Title of the project: Teachers who get immersed in new learning contexts will enrichen their students. Context: The mission of The Wartburg College: 'We want our pupils to be valuable citizens of our society.' Where possible, we apply the standards and values which we derive from the Bible to the lives of the youngsters. Our pedagogical climate is featured by notions as: authority, love, responsibility and personality. We aim at a tailor-made approach for all types of pupils, quality of our education and the own responsibility of teachers. Location Guido de Bres expresses this as follows: - Room for education that takes place beyond the physical building. - Room for deepening the Christian identity. - Attention for the development of talents (during lessons, debating and extra subjects). - Room for a wide range of educational activities and approach within the classroom: tto (bilingual education), veto (strengthened language education), and also a variety of didactics. This has been worked out by the tto-team as follows: The school wants to educate the tto-pupils who are capable to serve in the Dutch or international society. Being valuable as christian citizens implies: 1. After three years the pupils have acquired a B2-level of English according to the ERK-model. 2. The pupils are able to write and speak with insight on a diversity of European and International aspects. In this way they learn how to adjust to different cultures and make themselves subservient to their international environment. 3. The pupils are educated in a challenging learning environment. 4. Teachers point at the relevance of the English language in the national and international society. Aims: The tto-teachers will develop their English language skills and CLIL-didactics (Content and Language Integrated Learning) in order to raise the level of English of the pupils. Also the teachers will be able to dig deeper in the subject content. The French teacher will develop the principle 'doeltaal=voertaal', i.e. that he will speak the language during his lessons that he is also teaching. This will be made possible by a complete immersion in the French language and culture. Another aim is that pupils will grow in the way they give English output which will make it possible to participate in the society as European citizen. Number of participants: Eleven teachers. Activities: - CLIL-course at the Hilderstone Institute. - Job shadowing at several English schools. - Course French language and speaking skills. Methods: - De CLIL-course exists of a 'Language' as well as a 'Methodology' part. It focuses on classroom English and also on how to give the right instructions when it comes to effective learning. On top of that the course offers a wide range of CLIL-didactics that will provides the teachers more tools to manage the educational process. - The job shadowing exists of: the attending and observing of classes, the collecting of new classroom English and didactics and the collaboration with English teachers (discussing each others' lesson materials and lessons observed as well as the participation on moments of spiritual formation). - Course French language and speaking skills. The course (FGUEE) exists of 28 lessons per week. Twenty lessons are related to the Français Général with pedagogical workshops of the Université d’Eté pour Enseignants Etrangers. On top of that workshops will be given on the area of culture, politics, guided tours in the region of Aix are organised and teachers get acquainted with the local culture. All lessons are given according to the ERK-model. After the course the teacher receives a certificate indicating the ERK-level of the teacher as wel as the number of lessons followed. Expected impact: After the courses teachers will have made huge progress on the area of language skills, CLIL-didactics as well as international orientation. They will experience a personal, professional growth and this will enrichen the tto-education. In March 2016 we hope we will pass the inspection visit of the Ep-Nuffic team and therefore keep the label of tto-junior school. The impact will influence the veto-tam as well as the subject departments. On all these areas the new didactics will be shared, new authentic material will be handed out and a new impulses will be given to set up international projects.