Malene and Christian in Hamburg - day #6

Our last videoblog from our wonderful trip to Hamburg:



Hope you have enjoyed watching them - we sure enjoyed making them :-)

Now we are finally back home (after a quick stop in Lübeck) - tired but very inspired from a fantastic week in Hamburg!

Malene and Christian in Hamburg - day #5

Just another videoblog from our stay in Hamburg:

Malene and Christian in Hamburg - day #4

Hope you enjoy our videoblog from our 4th day in Hamburg:

Malene and Christian in Hamburg - day #3

Here is our videoblog for our 3rd day in Hamburg:

Malene and Christian in Hamburg - day #2

Another exciting day in Hamburg - enjoy our video blog!

Malene and Christian in Hamburg - day #1

We arrived in Hamburg Sunday evening.
The first evening were spent watching the Germany-Australia football match on a local café at Lange Rheine.

Then Monday the "official" program started, and here's the first part of our video blog:



Hope you enjoyed it :-)

Trine and Gitte Sightseeing in Hamburg Wednesday

We had a fantastic afternoon with Michael and Cornelia. We drove down Reperbahn and went to the new harbour front. After a fine lunch, we were on a harbour trip and saw the ship yard , many impressive new buildings and some BZ houses. Then we continued to Jenich Park , very beautiful building in a fine park

In the photo you see Blankenese and Trine and Michael in Jenich Park
After that we saw Blankenese , a bit like Dragør but with a lot of steps and finished in Altona , where we visited Mercado , a markethall.
After 6½ hours of sightseeing Michael took us to a nice German restaurant , near our hotel

Trine and Gitte visiting 2. Chance Wednesday morning

We met Volker Westphal in Rebus Süderelbe and went from there to Neugrabener to visit Die 2. Chance ("2nd. Chance" ) A project for young students ( 13- 14 years old)
Rebus work together with IN VIA ( http://www.invia-hamburg.de/) in this project. It is in a flat and doesn't resemble school. We met four young men, and most of the time in the project they are working with relations
A lot of the pupils don't go back to school. But 2. Chance has connection with different workplaces and various production schools ( Produktions Schule ) They had success with a music project with Safet , a young teacher , who arranged and recorded a piece of music , with them.. They were VERY proud of that. We had brought a CD with Outlandish , which they liked.A very interesting morning.
We have the music , but I can't put in on the blog

In the photo you see Safet, Harald and Volker, who are all involved in the project

Goodbye Pärnu Friday 11th of June 2010

In the morning we checked out from our "Old people's home" and went to the centre to go for the last visit to Rehabilitateing Centre "Future". Unfortunately it was cancelled so we just had a cup of coffee, a Monica made nice cake, a final chat about the week and we gave them our presents - some Anthon Berg chocolate and a Holmegaard thing.


It has been an informative and interesting week. The estonian system is in many aspects like the Danish. They have the same kind of problems with the students, but in Pärnu we met a centre with extended possibilities of cooperation between the different experts/counsellors. They work in the same building, share coffee room, participate in teambuilding and networking inside the centre and the most important thing they had an obvious possibility of cooperating close around each student. We got the feeling that they had a very positive and cheerful attitude to their jobs and to their collegues.

In fact we met a obvious dedication among the specialists at all our visits. They were concerned about the young people especially those with special needs. In spite of the economical crisis they continue to encourage them all the time.
Though it has been an informative week we missed to meet more students. We haven't had the opportunity to talk to the students as they either were about to pass their exams or had already started holiday, so we had to try to find them around town and in the streets of Pärnu.

The centre is financed by EU and the project is running till end of June 2011. After that they still know what will happen. We hope that they will find the means to continue their important work with the young people.

Estonia has in few years developed the internet so that everybody has access to wireless internet all over - in the parks, in the busses, at schools and they were the first country in Europe that had their elections via internet. Here we have a lot to learn in Denmark!!

Goodbye and thank you very much for a pleasant stay especially to Silja, Kätlin, Monica and Carolyn. We look forward to see you in Denmark.



Now we are off for a week-end in Tallinn.

Just another schoolday. Thursday 10th June 2010

On the other side of the river, in the middle of the forest we reached Pärnu Vocational School.
The school is only 7 yrs old, and still under extension. It is partly financed by EU. Just now 1300 students are attendíng classes, they have 180 employees, including 118 teachers. In the whole of Estonis there are 27 vocational schools and this school Valdeko Galit (counsellor) proudly told is the biggest in the country. It's a very popular school and last 900 applied, but only 480 were admitted. They have only 17% drop-outs. As in Denmark they have school practical periods as well as practical periods in companies. It seems a little easier to find these kind of trainee agreements as the student doesn't get any salary during the periods - free workers for the companies.

