My job-shadowing journal at Wien, Austria Austrian journal | Page 24

Global Education and European Teaching Strategies
2018-1-ES01-KA101-049441
It has been a great experience, especially to develop my own
plurilingual and pluricultural competence. It helped me to realize
how important it is to analyse the school organization and
management and the pedagogical approaches taking into account
the country and the school environment. We all talk about
plurilingualism and pluriculturalism but we should first clarify what
these concepts mean to us and what our needs are.
We started this journey expecting to find the perfect answers to our
local needs but by the end of the week we ended up thinking out of
the box and enriching our own vision with unexpected approaches
to dealing with languages, diversity and social inclusion.
The progressive school vision and the atmosphere achieved by the
GUS teams together with the distribution of the syllabi ensure the
upgrading of the students’ mindset. By helping them to switch to a
social mindset, we are on the right track to building up a global
mindset, which is indispensable to face the challenges of the XXI
Century successfully.
It has been an honour to visit this school and learn so much from
them. I wish to express my sincere gratitude to all the staff members
at Rahlgasse, especially to Mr. Redl and Ms. Helm. I know we will be
working together very soon!
Our last day at AHS Rahlgasse