1. Australia-Indonesia BRIDGE School Partnerships Project Aaron O’Shannessy Manager, International Programmes Asia Education Foundation @a_oshannessy www.asiaeducation.edu.au

2. Asia Education Foundation (AEF)

3. 200 Australia-Asia school partnerships 624 teachers 100,000+ students Expanding in 2015

5. Intercultural understanding on a grand scale Supports language learning – Chinese, Indonesian and Korean; soon to include Japanese Supports students in the region to build digital citizenship Responds to schools’ appetite to make global connections

6. Establishment of school partnerships Teacher capacity building Ongoing partnership support

8. Australia-Indonesia BRIDGE School Partnerships PARTNERSHIPS: 14 provinces out of 33 IMPACTED: 6,200+ students BUILT CAPACITY: 484 teachers COLLABORATION: thousands of students

9. Australia-Indonesia BRIDGE School Partnerships Provincial involvement

10. Australian teacher outcomes 97% strengthened intercultural understanding 95% expanded their knowledge and awareness of the histories, geographies, literatures, arts and cultures of their partner country 83% improved their second language proficiency 81% strengthened their ICT skills 71% reported increased student engagement in language classes Source: BRIDGE annual survey 2013

11. Australian student outcomes 90% strengthened intercultural understanding 92% expanded their knowledge and awareness of the histories, geographies, literatures, arts and cultures of their partner country 68% strengthened their language skills and had real life applications for use and practice 67% strengthened their ICT skills Source: BRIDGE annual survey 2013

13. Student Online Collaboration

14. Environmental Walk - QR Codes & Bilingual

15. Flat Travellers

16. Edmodo

17. Digital Storytelling using Apps

18. Keypals / Penpals

19. Student Videoconferencing

21. Student Exchanges

22. BRIDGE, is fostering understanding and friendship between the leaders of the future...Personal relationships transcend all others. Nowhere is that more evident than in our young people. The Hon Julie Bishop MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs

23. o Systematic support and involvement by whole school community (leadership, teachers, students, and parents) o Balanced and committed collaboration and communication between partner schools o Persistence in overcoming challenges to achieve sustainability o Curricular, co-curricular and pedagogical embedding o Purposeful professional learning

25. Use the #bridgeproject hashtags and complete your sentence in a total of 140 characters or less. What have you learnt? What has surprised you? What have you planned? Share your experiences! Task: Tweet over the course of the program