View from students' cafeteria to the left and to the right view from teachers' restroom

Students preparing for exams.

Below you see one of the eager and certainly clever students finishing vocational school.

The assignment

The solution

Graduation

In the afternoon we went 60 km out in the countryside to visit Tõstamaa Kool in one of the cities outside Pärnu. It is a former manor and is now used mainly as a basic- and secondary school, but they also have a museum telling about the history of the house and ancient times.

Yesterday actually the government decided a new legislation that gives many schools some problems and that goes for Tõstamaa too. It means that they on secondary school level have extend their number of curriculums (studieretninger) from 2 - 3 and schools in the countryside are very often too small for that. At the picture you can see the impressive entrance/welcome you meet when you enter.

To the left you see the teachers' workingplaces - a dream for a danish teacher. To the right is a kind of SFO in the historic cellar - mainly for the younger pupils. Although the surroundings are exciting they have their problem with humidity in this deep cellar.

Trine and Gitte in Hamburg Tuesday

TUESDAY 8th. of June
We left at 7 o'clock and went to meet Dagmar Lübbers at PEPE , a special project for children from 7 to 9 years, who cannot fit into the ordinary school system .
They make personal aims for behavior for each pupil and train social skills , by encouraging good behaviour and ignoring bad behaviour. They had four boys and they were working with different things concerning the world Cup i South Africa. After the lesson , the teacher and the pupil evaluated the lesson together. We were not allowed to take photos in class witout permission , but in the photo you can see ,what sort of aims for social behaviour , they work with.
We had lunch with Claudia Behlau and celebrated her birthday. In the afternoon we visited Ulrike Oppermann at BbB ( Beratung für besondere Begabungen ) Counselling for very talented students , where they make special projects for this group . We got an interesting slide show to take back to Denmark

Trine and Gitte arriving and visiting Kinderbauernhof Monday

MONDAY the 7th. of June

We arrived Monday morning at 4.30 ... We met Dagmar Lübbers from Rebus Stellingen for breakfast and had a short introduction to Rebus as an organisation. In the afternoon we met Claudia Behlau and visited " Kinderbauernhof , a small farm in a housing area , where children can come all day. Some are pupils who cannot cope with school and they can go there two or three days a week . We had an introduction by Ulrike, who was very involved in the project and very enthusiastic about it and she showed us all the animals

A hard day at work Wednesday 9th of June 2010

Our day started at the Noorte Infopunkt (the Estonian name for Pärnu Counselling Centre) where we had another lecture on the system especially concerning the cooperation in the centre and what to do with students with special needs.

From here we have a few slides, but we didn't manage to transfer them to the blog at the moment.

After lunch we went to visit Pärnu Secundary School for Adult Students.

The students attending this school haven't managed to pass secondary or even basic school. At the moment the average age is 20 yrs. ranging from 17 to 50.
There is teaching at the school from 9-16 and from 16-21. The students can choose which schedule they want to follow. Some of the teachers teach for twelve hours, but then of course they have Friday off :-)






Estonian language is easy!!!








A view of the teachers' room










As many of the students are parents the school has provided a nursery where their children are looked after.

From the secundary school we continued directly to the Youth Centre.

Pärnu Youth Centre: A centre for young people between 14 and 26 yrs. A great part of the young people in Pärnu City visit the Centre regurlarly. They can rehearse with their bands, they can participate in sports, play poker, hang around the bar etc.

Only the leader Christine (see picture) is paid. The rest of the employees work voluntarily.
Mostly boys use the center. The girls only participate at parties or concerts.

Tour around Pärnu College Tuesday 8th of June 2010

Birgit from college gave us a tour around the house and showed us a slideshow about the university system and organization in Estonia.
















The building as such was quite new and interesting. They are waiting for an extension that should have been ready in 2009. At the picture you can see that the plans will double up the area. The dark part on the drawing is the existing school.







The library were situated in the old part - an old corc factory - sending us back in time. Although it was old it was restored in a modern way. In 2005 they had a storm that rised the water 3 meters above normal level and and flooded the library - they walked in water to the waist.




The atmosphere at the college seemed very relaxed and cosy. The teachers and the students shared several rooms e.g. the sauna and the coffee room.

