Case Studies

One Year:

• "There is no doubt that teaching abroad has embellished my current practice, and both schools have expressed pleasure at receiving a fresh perspective."
  
  
• "Spending a year in Canada was a superb opportunity for myself and my family to experience a different kind of life."
  
  
• "the opportunity to exchange has contributed greatly to my professional development"
  
  
• "I am grateful for the experience of working in Australia, which has enhanced my knowledge of children's social development"
  
  
• "I therefore feel privileged to have experienced contrasting educational philosophy, which will allow me to use a combined approach in my own classroom in the future
  
  
• "Everything was settled by Christmas and relationships and backup improved greatly. By summer I would have liked to have taught in the school for another year

Short term

• "The pupils showed appreciation and kindness. This endearing attitude was summed up in an email I received from a pupil after my return to Scotland: "At our school we don't get many visitors, so to us 'Glendalians' it was something wonderful when you came to Glendale in particular, on your visit to Mitchell's Plain. All the guys in 11B would just love it if you could come and visit again or even if we could come and visit you." After a trip filled with so many memorable moments, for me, that said it all."
  
  
• "Through the exchange, the video and the sharing of experiences we hope to challenge the views of Matravers students and develop a new generation of global citizens."
  
  
• "The possibilities of how this project will benefit school and community are endless."
  
  
• "This exchange visit was extremely positive and useful from both perspectives. The teachers and children in Bangladesh were inspired to learn and try out new teaching and learning styles. The teachers from Oldham learnt a great deal about the difficulties facing schools in Bangladesh, but also what great enthusiasm there is for learning."

New Study Visits:

• "Promoting Citizenship was the focus of the trip and yet the experience challenged many of our own principles and philosophies on education and personally has forced me to reconsider the personal and social dimension of the curriculum in the UK."
  
  
• "The whole experience was one I can safely say none of us will ever forget; treated like visiting royals we were given access to developing curriculum, township schools and an insight into the heritage and effects of the apartheid system from a range of perspectives
  
  
• "The study visit certainly has served as the start of something for me. It has broadened my vision and focused my ideology and left me wanting to learn more about other educational systems."
  
  
• "As the implementation of cross curricular citizenship education becomes a priority in schools across the UK the opportunity to investigate and learn from another nation was both fortuitous and welcome."
  
  
• "The visit was particularly useful from the heritage and multicultural aspects of our study and we have returned with a wealth of comparative data, resources and ideas, freely shared with us by a number of professionals at departmental and school level."
  
  
• "There is pride in providing education for your children. Again, one compares this to the attitudes regarding education in Britain and I feel we could all learn something from South African attitudes."
  
  
• "I am very privileged to have had the opportunity to visit this country and meet just a few of the inspiring people, some of whom live and work under difficult conditions, to whom it is home."
  
  
• "Having spent time in New Brunswick observing pupils in the French programme, I felt inspired, returning to England with many new ideas and strategies I hoped to implement in the MFL department within my school."
  
  
• "Observation of teaching and learning in another country cannot fail to provide us with a wealth of information and experiences, which enhance our everyday practice at school. Sharing expertise and ideas ensures that our pupils continue to be provided with an enjoyable and challenging learning environment."