Mobility / Visits

Please choose one of the following documentation sections:

4.1.	SEFES Meetings	4.1.1.	Meeting I Hamburg
		4.1.2.	Meeting II Kaunas
		4.1.3.	Meeting III Rzeszow
		4.1.4.	Meeting IV Reykjavik
		4.1.5.	Meeting V Rovaniemi
		4.1.6	Meeting VI Hamburg
4.2.	Individual Visits	4.2.1.	Asta and Rima visit to Rzeszow
		4.2.2.	Rima visit to Reykjavik
		4.2.3.	Sabine visit to Rzeszow
4.3.	Courses And Conferences	4.3.1.	Sequals Course
		4.3.2.	Synevanet conference in Hall 2005 (PPT)
		4.3.3.	Synevanet conference in Talinn 2006
		4.3.5.	Action Research (PPT)

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SEFES meeting IV - Reykjavík

March 30- April 2, 2005

The meeting in Reykjavík was a great success. All participants shared esperiences of success with Self Evaluation in a variety of ways. One the one hand there were presentations with everyone present. For example Werner Maas shared his experiences at Hall, and the Polish delegation told of their renewal in language teaching using the methods worked on in the project. A very interesting addition was the presentation by Hafdís Ingvarsdóttir of the University of Iceland , and it showed clearly that both the successes and problems we have run into are shared by others working on school development. 

A lot of the work was done in small groups, which then shared their work with the group. In this way a lot of information was shared, but sometimes some participants felt they were missing out on interesting insights. However, if done properly it seems this is the best way to organise a meeting such as this so that everyone gets to work on what interests him/ her.

The group met with our WebMaster, Hjörtur Hjartarson to address some of the issues there, the main result of that is to be found in the foundation of the Documents part of the Web.

The results of the meeting were that

• we would continue to work on evaluation in all its forms
• teachers would start working on evaluation portfolios
• all schools would go through a photo-evaluation
• a student conference will be held in Finland

At the end of the meeting we evaluated it and these were the results:

Meeting in Reykjavík – Evaluation!

Things to improve:

• Website needs to be improved.
• Meeting agenda should be sent in advance to everyone.
• Somebody should take minustes of results, not just at end
• More groupwork, decide groups before meeting?
• More oragnised documentation of what goes on at meeting.
• More information flow about on-going projects between meetiongs.
• Use e-mail and blog more.
• Gather together e-mails of all participants in Sefes
• Substitute teachers for local school.
• Welcoming participants.
• More common time, less group work.
• zu evenig möchlichkeiten zu hospitieren.
• viele informationen wurden wiederholt.
• stricter organisationmake every group-results visible.
• plan lesson – visit time
• evaluations in between for example days

Strong points:

• Good conclusions came out of the meeting to work with.
• new ideas
• getting up-to-date with what others are doing
• meeting at Ármann’s
• good information
• well organised school
• flexible program, good atmosphere
• learning about photo-evaluation
• putting down ways to create a culture of self-evaluation in schools
• Good discussions
• Activity between meetings
• positive attitudes
• well organized
• ‘walls don’t teach’ – Maria told about the unimportance of equipment for the learning process
• success of Barbara & English teachers in Poland
• Hafdís’s presentation shows we’re on the right way!
• hosts

All relevant points will be addressed for the meeting in Finland !

Ármann Halldorsen