Visiting Pärnu Study Counselling Centre Monday 7th June 2010

We were picked up by Silja and Kätlin at 9.30 at our hotel. To our surprise they told that two other Danes - Anne and Henrik - from UU Copenhagen Valby team were here too. We had an introduction with Silja, Kätlin, Monica - carreer counsellors and Carolyn - a psychologist. They told us about the different kinds of jobs at the center, what there main tasks were, targetgroups, how many employees and so on.
After that we went to have lunch at a nice garden restaurant nearby.



At the lunchtable Henrik and Anne from UU-Cph., Jonna from UU- Oresund, Silja and Kätlin from Pärnu Study Counselling Centre.


In the afternoon we visited Eesti Töötukassa - Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund. Here we met Gerli who told us about the number of unemployed people in Pärnu County. At the moment they have approx. 13% unemployed in all, but among 16-25 yrs. the percentage is approx. 20%. The office seemed quite busy. They were a little worried because in spite of the oncoming tourist season it was hard to find jobs. The unemployment fee is about 1000,- eek a month - approx. 500,- dkr.

Monica from Counselling Centre and Gerli from Unemployment Centre.

In the evening we had dinner at a newly opened yacht club at the river. "Nothing to cry out loud about!!!!!" But anyway a very cosy evening with our new friends from UU Cph and the Estonian staff Kätlin, Silja and Carolyn - 3 very happy and cheerful girls.













From the Yacht Club.

Sightseeing in Pärnu Tuesday June 8th 2010

A little nice restaurant where we had our dinner.
For the first time it was possible to sit outside in the evening.
Then the mosquitoes got their dinner too.

From a very cosy little café, where a nice cup of coffee and a delightful piece of cake.

To the left: The red tower - a corner tower of the medieval fortress used to be a prison in the past. Today it is a place where art and handicraft goes together.

To the right: as it shows we have got our street names in Pärnu.

From the beautiful Pärnu beach - unfortunately the weather wasn't very inviting.

We didn't go there as Finn was not allowed to pass this sign.

Our favourite waitress. She was so bright and we had a nice talk with her about education, counselling and her career plans.

Arriving Estonia - Sunday 6. june 2010

After a pleasant flight we arrived in Tallinn, found a taxi to the bus station, and luckily the bus left shortly after. From Tallinn to Pärnu is 130 km which lasted about 2 hours. A slow and quite boring drive. The landscape is totally flat, the road very straight, but we saw two storchs. Unfortunately we didn't have to buy any beverage or food, so we arrived almost starving.

Our hotel is a spa hotel, which means that we are surrounded by old mostly finish ( not finished) limpering people getting different treatments - too bad we didn't bring our own rollators :-)

After arriving we went to the beach, had a pizza and straight to bed.









View over the hotel diningroom

Look behind Finn. Maybe a rollator

will race by!

Today we started at the Vocational Center We had the oppertunity to make a presentation for the Estonian hosts about the Danish guidance system, guidance centers and our daily tasks and the Estonians tried different Danish exercises and web-sites Then we had a good tour around the Vocational Education Center. The school has a lot of new and good workshops for training different trades. The students have good opportunities to practies different elements from their education in the schools restaurant, hotel, furniture production, hair dresser and in the wellness center. Finally the counsellors of Denmark and Estonia had a challenge in the wood shop - we were told to make a butter knife.

Tuesday 18. May

Early Tuesday morning we visited Tartu Russian Lyseum. Two nice young 11. grade girls guided us at the school. We particpated in a Math lesson where the teacher tried to relate math to jobs as musicians and other professions. We also had a talk with the students about their dreams and wishes for their future.
In the afternoon we visited two other schools.

Andrei and Aage at the river

After a nice welcome at Tartu Educational Vocational Center the counselors introduces thenselves and their different tasks at the Center. We briefly introduced ourselves and our tasks in UU Vest and UU Själsö.
Then we had a splendid lunch in the restaurant of the Center. The lunch was preparred by the students .
In the afternoon we were guided on a city tour by 3 students studying Tourism & Economics
We have had 25 degrees and sun all day

1st day of visit in

After a pleasant flight and a small sightseeing in Tartu by night we are now ready for pick up by our host Andrei The sun is shinning and the temperature is now at 9 o'clock about 20 degrees. Nice compared to the 8 degrees, rain and clouds we left yesterday in Copenhagen

Visit in Tartu

Monday morning we met our host Andrei and went to the Tartu Information and Career Center of Tartu Vocational Education Center to meet with the other workers. The day started with a very good introduction to the Guidance center and all their tasks. Tasks such as pre-vocational training programmes, career guidance and planning, coordination of different events in relation to career guidance, instructions of teachers and guidence with ICT. After the presentation we, the danish partners, made a short presentation of the Danish educational system.


