return to Ahaus

     

    Evaluation of mobility

    Jugendgästehaus am Aasee

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Saturday, 1 April

    return

    5.00 (BG), 16-er Bus

    11.00 F, RO, Hoge

    12.00 SP, CR Hoge

     

     

     

     

    rooms to be vacated by 9.30; suitcases can be kept in hostel

    BG: lunchbags instead of breakfast

    Objectives

    1. activities / tasks
    • visiting a software company , learning about the skills required here and the functioning of a modern enterprise
    • setting up and discussing criteria of a successful job interview
    • simulating a job interview with “real” entrepreneurs
    • evaluating the quality of job interviews seen
    • presenting and discussing rules of social conduct and behavior in one’s country
    • reviewing the results of the project so far: skills required nowadays, what makes a “perfect employee”, what is essential in job interviews?
    • developing a scenario to give advice to students on the basis of the above findings
    1. job-related activities:
    • all of the above
    1. language skills (all in English):
    • drafting a CV and cover letter
    • understanding a company presentation
    • understanding a presentation about rules of social conduct (good behavior)
    • carrying out a job interview
    • discussing job-related and other issues
    • meeting and getting to know new people
    • understanding a guide during a city visit
    • presenting work results to the entire group
    • meeting a German family, learning some German words
    1. PC skills
    • using a EUROPASS-file to draft a CV
    • typing the made-up scenario made neatly
    • putting project results on TwinSpace
    • putting personal information and photos on TwinSpace
    1. Organization skills
    • forming groups where all the members co-operate
    • dealing with deadlines
    • presenting results of groupwork
    1. Social skills
    • meeting and getting to know people from 5 other countries
    • getting along in mixed-nationality tables and hostel rooms
    • dealing with difficulties – of language or opinon
    1. other (personal/ intercultural skills)
    • broadening one’s horizon by getting to know another country, its sights, its people, its culture (food, language, habits…)
    • becoming independent through experiences abroad
    • becoming self-confident through successful work, interviews,