CLIL – Content Language and Integrated Learning

By attending this CLIL course you will:

• Explore techniques for scaffolding language and content.
• Gain a better understanding of how to plan lessons with both content and language in mind.
• Become more efficient and more competent in designing CLIL teaching materials and be more confident in delivering CLIL lessons.
• Develop your own English language skills.
• Gain awareness of Irish culture and society through topical, interactive lessons.
• Establish contact with teachers from a variety of education systems to facilitate future networking.

This is a practical course which uses real teaching and learning examples. Teachers completing the course will return home with immediate, practical ideas to implement in their own teaching practice.

• Participants are expected to actively participate in the workshops, reflecting on their own beliefs and practice, and sharing thoughts, ideas and expertise in pair work, small groups and with the class as a whole.
• During the course participants will also take part in a range of afternoon activities where they will be encouraged to develop their language skills in a more informal environment outside the classroom and further enhance their knowledge of contemporary Ireland.

Participants on the course are encouraged to keep in contact, sharing materials and experiences when back in their own classrooms. Follow-up contact is made with the participants after completion of the course to gather feedback on the effectiveness of the classroom activities presented and on how their teaching practice has been developed.