This CPD programme is an introduction to CLIL – a dual-focused educational approach for teaching academic subjects through an additional language, thus simultaneously teaching content and language. You will be shown why the employment of CLIL in education plays an integral role in the promotion of 21st-century skills, including interpersonal, communication and language skills as well as cultural sensitivity. You will also learn why its use is considered to be essential for both ‘the teacher and school of the future.

  • Duration: 4-5 hours
  • 40 ZQ points
  • Mode of Delivery: Online, Face-to-face or Blended
  • Level: Mapped to Level 1 of the Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF), England
  • Certification from QAI, UK
  • Knowledge and Principles of CLIL (60 mins)
  • Planning CLIL lessons (60 mins)
  • Delivering CLIL lessons (60 mins)
  • CLIL and Assessment (50 mins)
  • End-of-course quiz (10 mins)

This programme is externally validated and certified by Qualifications and Assessments International (QAI), UK, a private international awarding, accrediting, assessing and quality assurance body.

In order to achieve the Certificate of Participation, attendees are required to fully attend the programme.

Duration Session Details
60 minutes Knowledge and Principles of CLIL

  • What is CLIL ?
  • Aims and principles of CLIL
  • Language and communication across the curriculum
  • Cognitive and learning skills across the curriculum
60 minutes Planning CLIL lessons

  • Language demands of subject content
  • Resources and materials
  • Task types for CLIL
  • Sample CLIL lessons
60 minutes Delivering CLIL lessons

  • Providing scaffolding
  • Methods to develop learning strategies
  • Consolidating learning and differentiation
50 minutes CLIL and Assessment

  • Focus on assessment
  • Types of assessment
10 minutes End-of-course quiz

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Highlights

  • Learn about CLIL – a competence-based approach to teaching and learning, where subjects are taught through the medium of a non-native language and language learning is integrated into the broad curriculum
  • Consider the advantages of CLIL and review the four Cs that underlie and enable the dual
  • Function of this approach
  • Examine why the use of CLIL is deemed essential for ‘the teacher and school of the future
  • Develop a working understanding of successfully integrating CLIL into your own teaching
  • Evaluate and develop a range of interactive activities which will help you become more confident when teaching a subject in a second language
  • Learn about the right focus of assessment when employing the CLIL methodology