Development of the CLIL programme in Seinajoki
Start date: Dec 31, 2014,
End date: Dec 30, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
The town of Seinäjoki provides clil-education all the way from kindergaten to graduating from upper secondary school. It has been supporting the schools that are part of the clil-education path. Clil-education has its own steering committee which comprises of representatives from each participating school and kindergarten as well as a representative from the municipal administration.
The steering committee has been discussing an in-service training programme based on developing and improving teachers' oral skills in English and providing them with new pedagogical solutions-what we call a 'double primary objective'. Currently, here in Seinajoki the two major challenges we encounter in CLIL-education are the teachers' insecurity about their own oral skills and the methods they are using in their classrooms.
We wish to drive CLIL education forward in Seinajoki, creating a confident and secure CLIL workforce who can exhibit their passion for their subject as comfortably in a CLIL lesson, as they would be in their own native language lessons. This is to be aligned with our second primary objective, to develop a progressive atmosphere of CLIL innovation, where new methods of teaching CLIL can be observed and integrated into our own CLIL development plans where suitable and appropriate.
During the programme the school would annually send four teachers on a in-service training course to the UK where they would gain more confidence about their oral skills and find new teaching methods. We aim at finding courses that focus on CLIL-methodology and improving oral skills in English. Another annual mobility would involve sending one teacher or a representative of the administration to a job shadowing period to a school where they have long-standing experience of CLIL-education. This mobility aims at giving new pedagogical and administrative solutions to our CLIL-education and thus improve the overall quality of CLIL-education within the municipality.
The teachers who have taken part in the training will gain self-confidence about their professional abilities as their oral skills improve. It is expected that their teaching methods will become more versatile as they are given more tools to cope with their professional challenges. In addition new methods and best practices resulting from job shadowing will serve to strengthen the reputation and position of CLIL-education both within our own municipality and nationally as we engage in national professional CLIL conferences (such as STEPS). Evaluation practices will also provide the steering committee with new ideas how to develop CLIL-education further, which will have an impact on the quality of CLIL-education as a whole here in Seinäjoki.
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