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GLOBAL COMPETENCIES
WHO WE ARE
The Power of International Education
GLOBAL COMPETENCIES is the international platform of the
Austrian.American Educational Cooperation Association (www.aaeca.com)
It aims at offering the successful AAECA programs on a world-wide basis. The programs support the professional development of educators through study visits, language courses, work-placement and academies on focal educational issues.
If your institution would like to learn more about our programs, do not hesitate to contacts us:
Programs
Develop language skills
Experience cross-border teaching
Explore new culture and people
Experience different teaching and learning approaches.
Build up international educational networks
Global Competencies Academy
The GLOBAL COMPETENCIES ACADEMY VIENNA will provide international participants with the knowledge and skills to make them more productive, engaged and motivated, and will enhance their own professional development through studies, workshops and real time experience and access to actionable advice on how to succeed in cross-cultural work.
Goals
Participants will:
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Gain insights into Austrian/European life and culture.
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Gain insights into international institutions.
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Develop communicative and strategic competencies in a new environment.
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Establish professional and personal networks
Duration 8 - 12 week(s)
Costs (to be specified according to requirements)
STARS ASSISTANT Program
This project is an exchange program for English speaking student teachers who will be able to complete (a part) of their teaching requirement during a 4 week course in Austria.
Some of the course goals of this newly developed Program with US students include:
Student teachers gain work experience as Native Speaker Teacher Assistants (NSpTA) in Austrian Primary and Secondary Schools
The students assist teachers in Austria in teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL)
If agreed on, this study visit in Austria will be accepted as equivalent to the regular teaching requirement which is part of their BEd or MEd curriculum.
The pupils at the Austrian schools involved in the program get the opportunity to listen and talk to Native Speaker Teacher Assistants They gain first hand insight and information about life in an English-speaking country.
Austrian teachers involved have the possibility to co-operate with a NSpTA, getting to know different approaches of teaching language and different educational systems.
Duration: 8-12 weeks
Costs to be specified according to the requirements stated.
ONLINE
German Language and Austrian Culture
German Beginners‘ Class
SYLLABUS
The level of the course, A1, refers to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), which was developed and implemented by the Council of Europe
60 teaching units (à 45 minutes)
Duration: 1 semester
Start/end: according to students‘ schedule,
Group size: maximum of 12 students
German Advanced Class
SYLLABUS
The level of the course, B1, refers to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), which was developed and implemented by the Council of Europe.
60 teaching units (à 45 minutes)
CEFR-level according to placement
(approx A2-B1)
Duration: 1 semester
Start/end: according to students‘ schedule,
Group size: maximum of 12 students
Online CULTURAL EXPERIENCE (included in the German courses)
GLOBAL COMPETENCES brings the best of Austrian Culture to the students’ homes
2 Virtual SIGHTSEEING TRIPS of Vienna
Students will explore the most interesting places, monuments and buildings of Vienna and will get to know more about this this stunning city.
Study Visits
International Program
Visits to governmental organizations headquartered in Vienna: (will be selected according to the needs of the group and availability)
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The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
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The OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID)
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Office for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
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Office of the European Parliament/House of the European Union
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United Nations Office Vienna
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Austrian Parliament/Meeting with EU representatives from different parties
Etc.
Experiential Program in Vienna
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Special guided walking tour of the historical sights of the Inner City
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Four-hour guided bus tour in Vienna and outskirts
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Visit to Vienna’s English Theatre
Internship Program
Aim: Offering international students opportunities to experience vocational issues in Europe (in Austria in particular)
Internship program for students to learn about professional practice in Austria.
Practice sites are desirable for these interns to observe. At each site expect that a mentor or supervisor would be present at all times to enable the intern to understand the practice going on at that particular site.
The internship duration should be approximately 4 - 12 weeks.
Costs (to be specified according to the requirements of the students.)
School Development
The world of international education is a melting pot of individuals and learning with a global perspective.
Here are some initiatives how schools can cope with this development:
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Develop a new school concept (e.g. primary, secondary) focusing on global education.
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Promote schooling based on the Reggio Pedagogical Philosophy
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Develop a new school concept (e.g. primary, secondary) focusing on bilingual schooling.
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Change your schooling program in order to incorporate international issues.
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Install a new school subject on International Studies.
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Introduce Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL).
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Develop strategies how to teach the host country language to speakers of other languages.
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Introduce a foreign language in early childhood education.
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Create a language immersion or teaching training program at your institution.
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Develop expertise in curriculum design.
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Plan and implement whole school evaluation.
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Develop strategies on how to assess teachers and principals.
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Improve foreign/second language teaching at your institution.
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Install self-assessment components in the teaching/learning process.
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Support individualized teaching programs.
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Reorganize the structure of your educational institution.
