spiel mit CLIL
Start date: Jul 1, 2014,
End date: Jun 30, 2015
PROJECT
FINISHED
The primary school at Teutoburger Platz is an elementary school situated in the Berlin district of Pankow. In total, the number of pupils currently attending our school between 1st to 6th grade, is 370. Our school is eager to extend its area of cooperation to the European level, in order to give Language learning-and teaching a new priority. In the past years we have therefore begun to offer bilingual teaching (German-English), especially in the field of sciences/ personal and social education (P.S.E.). Additionally, since 2010, we are engaged in the CLIL network of the Humboldt University of Berlin.
The number of pupils with foreign background has seen, in the past years, a continuous rise. One the one hand, are children from Turkish and Vietnamese backgrounds now studying with pupils from Syria, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. On the other hand, there are children who already have some knowledge in English. This is either because their parents come from an English speaking background, or because they see the education of their child as so important that they supported the language learning at an earlier stage than regular from 3rd grade. Bilingual teaching would be a great opportunity to support and develop shared language experiences, regardless of the children´s mother tongue.
Our project should enable two teachers (one foreign language teacher and one subject teacher) to take part in a European training course. The two teachers will be working as a team. The course should give the teaching staff a deeper insight into the practical implementation of the CLIL-Method in bilingual teaching. The teachers should bring along knowledge in the English language, motivation and willingness to cooperate. Existing proficiency in the CLIL-Method is of advantage.
The course will give the teachers the possibility to improve their competences in the CLIL-Method and to anticipate further methodological and didactic developments. They will enhance their know-how regarding the implementation of the CLIL-Method, will learn how to optimize the leaning process with the use of game elements, and also how to make the teaching more innovative and creative. The course will connect classroom practice with real life needs. In addition, they will receive a training on didactical games, in theory, as well as in practice. The European background of the participants and their teaching experience with the CLIL-Method also offers the possibility to build up a network for fruitful future cooperation.
A member of the extended executive school board is in charge of the project management. He/she will select the participants through a transparent procedure and will give support during the implementation of the project. At the end of the project, we will supervise and control the outcomes, their integration into teaching procedure and their dissemination.
In order to guarantee an effective promulgation of the outcomes the participants will act as disseminators. They will present their learning outcomes (competences) to the entire teaching staff, to whom they will also offer training courses. The school committees will discuss and assess the outcomes of the project and examine how they can enrich the bilingual teaching at our school. The learning outcomes of the participants will also be shared on the CLIL network of the Humboldt University and initiate a professional/didactic exchange of experience. In a parallel process, we will plan a European school partnership for the following year, if possible and suitable with the involvement of the new established contacts.
Altogether, we hope for significant and pervasive didactic and methodic stimuli for the bilingual teaching at our school. From this development will benefit primarily our pupils, since with more motivation, they will be able to reach higher learning success.