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Hello, my name is Andrea and I'm a secondary school English teacher at Comunidad de Madrid State Schools.

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This is my first digital project to upload to Mediateca and I'm doing so after completing a course titled

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Leadership and Management Skills for Bilingual Coordinators, led by Rachel Kelly.

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We were asked to develop an action plan to carry out in our schools.

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Now, I'm not a bilingual coordinator, and I believe next year I will be teaching vocational education and training in English.

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So who are the stakeholders in my project, in my action plan?

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Well, they're teachers, students, administrators, non-teaching staff, VET employers, families and education authorities.

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So I've taken all these into account to develop my plan.

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And what about the issue, the driving question that leads my action plan?

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Well, last year I noticed a discordance between students in sección and programa.

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And this gap is possibly due to occur also in vocational training.

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So I really want to work towards creating a diverse and comprehensive society and I want to do this starting with school and using English to do so.

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So I want to bring everybody together and try to bridge that gap.

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My vision therefore is to bridge the gap between vocational training and secondary school students within a bilingual school community.

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what are the actions the specific concrete actions that I've decided to

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take well let's have a look first of all we were taught to start small and get

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bigger so the first thing I'm going to do is conduct a survey to assess that

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student's situation within the bilingual school community I will also choose a

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a vet skill. I am going to choose that of early child care aid so these are the future

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assistants who will work with early childhood children in schools and I will teach them

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English. I'm going to create a solid teaching plan and going to use English for specific

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purposes and we're going to create an online working platform so we can keep track of all

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our work. In order to put my action plan into action, I will have to hold meetings with

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vets and English department members and of course a head team to ask for permission

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and I'll have to check that the resources are enough. How about the actual thing I'm going to

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do? I want to prepare an open day to share the vet skill in English, what we do with the school

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community and within that early childhood care we will carry out three workshops for everybody

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who wants to join in one will be about action songs for toddlers for little children another

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one will be on storytelling and another one will be on how to change a nappy now the big day the

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big moment will be to actually celebrate the open day and i have to remember to take pics of the

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moment to track success and as far as success is concerned and results that's a major part of the

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action plan so I'm going to check how many participants there were I'll carry out a survey

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after the action plan and also regard the possibility of extending the project to other

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skills. So we'll see what feedback we get from the education community. Now, there are always

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issues we can face, but as we were told at the course, the important thing is what we do about

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it. So let's see what some of these issues could be. There could be people not interested in the

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project, low participation, people thinking this is just silly, and also things like laziness,

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envy, low self-esteem etc. So how can we deal with this? Well luckily Rachel gave us some great

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ideas in the course. First of all it's paramount to have a strong vision and mission and to be

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motivating and to have intervention strategies with your team. Also to be smart, being specific,

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being able to measure your action plan and being realistic. You have to promote your project and

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also remember to keep smiling. Finally we have to have a look at the indicators of success. How do

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we know if the action plan was successful? Well I'm going to check out how many participants there

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were both on the open day and also on the online platform we created. I will conduct a survey

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before and after to see if there were any significant changes and also I'll check what

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feedback I got from students, colleagues, families and the school community in general.

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Another important thing is to celebrate success. So you can always have a little party with students,

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drinks and cake with colleagues. Remember to keep going and to congratulate oneself

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and being grateful. And we can also give prizes for the best nappy changer.

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Okay, well thanks very much for watching.

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This is my first digital project and I hope it gets me through to the next round.

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Have a great holiday. Bye!