Patrick Arendt
born 22.8.1964
teacher since 1986

teaching 6th grade in Schouweiler Luxemburg (children 11/12 years old)
20 children are in my class (13 girls and 7 boys) coming from 6 different countries

in charge of all lessons (26/week).

teaching experiences:

• working since 1986 in this same school (where I startd my teaching career)
• teaching 5th and 6th grade for 8 years now
• before physical education teacher for all grades (12 lessons a week + together with R. Kass teaching a 5th/6th grade)
• charged for NTIC in our school for one year (in the early nineties) (12 lessons)
  introducing all pupils to computers (this experience (for one year) failed, but was at hose early days a possible opportunity to bring computers to our school. Since computers are in classrooms
• member of the MIRA project:

In real life I am married (2 children)

I'm a basketballcoach:
visit the webpage of my team
(check back often for updates - coaches often change)

I like reading (yes I am a little old fashioned)
prefered authors: Frisch and Zola

and a fan of Rockmusic (back in the seventies)

I'm participating in these kind of project, because I want the children to know more about other children in other countries all over Europe and the world.

They should have the responsability to organize and lead there process of learning. This way of learning fits, in my opinion, best the curiosity of children.

I like very much, when they go home, after a morning of very intense work on a project, to be published in the net, destinated to other children in a far away region, and tell there parents:
"Great, today we didn't work at schoool."