450 – Introduction to CLIL in Primary Maths

Course Description:

During this training, the participants will be discussing how to motivate students to actively engage in both Mathematics and English. They will learn a variety of ways to implement language activities in a primary Maths lesson.

In addition, the participants will discover the language challenges a primary student might face during a Maths lesson. The sessions also focus on the challenges that primary maths teachers face and allow the participants to apply the activities themselves to experience what students go through.

 

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Requirements for a Certificate:

Minimum attendance requirement is 75% of course events.

Assessed portfolio work for practical tasks like group and individual planning, observation, demonstration, micro-teaching, discussion and feedback sessions.

1000-word end of course Reflective Essay.

 

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Course Outline:

450.01 – Types and Definitions of CLIL

450.02 – CLIL Contexts, Students

450.03 – Exploring source materials, textbooks

450.04 – Planning topics, lessons – Investigating tasks and language

450.05 – Curriculum guidelines and language demands

450.06 – Investigating subject specific language

450.07 – Providing Language Support – Guiding and Supporting

450.08 – Classroom language – Teacher talk

450.09 – Subject-specific terminology and teaching vocabulary

450.10 – Making presentations

450.11 – Project work: Applying CLIL to a maths lesson

450.12 – Error correction and Assessment in CLIL