Guided tour in Tartu by students of tourism, from Tartu Vocational Education Centre.
Seven well-prepared students guided us through the old city of Tartu and gave a throughly introduction to the city and its history. During the tour we were shown the University of Tartu, Angels Bridge, the Dome Church Ruins, the Town Hall and all the famous men in the history of Estonia and Tartu. (pictures will come later)

Tuesday
Tuesday morning we were picked up by the hotel, and went to Tartu Tamme Secondary School. At the school we visited a medical class having a english lesson. During the visit we were introduced to the students considerations about career-plans and how they have achieved informations about their future studies and job-possibilities. Futhermore were we introduced to the career-guidence and the school history by the schools career-coordinator, Merit. She told about different work-shops and presentations, student- and work-shadow among others. After that she told about her considerations about development of guidance-programs.

After lunch we visited Tartu Russian Lyceum, a Russian school with primary and upper secondary education. First a very well-prepared guided tour round the well-kept school by two students. After that we were introduced a 11. grade class, which vere working with career-guidance theory. Later presented we the class for the Danish education- and guidance-system, and finally a discussion with the students of their career-thougths and their outcome of the career-guidance, and last but not least the students´were very astonished to hear about the Danish way of career-guidance and counselling.

Finally we visited Tartu Anne Youth Centre, a youth centre next to the Russian secondary, were the young people, from 8 to 25 years, can come in their sparetime for free. The youth centre offers leisure-time fascilities for young people, eg. computer access, photo- and video-classes and hiking. Beside that aerobic-classes among others for a small amount of money. The centre was open for all between nine am to nine pm. The centre aims to unite the two cultures in the local area, eg. by summer camps.(billeder kommer senere)

Wedensday our programme started at the Tartu Emajõe Kool - Estonian State School for the blind and visually impaired. The headmaster of the school told about the school which is the only school for blind children in Estonia. The school offer well qualified education for the pubils. Since it is the only school posibility for visually impaired children some og them stay at a home near the school and goes home to the family in the week ends.

At the Vocational Center we met with the social workers and psychologist who take care of the students wellbeing and helps them handling difficulties during their education.

Then we had a good tour around the Vocational Education Center. The school has a lot of new and good workshops for training different trades. The students have good opportunities to practies different elements from their education in the schools restaurant, hotel, furniture production, hair dresser and in the wellness center. During our visit we meet a group of lower secondary pupils who were visiting the school as an introduction to the school - a guidance activity before making their finally choise concerning future education. Finally the counsellors of Denmark and Estonia had a challenge in the wood shop - we were told to make a butter knife. Good Practice!

Thursday we had the oppertunity to make a presentation for the Estonian hosts about the Danish education system, guidance centers and our tasks, the education of the counsellors among other things. The danish counselling system differs a lot from the Estonian system by the number of counselling sessions and the cumpolsory element in guidance. The Estonian workers were very interrested in the Danish carrer plan. we had a very good and interesting discussion about guidance in our two countries. Ulle had made an arrangement and a tour for us at the V.E.T school in the other part of the town. Where we were introduced to the buisness education, auto, metal works - and the cousellors had a new and practical challenge to day - we were to make an old fashion "shoe horn". The day ended at the famous bar "Gun powder bar" with the worlds highest ceiling - 10.2 m. - We had a special dish: potatosoup in breadbowl! delicious. it was a perfect ending at a perfect day. - and then we went midnight shopping.....

Friday we all met for morning coffee at the VET Center to make a summary of the stay and to talk about the outcome. Both the Estonian and the Danish consellors agreed that it has been a profitting experience - we have learned a lot about the system og guidance and education in the two countries. It could be very interesting to be able to welcome the Estonian counsellors in Denmark next year. After the official program we went to the old city of Tartu to visit some of the many museums. And now it is time for us to return to Denmark with a lot of good experiences and a lot of new ideas.

