- Workshop on CLIL Methodology with Dr Diana Hicks

Monday, 27^th February

The second week was really intense. Classes began at 09:00 am, at the Isbourne Centre. In this building we could take some coffee or tea and have the packed lunch that our host family prepared for us:  sandwiches, fruit, yogurt, cakes, etc. We didn´t have much time to rest but enough to exchange some words with other European teachers. We finished our lessons about five pm.

We met Diana Hicks,

She is an expert teacher in CLIL methodology and she was explaining  the meaning, the aims, the characteristics and the steps of Learning Integrated Language Content in detail.

Some of my notes during the day are summarized. I recommend you have a look at the links of bibliography and webgraphy

(Links of book)

To start, a brainstorming, the question is:  what would you like to know about CLIL?

1)       How can CLIL help me teach Maths?

2)      One classroom only? Flexible?

3)      How is CLIL transforming learning across EU?

4)      CLIL pedagogy

5)      Mixed: proficiency/ability

6)      “Block teachings”: integrate writing and learning

7)      Students speaking English

During the day she was talking about the answers and others, we told her our experiences in CLIL and we did some activities to understand the process and to see how CLIL can be used in all subjects.

The first activity was a surprise for me, I mean for its results. It was a debate about the questionnaire we had filled about the Rules of L1 (mother tongue) and L2 (second language, English in our case). Surprisingly, we did not have the same idea regarding CLIL.  We were teachers from: Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Norway and Bulgaria.