THIRTEENTH SESSION: The final outcome

Session objectives: 

Teachers will present their final CLIL projects to be implemented next semester, proposals will be evaluated at the end of the session.

Teachers will make a final evaluation of the course.


We have come to the end of this part of our  fruitful CLIL course, but this is just the beginning of the materialisation of your wonderful proposals. It's time to consider what is needed , apart from your efforts and initiavives, to make CLIL happen at USTA. Let's hear what Dr Marsh, has to share with us and let's see how far we are from countries that have had great success in implementing CLIL...

COMMENTS AND OTHER 
Dear colleagues, this has been a magnificent, rewarding and empowering experience for me as a teacher, and I can't thank you enough for being so eager, and so determined to get better at what you do with your students. I urge you to keep this enthusiasm and congratulate you all for your great proposals. Osmith Vides Contreras

Finding students willing to learn and put into practice what is taught is kind of hard these days, but finding extraordinary, committed and engaged students that go beyond the lessons is a blessing! Every one of you is not only a wonderful human being but also an amazing teacher. Sharing, reflecting, laughing and learning with you during these 13 sessions has been one of the most beautiful experiences in my professional life. I only have words of praise for you and your fabulous work and I know, from the bottom of my heart, this path we started in this course will lead you to great, enormous success which, all of you deserve because now you are no longer the teachers that came in the classroom on June 17th. Well done, real teachers! Andrea Jiménez Chaparro

TWELFTH SESSION: Making it happen

Session objective:

Teachers will learn about the demands, conditions and evaluation criteria of the final outcome for this course. 

Teachers will work on the final proposal for a model of CLIL for their course.

In this session we took the opportunity to recap on all aspects we had covered in this incredibly fruitful course, but the ball is now in your hands, you teachers are the designers of your courses. It's time to put your ideas into action and think of a realistic manner to create a model of CLIL feasible. As we said, there is not a single model of CLIL;  it's up to each educational institution to create their own. Let's see what Dr. Marsh has to say about this...

ACTIVITIES

Teachers received a Resource Pack for them to use in order to improve their CLIL practices.
Teachers learnt about the evaluation criteria more formally. 

Teachers worked in their final proposals.

ARTICLES_RESOURCES AND MORE

This was all given to you personally. We hope you make the most of it, exploit it, enlarge it.

ELEVENTH SESSION: Speaking English in the CLIL classroom

Session objective:
Teachers will reflect about the importance of promoting speaking activities in the CLIL classroom, and how to go about it.

When talking about a CLIL classroom some very important aspects have to be taken into account;often times,  it's through speaking tasks that you, as teacher, can be coherent with some of the principles of CLIL. Have a look at this video and think about how CLIL oriented your practices are.

ACTIVITIES
In this session teachers had the opportunity to consider why and how to improve the STT ( Student's Talking Time) in the classroom, and specially how to do that in L2.
Teachers had to do three speaking tasks and think about how to use them in their lessons.
Teachers thought about the type of tasks they could plan to help their students succeed in their final outcome.

ARTICLES_RESOURCES AND MORE
Here is a good website to help you improve your speaking tasks  
https://sites.google.com/site/englishforclilteachers/academic-english/academic-english-in-higher-education

To get  ideas for problem solving situations: http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/interviews/balloonDebate.htm  KENT UNIVERSITY: GREAT  website for resources of speaking 

TENTH SESSION: How to become an objective evaluator

Session objectives:
Make teachers reflect about the importance of evaluating oral outcomes properly.
Progress on the CLIL proposal

This session focused on how to evaluate students' outcome in fair and objetive way. Also, we talked about ways to make our students feel at ease while being evaluated and the type of questions we should ask to verify our students have achieved the learning objectives. 
Wacth this video to get an idea on how the session went. 

ACTIVITIES
Teachers watched the video and discussed several aspects regarding the right way to evaluate.
Teachers learnt about the importance of using rubrics to be a more objective evaluator.
Teachers thought about the best rubrics to evaluate their students' outcome.

     ARTICLES_RESOURCES AND MORE

     The following is a rubric to help you become better at rubric making. 

NINETH SESSION : Objectives, outcomes, assessment, evaluation.

Session objectives:

Make teachers realise the coherence that must exist between the main objective of their subjects and the final outcome they choose to verify if their students have actually achieved it. Consider the relevance of assessment and evaluation to maintain such coherence. 


In order to start this session teachers were asked to think about the differences between assessment and evaluation and the importance of each.  In this video you will get another answer to this question.

ACTIVITIES

Teachers had the opportunity to redefine the outcome they expect their students to reach by the end of their courses.
They evaluated the different techniques and instruments they use for assessment and evaluation.
They started thinking about how to evaluate the final outcome.

ARTICLES_RESOURCES AND MORE
Some recommeded articles on this topic: Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education http://www.thenationalacademy.org/readings/assessandeval.html  more to come...

EIGHTH SESSION: Start translating theory into action

Session objective:

Students had time to start thinking about how to give good use to what they have learnt so far in this course. It was the time to start aligning the different levels of the curriculum, it was the time to start working on a concrete proposal to start implrmenting CLIL in their core subjects lessons.  

Before starting this serious piece of work some things had be discussed and agreed upon.That is why, in this session we talked about the importance of always bearing in mind that whatever we design for our lessons has to be coherent with an upper level of  the curriculum, we ( teachers) are accountable for, the meso-curriculum and even a higher one which is the macro-curriculum; yet, we must always remember what the real world demands from all of us. In short, all of this can be summarised as in the illustration below.  

ACTIVITIES
You analised the learning objectives of your core subject programmes.
You thought about the way to align them with your student's outcome.
You started thinking about ways to insert a CLIL model that fits your student's needs, interests and resources available.

ARTICLES_RESOURCES AND MORE

SEVENTH SESSION: Giving instructions

Session objective:
Students learnt how to give instructions properly in both general and academic situations.


A few things you need to bear in mind when giving instructions, I hope this helps you clear things out.

ACTIVITIES
In this session students learnt in a practical manner how to give instructions to improve their lessons outcome.
Students  had to create a game, write the intructions and then give them to another team.
Students worked on improving their portfolios.

ARTICLES_RESOURCES AND MORE
Here is a short article about this topic. You'll find it useful http://nelearn.myelearning.org/mod/page/view.php?id=194 . More to come