{"id":8111,"date":"2020-10-22T05:52:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T05:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/?p=8111"},"modified":"2020-10-22T05:59:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T05:59:22","slug":"the-journey-to-school-international-school-basel-basel-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalschoolcommunity.com\/blog\/the-journey-to-school-international-school-basel-basel-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"The Journey to School: International School Basel (Basel, Switzerland)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The journey to work is indeed an important one.  The journey though is not so clear for international school teachers when they are looking for jobs at schools in cities\/countries at which they have never been.  So let’s share what we know!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of our members, who works at the International School Basel (Basel, Switzerland), described the way she gets to work as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The road to <\/strong>International School Basel in Switzerland…<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Getting out the door, I walk through a neighborhood in an industrial area, a low-rise concrete jungle. I walk past Decathlon, a fuel station, a building that doubles up as a mosque and a gym. They must have thought \u201cMensa sana in corpora sana”. This quirky place always brightens up my day when I walk past it. During summer, the hills in the distance are painted red by the rising sun. In autumn and winter, the mist is often too thick to even see the hills. Winter makes you wish you had a car; unless – like several of our teachers – you\u2019re from the North of Canada and enjoy the “rather mild Swiss climate”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The walk to the Dreispitz tram stop takes me 10 minutes at most, still I rush to tram 11 before realizing over and over again, that I shouldn\u2019t have bothered because there\u2019s a tram every 3-7 minutes. Very Swiss. As I get on the tram which takes me to ISB, I look for other teachers to talk to or chat with some students. When I\u2019m alone, I stare out the window and watch how the landscape gradually becomes more rural.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The tram first passes the Reinacherhof tramstop right in front of the ISB senior school campus \u2212 where most of the teachers get off \u2212 before taking me to the Reinach Sud tram stop where I get off after exactly 16 minutes. While the tram heads off to its next stop at the ISB Primary campus in Aesch, I walk past a local farm to the Fiechten Middle school campus, which takes me exactly 4 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Unlike the other two campuses which are purpose-built for ISB, Fiechten is owned by the Swiss \u201cGemeinde\u201d. The building looks very much like a Swiss protestant church and stands out because of its grey concrete walls and staircases. What is even more unusual is that the sound of the children\u2019s footsteps is muffled by the carpet in the hallways and in the classrooms. Most teachers have plants and colorful displays to brighten up the place a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The large windows and the view is what makes working on this campus worthwhile. Through my window, I can see the Goetheanum building in the distance. This is by far the most unique place in the area. It was founded in honour of Rudolf Steiner as a center for the Anthroposophical movement at the turn of the 19th century in a time when positivism dominated the natural sciences and humanities. People became aware of a growing interconnectedness between different parts of the world, cultures and religion. One of the main purposes of the movement was to create a new universal religion or philosophy which would incorporate wisdom of the major world religions. Rudolf Steiner conceptualized his teaching philosophy (used in Waldorf schools) based on the principles of Anthroposophy. The center has somewhat lost its function of ‘church’ but it is still a sanctuary for creative ideas. Today it offers theater and classical music performances, Steiner school training programs for teachers, art classes for kids, a bookshop (with books in a wide variety of languages) and a lovely tearoom which serves organic food. The entire hill is covered with buildings constructed in a similar architectural style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This Journey to School article was submitted to us by an ISC member.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What to know more what it is like to visit and live in Switzerland<\/strong>?  Out of a total of 33 international schools we have listed in Switzerland, 19 have had comments submitted on them. Here are just a few:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

College du Leman – International School<\/a> (85 comments)
Inter-community School Zurich<\/a><\/a> (69 Comments)
International School Basel<\/a> (131 Comments)
International School of Zug and Luzern<\/a><\/a> (32 Comments)
Leysin American School<\/a> (113 Comments)
Zurich International School<\/a> (59 Comments)
TASIS The American School in Switzerland<\/a> (32 Comments)
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So what is your journey to the international school you work at?  Earn one<\/strong> year free of premium membership<\/strong> to our website if you participate in this blog series – ‘The Journey to School’.  Email us here<\/a> if you are interested.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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