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Improving Education
Start date: Jul 5, 2016,
End date: Jul 4, 2017
PROJECT
FINISHED
10 CLIL teachers, eight of them who were involved in bilingual education from the start, showed a common interest in improving their skills as well as in the field of language as in teaching.The required competencies are in the fields of language and teaching methodology. Another skill is of dealing with colleagues and dealing with the outside world in which teachers feel that they need to be sensitive in a changing internationalized environment. Management and coordinator TTO have spoken to all the teachers individually and we have made a list of all the wishes and needs. The result was that all the teachers wanted to work on the following aspects:Adapting new ways and adapting ideas , explore current approaches and methodologies in content and language integrated learning and teaching and consider their relevance and application to their own teaching, develop their confidence and ability to use English for professional purposes, insight into British culture. All the CLIL teachers are highly motivated and committed and therefor we have chosen for the following group:All the departments are present, some teachers are new to the programme, some have been CLIL teachers from the start but all have many years of teaching experience. 10 teachers will go this year,other CLILdocenten appear in a follow-up process, which will ultimately result in the fact that all CLIL teachers will have followed a professionalisation course.Course is designed to explore current approaches and methodoglogies, share experiences, improve fluency and command of English, immersion into British life.Participants will be working with a range of resources and materials, and areas that will be worked on are : developing materials expansion idiom, active method and improvement of oral and written language skills.Emphasis will be on it: language classroom, strategies for integrating content and language and developing communication skills, working with written, audio and visual text, developing subject-specific language and guidance of the students in the learning process.By staying with host families participants are immersed into the English culture and language acquisation will increase. During the weekend several excursions are planned to also enhance the immersion into the culture.Teachers went abraod twice before, many years ago they went on a course in Hilderstone, three years ago they went to a CLIL course given by Janet Streeter who regularly visits our school. She gives courses and she provides feedback after having visited the lessons from the CLIL teachers. After having completed the course the following objectives are achieved:Language:- An increase in language skills- Increase fin luency- Expansion vocabulary, including collocation and appropriacy, linked to cultural and educational topics and current affairs- grammar review and development as appropriate- Material taken will be shared with other teachers- Understanding of other cultures- Increase cultural knowledge- awareness of style and registerMethodology / Classroom practice CLIL:- approaches to integrated content and language in the CLIL classroom have reached- textbook and course material will be shared- a task will be designed for CLIL context- support materials have been developed and reviewed- Strategies and activities have been developed for working with reading texts, visual materials and listening/video materials to support students' learning-review materials will have been developed- a short lessons has been given to the other teachers: micro teaching- Motivated teachers who come back after the course, the students will benefit immediately. After all, a motivated and enthusiastic teacher can stimulate and motivate students better. - Teachers will visit a local school to find out more about schools and education in England and to observe lessons. We hope that teachers build their network during their stay in England by interaction with other foreign colleagues and we hope to find a school in the vicinity of the language institute in order to start an exchange programme with this school. We will currently have to develop activities.Spread within the long-term school:The teachers will write a report at the end of each course day. This report is sent to the coordinator which will bundle the reports and after return of the teachers these reports will be discussed . Then the reports are shared with the other teachers, first individually (one teacher each), then through team meetings. Teachers who have not attended the course will start visiting the teachers who have been on the course and thus benefit from the knowledge gained. During the team meetings the teachers who participated, organizes workshops and shares his knowledge. Knowledge can also be shared on a regional basis as our school is part of a regional network.