Grundtvig CLIL Methodology in Practice

Comenius CLIL Methodology in Practice

Course Summary

Entry Level: CEF B1+ to C1+

Daily Teaching Sessions Morning: 4 x 45 minutes (3 Hours) Methodology in Practice

Afternoon: 3 x 45 minutes (2 Hours 15 minutes) Methodology & 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 eighteen 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 pre-course task.

Methodology in Practice

Morning sessions will be devoted to refreshing the experience of being a student again. Teachers all too often become stale and lose sensitivity to the real situation of the student experience. These classes will facilitate the acquisition of general classroom language. The course tutors will place each teacher in a live English as a Foreign Language class in which the participant may observe in practice many of the skills taught in the methodology classes. In addition to the consequent increase in personal fluency to give more confidence in lesson delivery, the teacher becomes more acutely aware of learning difficulties from a student’s point of view. The methodology tutor will receive and discuss feedback in an afternoon session.

Methodology and Teaching Strategies

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

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 Programme

Schedules can be adapted to suit the needs of the participants.

Two week Course Total number of course contact hours: Two weeks 48 hours

Week 1 Day One 8.50 Welcome 09.15­ - 12.35 Testing & Orientation Tour 9.15 - 12.35

Days 2 - 5 Active participation in a live class. Lunch Break 12.35 - 14.00 14.00­- 16.15 CLIL techniques, Critical analysis of a real CLIL lesson, Classroom language, Vocabulary acquisition,simplifying language and how to avoid problem areas, Constructing a model CLIL lesson with reference to the 8 basic competences, Reviewing the model lesson and trialling, Micro-teaching and feedback on individual CLIL lessons, Feedback on the morning lesson, Course evaluation

Week 2 09.15­ - 12.35 Active Particiaption in a live class Lunch Break 14.00 - 16.15­ Learning styles for CLIL, Pronunciation, phonology and vocabulary acquisition in a CLIL context, Micro-teaching and feedback on individual CLIL lessons, Comparing theoretical and practical lessons, Aided research in sources for your specialist subject area.

One week Course Total number of course contact hours: One week 24 hours

Day One 8.50 Welcome 09.15­ - 12.35 Testing & Orientation town tour.

09.15 -12.35 participation in a live class. (Days 2 - 5) Lunch Break 12.35 - 14.00 14.00­ - 16.15 CLIL techniques, Critical analysis of a real CLIL lesson, Classroom language, Vocabulary acquisition, simplifying materials and how to avoid problem areas, Constructing a model CLIL lesson with reference to the 8 basic competences, Reviewing the model lesson and trialling, Micro-teaching and feedback on individual CLIL lessons, Feedback on the morning lesson, Course evaluation

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