REBUS-BESØG UGE 16 Solvejg Petersen og Kamilla Palsgaard

EKSEMPLER PÅ, HVAD VI MØDTE I LØBET AF UGEN:

MANDAG:
Besøg på REBUS MITTE - og et projekt for unge med “Schulangst”. Eleverne har brug for hjælp

til at færdiggøre deres ”Schulabschluss” – 9.klasses afgangsprøve. Alle eleverne har en eller anden form for angst forbundet med dét at gå I skole, og har eller har haft psykiske problemer eller sygdomme.

TIRSDAG:
Besøg på “Gewerberschule Werft und Hafen” – et projekt, som kombinerer praktik/trainee i en virksomhed og værkstedsundervisning. Eleverne arbejder med containerpakning og –logistik. Skolen har kraner, trucks, containere og skibe, så eleverne kan lære alle sider af faget. Eleverne lærer fx at fastspænde emner med remme og kæder. Projektets mål er, at eleverne gennem trainee-forløb får kendskab til branchen, bliver mere afklarede og evt. får læreplads i et af havnens mange firmaer.

ONSDAG:
Besøg på en nystartet produktionsskole i Steilshoop: “STYLZ”. Skolen er inspireret af de danske. For unge, som endnu ikke har deres 9.klasses “Schulabschluss” . Skolen bl.a skal producere og vedligeholde skateboardramper til et nyt skateboardcenter, som skal ligge ved siden af skolen. I øjeblikket arbejder eleverne mest med udbygning af skolen.
Website: http://www.stylz-prod.de/

TORSDAG:
Besøg på REBUS Billstedt. Her er 2 projekter i gang, som begge henvender sig til elever med problemer i skolen – både fagligt og socialt.Eleverne i projekterne har ofte lav selvtillid og lavt selvværd. Det ene projekt, ”2.chance” er et samarbejde mellem REBUS og de lokale skoler, som begge stiller lærerkræfter til rådighed. Desuden er projektet støttet af EU´s sociale fond. Fælles for projekterne er, at eleverne er der i en periode, indtil de er klar til at komme tilbage til deres normale skoler.
FREDAG:
Besøg på “Gesamtschule Ida-Ehre” og projektet ”TRANSFER” – et étårigt forløb for elever, som har afsluttet deres “Schulabscluss”, men som ikke er klar til at tage en erhvervsuddannelse. For de fleste af eleverne, er hovedproblemet deres manglende skolefærdigheder. Eleverne får i løbet af året to perioder med praktik i to forskellige virksomheder. Som regel er eleverne i praktik 3 dage og i skole 2 dage i løbet af en ”praktikuge”. I skolen arbejder de med skolefag, social træning og deres oplevelser og erfaringer fra deres praktikpladser. Samtidig arbejdes der med at forberede eleverne til at starte på en erhvervsuddannelse.

Askesky

Pärnu delegationen (Isabelle og Annette) er sat på stand by - og vejr udsigterne ser ikke lovende ud. Vi havde ellers set frem til en spændende uge.

die Rückfahrt nach Dänemark war sehr toll

Frau Heike Carstens und Frau Muradiye Karakus

Wir sind sehr dankbar, dass die Leitung von REBUS und die zwei frauen Heike und Muradiye so viel und gut Vorarbeit für uns gemacht haben.

Es war eine gute Woche mit Inspiration / Freundlichkeit / viel Spass / gute Athmosphäre / sprachliche Forderungen / neue Erkenntnisse / und viel anderes.

Wir hoffen wieder die REBUS-Mitarbeiteren und Mitarbeiterinnen in Dänemark zu treffen.

Sie sind bei uns herzlich wilkommen.

BI Lernort Praxis

Wir haben die Projekte "Lernort Praxis" in Industrienstrasse besucht. Hier arbeitet Herr Frank Schuber , REBUS, mit ungefähr 12 Schüler und Schülerinnen.

Jeden Freitag bekommen die Schüler und Schülerinnen Taschengeld und auch Frühstück. Die anderen Tagen machen sie in der Projekte Mittagessen.

Die Schüler und Schülerinnen bekommen 1 Euro jeden Tag- aber wenn sie zu spät kommen, kein Taschengeld. Punktlich jeden Tag sonst kein Geld.

Ungefähr 65 % von ihnen haben Migrations Hintergrund. Sie wohnen oft in Wilhelmsburg.

Der Lernort Praxis ist für Schüler und Schülerinnen aus Klasse 8.

Generelle Zielsetzung ist die Rückführung in die allgemein bildende Schule.
Frau Susanne Böhmcker ist die Leiterin von der Projekte.

Sie arbeitet mit REBUS und der Schule zusammen.