• International practicum,  Professional Learning

    International practicum – another learning opportunity

    When most teacher educators hear the concept ‘international practicum’, they imagine groups of pre-service teachers boarding a plane and travelling to experience teaching and learning in another country. Teaching faculty from their institution usually accompany them.Since I began my teaching at the Oranim College of Education, I have been involved in two small international practicum projects, and I am about to embark on a larger one. All of these experiences have involved online or local mentoring.My first international mentoring experience involved accompanying two third-year students from Oranim who were chosen to fly to Lucerne, Switzerland, to experience teaching in a high school there. They lived with Swiss families for a…