CoMenius CLIL Methodology

Course Summary

Entry Level: CEF B1+ to C1+

Morning: 4 x 45 minutes Methodology in Practice

Afternoon: 3 x 45 minutes Methodology and Teaching Strategies

Total Course Contact Hours: 1 week: 24 hours 2 weeks: 48 hours

Maximum Class Size: 12

This course was produced as a result of the Comenius Regio Project ELAC 2010-GB1-COM13-06201

C.L.I.L. course content is underpinned by ‘Basic Competences' (Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 – 2006/962/EC- on key competences for lifelong learning).

This course is aimed at teachers who are non-native speakers of English and need to teach their subjects through the medium of English. It is suitable for teachers of pupils aged ten upwards.

C.L.I.L.

This practical course is suitable for C.L.I.L. teachers. The course will improve confidence in lesson delivery and expand the participant’s range of methodological approaches to enhance classroom practice in addition to supplying the language and vocabulary needed in the classroom. The course is not subject specific.

Preparation

All applicants receive full course information together with an Application Form. Richard Language College then issues a Letter of Pre-Inscription for Comenius application purposes.

All successful applicants are invited to join a pre-course on-line forum. This enables them to prepare for their course with other European colleagues following Richard Language College courses on the same dates, sharing their professional experience and expectations of their training. Applicants will also be asked to do a short precourse task.

Methodology and Teaching Strategies

The course emphasis is practical, focusing on strategies, skills and activities to use in the classroom. The theoretical rationale supporting these techniques is introduced where appropriate, including the eight Basic Competences.

The Morning Sessions study in depth the role of language and language development in a CLIL context covering the four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking, learnerautonomy and lexis. This gives the participants the time and opportunity to absorb and work with the methodology and language of the CLIL classroom. Other sessions look at a wider range of CLIL areas of interest, for example: the role of language and trends in education today.

The Afternoon Sessions cover some of the essential classroom techniques in teaching C.L.I.L. and provide peer group opportunities for C.L.I.L. teachers to learn to manipulate these strategies and techniques themselves.

Outcomes

The course aims to provide the participants with the strategies, skills, activities and language necessary to deliver a range of subject based lessons in English.

Follow up

1. Advice on how to access, from the teacher’s own country, changes and developments in teaching in England. A list of useful websites will be provided.

2. A post-course feedback session to encourage continuing professional development and evaluation of the impact of the course on their own day-to-day teaching.

3. All leaving participants are invited to join a post-course on-line forum. This enables them to share their experience with other European colleagues and to assess the impact of their training on their own classroom practice once back in their own country.

Sample Programmes

Schedules can be adapted to suit the needs of the participants. Please contact us for further details.