Discovering Austrian schools and weather

Question and Answer blog entry 😄

1. How does such a school work?

The biggest school in Austria is divided in to these departments:

Departments of Automotive Engineering,

Industrial Engineering,

Facility Management Engineering,

Mechanical Engineering,

Mechatronics,

Electronics,

Electrical Engineering,

Wood Engineering,

Interior Design,

Environmental Engineering,

Construction Engineering and Civil Engineering.

2. What are the main activities performed in the Job Shadowing programme:

School activities performed so far:

Meeting with the head teacher and the Erasmus plus coordinator.

Guided tour through the school and the workshops

Meeting with colleagues from various subjects : English, Maths, History and Arts.

Presentation of our junior companies (businesses run by year 4 students)

Meeting with the head master of the gardening school in SchÖnbrunn

Learning through observation of English , architecture and engineering lessons.

Activities performed outside the schools of Mödling and Schönbrunn:

Visiting the Austrian parliament

Visiting the most important buildings and monuments in Vienna

Visiting the Scönbrunn gardens

Visiting the Belvedere gardens and the outside buildings

3. What about Schönbrunn school ?

There are no words to describe it, really I was speechless when I visited this school! The principle explained us the way they teach and organise this school and also we had the pleasure tu meet Maria Nieves Perez, the head of Institute in Innsbruck, a Spanish woman who moved to Austria because she fell in love with this amazing country. Here are some pictures.

4. How is the Austrian system of education in general ?

Education in Austriais divided as it follows:

Compared with the Spanish system of education I strongly recommend the Austrian one for secondary education as it helps students to find good jobs once they have finished school.

Fun fact 🫣

First thing students do once a teacher enters the class is they instantly get muted, they stand up and wait for the teacher's permission to sit!!! Obviously I will try this with my students but ...the results can be already forecast...they will probably stand up but unfortunately unmuted and laughing out loud about it.

The weather was just a proof of the climate change - cold -rain-sun-hot days

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