Lehrende tragen eine hohe Verantwortung für den erfolgreichen Bildungsprozess ihrer Schüler/innen und Studierenden. In Albanien wird am 7. März traditionell der Tag der Lehrenden zelebriert, um ihre herausragenden Leistungen zu würdigen. Anlässlich dieses besonderen Tages hat die albanische Studentin Luiza Spahiu, die einen Erasmus+ Aufenthalt in Österreich absolvierte, ihre Dankbarkeit und Wertschätzung gegenüber den Lehrenden der KPH Wien/Krems in einer herzlichen E-Mail zum Ausdruck gebracht. Durch ihr Erasmus+ Erlebnis konnte sie nicht nur ihre Motivation zum Unterrichten wiederfinden, sondern auch wertvolle Erfahrungen sammeln. Die begeisterte Erasmus+ Studentin gewährt uns spannende Einblicke in ihre Zeit an ihrer Gasthochschule.
Experience report about my stay at Kirchliche Pädagogische Hochschule Wien/Krems
My name is Luiza Spahiu and I am from Albania. I am studying primary Education (grade 1-5), currently I am on my last semester of Bachelor in Albanian University. It’s a private university in the centre of Tirana.
When I received the news from my home university that there was an amazing opportunity such as Erasmus+ I was in my first semester of Bachelor. I asked more about it and I got told that my home university, Albanian University, has signed an agreement with "Kirchliche Pädagogische Hochschule Wien/Krems (KPH)" for Erasmus+ program. At the time, KPH was the only university with which Albanian University made an agreement for Erasmus+. That`s why I didn’t have the opportunity to make a choice where to go or even if I wanted to go or not. So, of course, I decided to go.
I stayed in Vienna for a semester, I went there at the end of February and left at the beginning of July. I thought I would have it hard to adapt with my student life at KPH, but in fact it had a lot of similarities with the one at home university. We had to attend classes and follow lectures, do some mini projects, be part of clubs if we wanted and follow conferences, etc. What I found different were some special classes only for the Erasmus+ students like Drama, Incoming Austria, European Village, etc., which were entertaining and made me and other students connect and understand more one another. Also the internship part, which in Albania I used to do only in 2 days of a week and in Austria I did it in 3 days with less hours to follow.
I can say that the teachers at KPH were so nice and ready to help us with everything. They were so welcoming; at the beginning I had some small issues with papers or with finding the location of a school placement and they helped us solving them. As for the part with following lectures and doing the assignments they were so clear in everything they said or asked. The teachers of KPH campus where I did some part of my internship were so good and well prepared, the way they managed the class, the way they taught, their communication with the students was so good, the atmosphere in class made me to want to be part of it. They also showed me where to find different materials for different topics, websites, and so on. Everyone was so lovely and easy to communicate which made it hard when the time came to go back to Albania.
After I had been able to be part of Erasmus+ and to see more ways of teaching and how to make it fun, I could see how much I was lacking, even why I was just in my second year of studying. It made me realize that I need to work even more. I was able to see some amazing models of teaching in primary school. During my time there I started to understand some words of a teacher from my home university. She used to say to me and my friends that teaching should be fun, students need to be happy that they are in school, etc. During my stay in Vienna and specially during my internship I was able to realize all of it. I started to practice this in Vienna and also now that I am in Albania. Even why I am just doing my internship pupils give me positive feedback about the topic I taught and how they felt during that time.
I personally had an amazing experience as an Erasmus+ student that is one of the reasons I suggest that. But the main reason is that teachers need to know so many things about themselves, they need to see and experience as many things as possible, so they will have much knowledge and will not feel insecure when they teach.
Thank you!
Text: Luiza Spahiu
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