In an online meeting on February 1st I explained to five representatives of five different teams how we are building the training From a Rookie to an Expert for VET staff, a training to improve international skills. These five colleagues are already enthusiastic about internationalisation. They e.g. help me recruiting students of their educations to go abroad or organize international study-trips with their team.
I told about this Erasmus funded project and explained how we first started to research whether staff members of the schools participating in the project would be interested to learn more about internationalisation.
I showed them the outcomes in the infographic below. These outcomes have confirmed the possible interest in a training module.

Then I explained how we constructed the different parts in the training using the picture of the career model.

Subsequently the colleagues could browse through the training on the website. Although this website is still under construction, it gave a good impression of the content of the training. Comments were made as that it was interesting and informative, nice to go snooping around but also that it was a lot of text, not direct clear where to find which knowledge you were missing and could develop. Some kind of direction indication was missing.
Afterwards we had a discussion about which personal preferences we had in developing skills in internationalisation. It was nice to talk about that although most of my colleagues were not keen on knowing all the documentation that is coming along with Erasmus funded projects. Maybe I ever can tempt them to join in and they can experience how inspiring it can be despite the administration.
I expect the training From a Rookie to an Expert can be a helpful instrument in this.
Participants in this meeting:
Tim de Haan, teacher
Maria Kiekebos-Wiekamp, teacher and team leader
Jozé Kienstra, manager
Hennie Duijndam, teacher
Kate Wintle, teacher
– Mieke Muilwijk, teacher and coordinator internationalisation, Alfa-College – The Netherlands