A normal day of an assistant...

The main task of a Comenius-assistant is to assist a teacher during a practical activity, such as individual exercises, group works or projects.

In general I assist my mentor during the lessons of economy and business education.

Business education (Xth and XIIth grade)

During the whole year, the pupils are making a portfolio. In that portfolio they include information about a fictive company they would like to build. Every week they have to make one file about an economic subject of their company.

There are many different kind of companies: a bakery, a music store, a dance club, even a company that produces and distributes parts for military aircrafts.

Due to the fact that building a company requires a lot of money, they might need an investor.

And it can be that the investor doesn't speak Romanian, for example when he comes from Belgium.

So we've decided to perform a role-play in English or French (the pupil can chose) in which they try to convience me to invest in their company, one by one.

I asked them questions about the marketing-mix (5P's: Price, Product, Promotion, Place and Personnel) and what my part would be in the company.

At the end of the role-play I decided if I invest in their company or not.

Economy (XIth grade)

In the lessons of economy, the pupils had to make a project about the concurrence between two companies from an oligopoly.

After they had presented their project, I gave them some feedback in English about the structure and the creativity of their project.

I also challenged them to think about the data they had written on their project: "Is it realistic? What is the currency of your values? Have you checked your resources? ..."