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October 4th - October 8th
Why you should join the Online CLIL Summit 2021
The online CLIL summit is organised with the aim of helping CLIL teachers worldwide get in touch with each other, learn from each other and find inspiration.
But more importantly: stop reinventing the wheel for every CLIL activity or lesson idea that needs to be developed and find both practical and easy to implement lesson ideas.
The online CLIL summit 2020 was a huge success with over 2500 teachers worldwide joining.
This summit aims to be even more successful & even more useful to teachers!
So what are you waiting for? Sign up for free and let's help each other improve our CLIL lessons!
For whom the Online CLIL Summit is organised
Anyone teaching within a CLIL context!
The summit is particularly useful for:
If you are a researcher or teach in any other type of education you are more than welcome to join as well of course, you are sure to find inspiration!
The event is completely online so you can participate in the summit anywhere you want.
At the end of the summit, you will be able to:
And more!
Meet the experts
The Online CLIL Summit features presentations, interviews and even two live panels on all kinds of topics related to CLIL from experts all over the world!
Who do you want to learn from next?
David Marsh
PhD
The CLIL Slipstream: Impact on Mind and Brain
Phil Ball
Teacher trainer, materials and curriculum development
The shape of a CLIL didactic sequence
Oliver Meyer
Expert
Beyond CLIL: Why moving into pluriliteracies and deeper learning is how to take CLIL to the next level
Linton Roe
Teacher and Consultant
Australia and Europe - Implementation of the 4C's
Rosie Tanner
CLIL trainer, coach and consultant
Encourage writing in CLIL
Chantal Hemmi
Teacher trainer
Students' knowledge of Critical Thinking for pre-CLIL and pre-EMI Academic English Courses
Amanda van Dijk - 't Noordende
CLIL Coach and researcher
CLIL and inclusive education
Aleksandra Zaparucha
CLIL teacher trainer and author
C for Culture - an obsolute element of CLIL?
Kevin Schuck
Education Consultant
Practical Pluriliteracies (CLIL and beyond)
Michelle C. Guerrini
Teacher and teacher trainer
Science experiments: scaffolding to integrate content with language and thinking
Letizia Cinganotto & Daniela Cuccurullo
Researcher and English language teacher
Techno-CLIL in hybrid and flexible learning scenarios
Janet Streeter, Sietske Dijkma & Petra Hatley-Richardson
Teachers and teachers trainers
Visual Language Support for CLIL The Drawing Effect:
How to support students’ understanding and boost long-term memory though visual aids.
Want to learn from the best? Sign up for free and meet all of these experts during this live online event!
What did people think of the previous online CLIL summit?
Results from the post-summit survey from the online CLIL summit 2020
Did the online CLIL summit 2020 live up to your expectations?
96%
Yes
Would you join the online CLIL summit if it was organised in 2021?
98%
Yes
How would you rate the online CLIL summit 2020?
96%
7 or higher
Monday October 4th
What is CLIL?
10:00 AM
The CLIL Slipstream: Impact on Mind & Brain
David Marsh
What recent meta-research on languages, mind and brain reveals about the value of CLIL methods
At the end of this session you have understanding of research findings that further validates the application of CLIL in education.
15:00
3:00 PM
Beyond CLIL: why moving into pluriliteracies and deeper learning is how to take CLIL to the next level
Oliver Meyer
If education is to prepare learners for lifelong learning, there needs to be a shift towards deeper learning: a focus on transferable knowledge and problem-solving skills alongside the development of a positive or growth mindset.
In this presentation I will present new developments in the understanding of the interface between language and learning, and propose an original new 'pluriliteracies' approach which refines and develops current thinking in CLIL.
At the end of this session you know the importance of aligning the mechanics and drivers of deeper learning with the interests, strengths and weaknesses of their students is key to designing deeper learning episodes for transferable knowledge
20:00
8:00 PM
C for Culture - an obsolete element of CLIL?
Aleksandra Zaparucha
CLIL teacher training for subject teachers is generally conducted by language specialists. They suggest subject teachers base their CLIL lessons on 4Cs: content, communication, cognition and… What? Culture? What for?
In this talk, I want to convince CLIL teacher trainers 3Cs are enough and ask them to stop inappropriately shoehorning culture into the curriculum. One way to do so is to use the CLIL Wheel, which combines the 3Cs (not four!) with the 10 CLIL parameters
At the end of this session you can be more reflective regarding the requirements of a good CLIL lesson.
Tuesday October 5th
Guiding input
15:00
3:00 PM
Panel Discussion
During this panel discussion you can ask questions to the experts present.
Experts present in this panel discussion:
David Marsh
Rosie Tanner
Aleksandra Zaparucha
Michele C. Guerrini
20:00
8:00 PM
Techno-CLIL in hybrid and flexible learning scenarios
Letizia Cinganotto
Daniela Cuccurullo
The presentation will describe examples of webtools and repositories for CLIL which could be useful to plan and implement collaborative and interactive CLIL tasks in hybrid and flexible learning scenarios.
At the end of this session you understand the importance of webtools and repositories for CLIL tasks.
Wednesday October 6th
Motivating Output
10:00 AM
Students' Knowledge of Critical Thinking for Pre-CLIL and Pre-EMI Academic English Courses
Chantal Hemmi
Critical thinking is regarded as one of the essentials of the 21st century skills and is central to CLIL and EMI courses. However, it is not clear how students understand CT.
In this session I refer to my own teaching context at two university courses at undergraduate level and show how students develop their discussions employing elements of critical thinking.
