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Ausbau der methodisch-didaktischen und interkulturellen Kompetenzen im Fremdsprachenunterricht
Start date: Jun 26, 2014,
End date: Jun 25, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
Our school offers education from primary school to A-levels. English and Russian are taught from the first grade, French can be chosen in grade 12. To maintain the quality of our teaching we had the following objectives: Regarding the multitude of foreign language teachers our long term aim with this project was to support the exchange between the teachers in the primary and secondary sector to encourage interdisciplinary and across classes projects like drama groups, storytelling evenings, etc.. Another goal was to improve the linguistic competence of the participants. Furthermore, we wanted to extend our curriculum, which is based on the work of Rudolf Steiner, with new teaching approaches and methods. Finally the participating teachers should become more interculturally aware through meeting colleagues from other countries as well as being in England.
Originally, four teachers were intended for the project, because of uncontrollable circumstances only two were able to go.
One of the participants (61 years, female, German) has been working as a teacher in the secondary sector for 30 years. She has been a class teacher and English teacher in grades 1 to 8 at our school since 2005.
The other participant (41 years, female, German) is a fully qualified lawyer and an English teacher at Rudolf-Steiner schools. She has been teaching English to children aged six to fourteen at our school since 2009. She considers getting her qualification for teaching young adults in the next year.
Two of the activities took place in London at International House. The two-week course “Classroom Skills for Teaching Young Learners” focused on techniques and methodology related to teaching 5 to 11 year-olds. The content included CLIL, effective use of classroom language, effective classroom management techniques, exploiting materials and activities (storytelling, games, songs), ways of introducing and practising new language, encouraging learner independence, motivating primary school children, maintaining discipline, a introduction to a variety of practical teaching activities and materials, issues relating to discipline and motivation, a variety of media for teaching young learners
Another activity was in Canterbury at Pilgrims. This one-week course „Creative Methodology for the Classroom course“ was designed for teachers of young adults (aged 15 and above). Its contents were accuracy and fluency, promoting speaking through information gap activities, creative grammar practice, introduction to multiple intelligences, live listening activities, exploiting songs, introduction to the Lexical Approach, creative vocabulary practice, using Cuisenaire Rods, exploiting texts creatively, storytelling, dictation activities.
The fourth activity took place in Scarborough at Anglolang. This two-week course „Language and Methodology for Teachers of English“ was designed for English teachers who work in the primary or secondary sector. It focused on language development as well as on methodology to introduce fresh and communicative approaches to teaching English. It included language development, ice-breaking activities, vocabulary learning, recording and recycling, motivating learners to speak, using authentic materials, introduction to interactive whiteboards, using literature and music in the language classroom.
The participants improved their linguistic competence and enhanced their professional skills regarding new teaching approaches and methods. These brought new impulses and well-tried teaching approaches got modified and new methods were applied. This had an immediate impact on the learners, who benefited from these changes. The presentation of the activities by the participants prompted a lively exchange between the foreign language teachers during meetings and we hope to establish interdisciplinary and across classes projects in the near future. The school itself gained a more international perspective.