Program Overview

CLIL Interdisciplinary

Overview

This interactive, informative, and practical course is suitable for both English language teachers and those who use English as the language of delivery in other subjects.

Outcomes

• Critically reflect on your own teaching style and understand alternative teaching styles
• Analyse how students learn and how to motivate and maintain interest during lessons
• Develop teaching strategies for the application of core CLIL methodology
• Understand the challenges around interdisciplinary teaching and scaffolding learning in non-native speaking environments

Content

• CLIL teaching methodology, for example, the 4Cs and integrated skills work
• Classroom management strategies, for example, for emergent language, mistakes, and feedback
• Teaching techniques to effectively balance the development of students' language skills and subject knowledge
• Materials development – how to best take advantage of textbooks and other sources to create CLIL materials

Sample Schedule

Tuesday

• 9:00 - 12:10: Errors
  • Styles of classroom error correction such as delayed correction, on-the-spot correction, and whole-class correction
  • A look at how to correct writing, and the use of a 'correction code' to encourage self-correction
• 12:50 - 15:00: Writing Tasks
  • Designing more meaningful writing tasks that encourage more than students simply "regurgitating" language onto a page
  • Course participants create a loose lesson plan for a 45-minute writing lesson and present their ideas

Wednesday

• 9:00 - 12:10: CLIL – Content & Language Integrated Learning
  • What does it mean? Why do we do it? What does a CLIL lesson look like?
  • What are the challenges of CLIL and how can we manage them?
• 12:50 - 15:00: Integrating typical EFL methodologies with CLIL
  • Ensure students are confident with accessing lesson content and getting the most out of lesson materials

Thursday

• 9:00 - 12:10: Lesson planning
  • Setting the aims and goals of each class, ensuring each activity has a meaningful purpose and communicating this to the students
  • Vocabulary
    • The language used to describe lesson planning and class content in the context of being a teacher
• 12:50 - 15:00: Syllabus design
  • How to create and compile a course, write course aims, and ensure the course meets the students' aims
  • Analysis of various syllabi, commenting and critiquing them

Friday

• 9:00 - 12:10: Working with teaching materials and resources
  • Exploiting materials to their full potential and unlocking language and learning opportunities from authentic texts
  • Using exterior resources such as Ted Talks and YouTube in the classroom
• 12:50 - 15:00: Culture lesson
  • The politics of Britain and the Royal Family
  • A review of this week's content, discussion, and round-up. Questions & Answers

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