Teacher trainers perspective

As a teacher educator, taking part of international exchange, you are getting familiar with other countries’ educational systems and professional approaches. This makes it possible to extend your network of personal and professional international contacts and helps to understand that policies in your own schools or educational organizations might need some refining. During an exchange period, you will learn how to express yourself professionally in a multicultural and diverse environment and to get familiar with the experiences of “otherness”. These experiences will help you to gain intercultural competencies and understand diverse learners.

Click here – interview Meidi Sirk and Ranert Lindt

Watch the video where Meidi Sirk, lecturer of Vocational Education from Tallinn University talks with JAMK´s international exchange student Ranert Lindt. They are sharing experiences and bringing out similarities and differences between JAMK and Tallinn University.

Reflective task:

Please examine the policies and practices of intercultural learning in your own school/educational institute. Are the policies in your institution supporting intercultural learning? If not, which elements needs to be changed in your opinion?