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Educating the World

Are you interested in internationalisation and global citizenship in education? Do you want to learn how to develop accessible and interactive teaching materials? Do you want to work on your feedback skills and learn how to use these skills in an online, international educational platform? Would you like to receive advice on professional dilemmas and learn how to give professional advice yourself?

Then, this is the minor for you!
Starts in
February
Ec
30 ECTS
Location

This minor is designed for exchange students and students already studying in the Netherlands and is therefore taught in English. During this minor, you will be working with aspects of global citizenship and how these are implemented in different countries in Europe and worldwide. You will do this in four 'windows' or modules with an authentic task for a real-life client at the end. Meanwhile, you are introduced to the concept of Flipping the Classroom, you learn to develop interactive teaching materials, give feedback to pupils/students on the international educational platform MySchoolsNetwork and gain experience with online peer consultation in an international setting.

Minor content

This minor is modelled on the principles of Design Based Education; a wide range of (guest) lectures, workshops and excursions will be offered about the European agenda on education and other priorities and aspects of education. Besides, you will learn about the design and development of educational ICT.

You will work towards the following learning outcome:
To complete this minor you will demonstrate that you have acquired a thorough sense of what it means to be a teacher in a European and global context, both on the basis of desk research, personal experience and design carried out in an international community of practice.

Via the various ‘windows’ that make up this minor, you will collect the evidence necessary to comply with the minor learning outcome. 

This minor is offered by the Secondary Education Teacher English programme.

Structure of the minor

The minor consists of several ‘windows’ that have all been designed to offer you excellent opportunities to collect evidence for your portfolio and to create an immersive intercultural and international experience for you with a focus on educational innovation.

 

The minor has the following ‘windows’ or modules:

  • Flipping the Classroom (10 ECT)
  • Online mentoring (5 ECT)
  • Sharing Workplace Dilemmas (5ECT)
  • Teaching the World (10 ECT)

Flipping the Classroom and Online Mentoring will be taught in the first half of the minor, and Sharing Workplace Dilemmas and Teaching the World will be taught in the second half.

Click here for the online environment we use during this minor so you can get an idea of the schedule, learning outcomes per ‘window’, the classroom and your teachers.

 

Study features

Starts in
February
Location
Language
English
European credits
30 ECTS
Minor type
For specific bachelor programmes & Incoming Exchange

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