ASEF ClassNet Stories

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• Exchanges between 9th Lyceum of Athens (Greece) & St. Mark’s Girls Senior Secondary School (India)

  Mrs Ioanna Psina, Principal at 9th Lyceum of Athens
  March 2014, Athens, Greece

  The exchange programme between 9th Lyceum of Athens and St. Mark’s Girls Senior Secondary School is one of the spin-off activities from the ASEF ClassNet Online Collaboration “SENSES”, which focused on the 5 senses, namely: hearing, smell, sight, touch and taste.

  The exchange programme is divided into two phases which included visit by the 13 students and a teacher from St. Mark’s School to Greece (29 Sep to 6 Oct 2013) as well as a return visit of 10 Greek students and 3 teachers from our school (8 to 15 December 2013).

• Exchanges between 9th Lyceum of Athens (Greece) & Spojena Skola (Slovakia)

  Mrs Ioanna Psina, Principal at 9th Lyceum of Athens
  March 2014, Athens, Greece

  In March 2014, we brought a delegation of 4 teachers and 24 students to Ivanka pri Dunaji (Slovakia). This exchange programme is a spin-off activity from the bilateral Online Collaboration organised between our school and Spojena skola titled “Mountainous Routes: A different Approach into Experiential Learning and Interactive Knowledge”.

• Exchanges between 9th Lyceum of Athens (Greece) & Marco Belli School (Italy)

  Mrs Ioanna Psina, Principal at 9th Lyceum of Athens
  March 2014, Athens, Greece

  The Greek students and their teachers received a warm welcome by the Headmaster of Marco Belli School in Protogruaro and members of the teaching staff, especially the two organisers of the exchange, Dr Milly Palladin and Dr Silvia Gulino. The students had a tour around the grounds of the school, visiting classrooms, laboratories, libraries, sports-halls and other facilities.

• Exchange Programme between Sekolah Sultan Alam Shah and Sekolah Islam Fitrah Al-Fikri

  Ms Chin Siew Siew, Teacher at Sekolah Sultan Alam Shah
  March 2011, Malaysia

  Thanks to the active involvement in ASEF ClassNet Online Collaborations, 2 schools were brought together to collaborate. In November 2010, Sekolah Sultan Alam Shah (SAS) in Putrajaya, Malaysia invited 15 students and 3 teachers of Sekolah Islam Fitrah Al-Fikri (SIF AL-Fikri) to our school for a 5-day homestay program.

  And as a counter visit, 9 students and 3 teachers of the ASPNet UNESCO Club of SAS made a visit to Depok, Indonesia from 11 to 15 March 2011. The 5-day visit cum homestay program was made possible with the kind hospitality of SIF Al-Fikri’s teachers, host parents and students. We had a most beneficial time there as activities were planned out with care from day 1 to day 5. We were received with such warm welcome even though it was almost midnight on the 11 March 2011. Students from both schools were very excited and happy to meet each other again.

• Exchange Program between Al-Azhar Islamic Schools and St. Mark’s Schools

  Mrs Wati Wardani, Teacher at Al-Azhar Islamic Senior High School 3
  , Jakarta, Indonesia

  In July 2010, 9 students and 2 accompanying teachers of Al-Azhar Islamic Senior High School 3 (known as SMA Islam Al-AZHAR 3), Jakarta visited St. Mark’s Senior Secondary Public School, Meera Bagh, New Delhi to start a face-to-face program between the two schools. The establishment of the partnership was initiated by two teachers from the two schools, Ms Wati Wardani and Ms Geeta Rajan who met each other during 8th ASEF Classroom Network Conference in Sønderborg, Denmark in October 2009 organised by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF).

• East–West Collaboration Conference 2013: Converging Culture and Nature Issues in the Classroom

  Ms Nina Feyruzi, Institute Director, Khatulistiwa Indonesia, and member of the ASEF ClassNet
  April 2013, Jakarta, Indonesia

  “I became a member of ASEF ClassNet in 2008, when I first participated in its conference in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, and ever since, I love being its member, I feel like I find a family of educators who loves to share passion of teaching and learning for a better education in the future.”

  The idea of organising this conference was actually coming from the international school conference organised by Millennia Institute of Singapore, one of school members of ASEF Classroom Network (ASEF ClassNet). When I was invited to the conference held that year by Millennia Institute in 2010, I was still a teacher in SMA 3 High school of Jakarta.

• East Speaks West, West Speaks East

  Mrs Edith Wolff, Co-ordinator at Global German Youth Connect
  September 2011, Germany

  “East Speaks West, West Speaks East” has been accepted to be presented in the 4th edition of the International Conference “ICT for Language Learning” which will take place in Florence, Italy on the 20 -21 October. This conference has the aim to promote and share good practice and transnational cooperation in the field of the application of ICT to language learning and training. It is also an excellent opportunity for the presentation of previous and current language learning projects funded by the European Commission and by other sources.

• Dreams Come True

  Ms Hannele Puolakka, Teacher at Lappeenrannan Lyseon Lukio, Finland
  January 2017, Meera Bagh, India

  Three years ago I participated in the ASEF ClassNet project “Language – A Mantle of Communication” and I made friends with the project coordinator Ms Anjali Handa. One day during the project I told her how wonderful it would be if she could come with her students to Lappeenranta, Finland. “Why not, yes it would be interesting”, she answered. And so it happened. We had a group of students and Ms Handa for one wonderful week in my school Lappeenrannan Lyseon lukio. We received a return call to visit St. Mark’s Girls Senior Secondary School. I wrote an application to Finnish National Agency for Education but I was almost sure it is not possible to get money for this. But as Walt Disney has said, “All our dreams come true, if we have the courage to pursue them”. We were very lucky and got the money.

• Cultural Exchange Programme – India Meets Malaysia

  Ms Anjali Handa, Global Co-ordinator at St. Mark's Girls Senior Secondary School, Meera Bagh, New Delhi, India
  March – April 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  True education involves knowledge of many things; with some of the most important aspects being culture, language and food of other nations. Edmund Burke once said, “Education is not just a parcel of books but an intercourse with the world, with men and with affairs”.

  To achieve this very end, a group comprising 10 students from St. Mark’s Girls Senior Secondary School, New Delhi, India and their two teachers, Ms Anjali HANDA and Ms Shruti SHARMA, embarked on a student exchange programme across Malaysia, visiting Sekolah Menengah Sains Selangor and Sekolah Menengah Sains Seri Puteri (Kuala Lumpur), Sekolah Menengah Sains Muzaffar Syah (Melaka), Sekolah Menengah Sains Sultan Ahmad Shah (Pahang) and Sekolah Menengah Sains Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra (Kelantan).

• Cultural Exchange between France, Sweden and Bulgaria

  Professor Laurence Barbier, Teacher at Lycee Elie Cartan, La Tour du Pin, France
  November 2016, La Tour du Pin, France

  Hosting two foreign groups at the same time was a new experience and a challenge for our school, Lycée Elie Cartan in La Tour du Pin, France.

  We welcomed 14 students from St Kliment Ohridski, Sofia, Bulgaria, with whom we have been collaborating for 5 years now, and to whom I owe my first participation in the ASEF Classroom Network Conference in 2015! At the Conference, I met Ms Berit ANDERSSON, who was in charge of the group of 16 students from Ebba Pettersson, Göteborg, Sweden.