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THE COMENIUS FOUNDATION

The Good Friday Declaration - Comenius is a Beacon of Learning, Learning is a Source of Hope, Hope is a Force for Good. The idea of "Foundation" is intended to encourage and motivate teachers and their students to look upon learning as the foundation or corner-stone to hope and goodness which are essential to a fulfilling life. Comenius/eTwinning celebrates the concept of Challenge in every sense of the word. Like me, many of you and your students have a Comenius/eTwinning footprint letting you experience a range of teaching and learning challenges via one or more parts of the Comenius programme, from real-life partnerships, Comenius Assistants to any number of eTwinning projects. This project wants to help you reconfigure those elements of Comenius/etwinning experience by injecting a real sense of Challenge into your ideas. This may be found within your field of expertise or it may be just beyond it. Here just a few hypothetical examples: As a teacher of languages I have never experienced teaching a language to someone who cannot read or write. Where would I begin? A teacher of physical education may never have experienced trying to teach someone who is unable to walk. Where would he or she begin? A teacher of music may never have experienced trying to teach a person who is hard of hearing to sing. Where would he or she begin? A teacher of politics may never have experienced teaching the principles of democracy to someone who has only lived in a totalitarian society. Where would he or she begin? The answer in each case is - Here, at eTwinning.
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