CLIL Team training - CLIL Media

Practical workshops for CLIL teachers in The Netherlands

Are you a CLIL teacher and do you want to learn more about a specific topic of CLIL?

Below you can find the different workshops I offer available, following the structure of the CLIL Roadmap.

You can join any of these individually, based on availability.

Basics of CLIL

Language skills

Scaffolding & Thinking skills

Activity Design

Lesson Planning

Feedback & Assessment

Practical activities

Not (just) theory, but practical lesson ideas that can be implemented the day after the workshop. After all, it is not like teachers have hours of time to prepare all of their lessons.

Step-by-step

As the workshops are organized around the CLIL Quality Roadmap, teachers have a clear path to follow and know exactly when they are going to learn what.

Learn by doing

During the workshops, teachers experience the activities themselves. That way they not only notice what the activity is like from a student perspective, but it also more fun!

1| Basics of CLIL

Laying the foundation

Learning something new always starts with the first step, and that is exactly what this module is all about.

Together we will explore CLIL. We will figure out what it is (and also what it is not!), how it can be applied to your lesson and how it relates to other types of language learning.

Topics in this module

The definition of CLIL
Soft CLIL vs. Hard CLIL
Common misconceptions

At the end of this module you have a clear understanding of what CLIL is and how it can be applied to your lesson.

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2| Language skills

Getting students to engage with language

CLIL is all about implementing language in the lessons.

After all, it is not called content and Language integrated learning for no reason, is it?

Implementing language in the lesson, knowing students have trouble with the content already, can be quite a challenge.

In this module we will discuss just that!

Some of the topics in this module

Language as a tool
Applying the four language skills
BICS & CALP

At the end of this module you know a variety of ways to implement language in your lesson, like motivating student output.

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3| Scaffolding and Thinking skills

Implementing essential teaching techniques

Scaffolding is crucial to CLIL teaching as you are not only a subject teacher, but also a language teacher. This means you need some way of structuring this learning for students.

With the 6 thinking skills of Bloom, you can help students to learn more effectively and provide a wider variety of activities to ensure more engagement in your lessons.

Some of the topics in this module

What is scaffolding (and what is not scaffolding..)
Three types of scaffolding you can apply
Why scaffolding learning and scaffolding language is different
The difference between LOTS and HOTS
How to implement LOTS and HOTS to your lesson

At the end of this module you can integrate scaffolding in your lesson without having to think of additional activities. You will also be able to apply the thinking skills to the activities you do to increase motivation and possible differentiation.

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"The workshop leader was enthusiastic and informative. The benefit to new CLIL teachers was evident in their feedback and questions during and after the event."

Kevin schuck

PENTA College CSG Jacob van Liesveldt

4| Activity Design

Creating engaging CLIL activities

Before you can design a CLIL lesson, you have to be able to design a CLIL activity.

Creating effective tasks and activities that allow for differentiation can be quite a challenge.

In this module these challenges will be discussed.

Some of the topics in this module

Applying differentiation effectively
Setting up effective tasks
Elements of a good CLIL activity

At the end of this module you can develop a CLIL activity for your lesson in a short amount of time.

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5| Lesson stages

Preparing effective CLIL lessons

Preparing CLIL lessons does not need to take a lot of time. With the step-by-step procedure discussed in this module, every CLIL teacher can prepare a CLIL lesson while keeping an eye on all of the topics discussed before like scaffolding, language skills and thinking skills.

Some of the topics in this module

The four lesson stages
Over 15 CLIL activities to be implemented in these stages
Infrequent lesson stages (and activities for those)

At the end of this module you can prepare a CLIL lesson in 15 minutes or less.

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6| Feedback & Assessment

Effective feedback on language

One of the key elements of CLIL is motivating student output. But if a teacher does not provide feedback on this, the student will still not learn anything.

This module also discussed the interesting topic on integrating CLIL in assessments, for example: what role does language play in subject assessments?

Some of the topics in this module