At the end of this session you can make use of the scaffolds presented in this session to create your own activities for encouraging critical thinking in students' discussions.
15:00
3:00 PM
Encourage writing in CLIL
Rosie Tanner
This interactive webinar will introduce you to a model to help you to design assignments that motivate and encourage your students to produce written (and spoken) output. You will evaluate and adjust some assignments using the model.
At the end of this session you can adapt CLIL tasks for your students; understand a model for creating authentic materials.
20:00
8:00 PM
Visual Language Support for CLIL The Drawing Effect: How to support students’ understanding and boost long-term memory though visual aids.
Janet Streeter
Petra Hatley-Richardson
Sietske Dijkma
And now for something completely different: In this practical and interactive workshop you will experience the benefit of drawing for any subject, any topic and any age group. We will demonstrate how ‘drawing as a tool’ can support understanding, output and long term memory. And a lovely bonus: it’s fun!
At the end of this session you will be able to apply these useful and fun strategies and techniques to their classes in order to help students retain information and language
Thursday October 7th
Designing tasks & activities
10:00 AM
CLIL and inclusive education
Amanda Van Dijk - van't Noordende
It is important to include students with different learning needs, backgrounds and requests in the education of the future. This session will zoom in on a wide range of inclusivity. For example how to adress dyslexic students, how to adress multilingual students next to monolingual students and how teacher training should adress this topic.
Furthermore, there will be practical tips and methods you as a teacher can incorporate in your classroom to make it more inclusive with CLIL.
At the end of this session you can apply tips to make your CLIL classrooms more inclusive
15:00
3:00 PM
Science experiments: scaffolding to integrate content with language and thinking
Michele C. Guerrini
Carrying out experiments can enable learners to discover science content, not just read about it. Experiments on many topics are available online, providing valuable input for CLIL lessons. However, the CLIL approach prioritises active participation, so learners should take an active role in the experiment. Three types of scaffolding can support them in this role, as well as integrate content with language and thinking.
Participants in this session examine one experiment using the scientific method and explore basic scaffolding techniques and tools conducive to achieving CLIL goals.
At the end of this session you can identify the main steps of the scientific method, support learners so that they develop language and thinking skills as they discover science content and apply scaffolding techniques and tools to other experiments.
16:00
4:00 PM
Practical Pluriliteracies (CLIL and beyond)
Kevin Schuck
This session activity is a hands-on experience that will take participants from the basics of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) to apractical activity that supporets a deeper learning episodes supporting the transfer of learning across language and subject(s), based on the Pluriliteracies model.
At the end of this session you will have created a practical deeper learning episode to use in their own subject discipline lessons
Friday October 8th
Preparing a CLIL lesson
10:00 AM
Australia and Europe - Implementation of the 4Cs
Linton Roe
During this interview Linton Roe will answer questions regarding the differences and similarities between Australian and European CLIL implementation.
At the end of this session you can explain points of similarity and difference in CLIL implementation.
11:00 AM
Panel Discussion
During this panel discussion you can ask questions to the experts present.
Experts present in this panel discussion:
Linton Roe
Chantal Hemmi
Phil Ball
Amanda Van Dijk - van't Noordende
15:00
3:00 pm
The shape of a CLIL didactic sequence
Phil Ball
We talk about 'lesson plans' but lessons exist as components of longer sequences of learning. What do these sequences look like, and what activity/task types do they consist of? Thinking about these task types and the 'shape' of a didactic sequence can help us plan our teaching more coherently and help L2 learners to stay focused on the 'what are we doing?' and the 'why are we doing it?'.
At the end of this session you can identify the components of a didactic sequence
20:00
8:00 pm
Preparing a CLIL lesson in 15 minutes
Patrick de Boer
Lots of teachers spend (almost) the same amount on planning their CLIL lessons compared to actually teaching it. This does not have to be the case. With a step-by-step approach to planning a CLIL lesson this can be done in a short amount of time. Especially with the activities and resources mentioned in this training.
At the end of this session you can prepare a CLIL lesson in 15 minutes or less.
About Patrick de Boer
Patrick de Boer is a CLIL coach, teacher trainer and former editor-in-chief of CLIL Magazine. With almost 15 years of experience teaching CLIL mathematics in secondary education and coaching fellow teachers, he shares his ideas on regular basis on his blog and trains CLIL teachers worldwide with both online and offline courses and workshops.
Organizing this online CLIL Summit is just one of the ways he wants to help CLIL teachers worldwide to connect and learn from each other, because he feels many teachers are still reinventing the wheel too often, spending too much time on things others have already figured out. In other words: he would like to help CLIL teachers to teach (even) better lessons while preparing them in less time without sacrificing quality of the lesson itself.
Frequently Asked Questions
Just in case I forgot something
The sessions will be recorded and be available for 48 hours. But it is obviously a lot more fun to be part of the summit live!
No need to buy anything! The resources and ideas shared during this summit will be applicable to your lesson without any additional costs. And yes: the aim of the summit is to be as practical as possible.
The summit will be organized from October 4th to October 8th.
The sessions are planned throughout the day to accomodate different timezones and teacher availability.
You can scroll through the entire schedule by clicking here.
After you have registered, you will receive a confirmation mail with information on how to join the sessions.
During each day of the summit you will receive an overview of 'what to expect' in the morning and an overview of 'what we have learned today' in the evening.
All sessions will make use of Zoom software. This software is free to use and allows for interaction and hassle-free communication.
CLIL teachers around the world! Both primary and secondary teachers will find interesting topics to explore and will gain valuable insights for their CLIL lessons.
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