COURSE SUMMARY:
This is a highly practical one-week training programme which covers a broad span of teaching ideas and activities to enliven lessons and make them more motivating. This course is for those, who would like to use Art as a vehicle for teaching language. In this way, students could be learning much more than just the language and would be learning very interesting content about Art as well. This would add to their knowledge of culture, history and general knowledge.
This course could also be interesting for Art teachers using CLIL. No specialised knowledge about Art is necessary.
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Teachers of English and other languages who teach in secondary schools or work in adult or vocational education.
Participants need to be at a B1 level of English.
PREPARATION:
After registration, partcipants on this course programme will receive:
- A pre-course questionnaire which will enable trainers to learn about the participants' teaching backgrounds
- Information about the Europass Mobility Certificate
- Information about Malta to prepare teachers for their cultural experience
OBJECTIVES:
- To enable a be-er understanding of Language Teaching using Art as a vehicle
- To introduce new areas of teaching techniques, using hands-on experiental methods
- To help teachers reflect on their own teaching methods and develop teaching skills
- To introduce an awareness of technology and ICT in the classroom today
- To introduce and incorporate critical thinking skills for learners
- To further develop participants’ own language skills
- To experience the cultural heritage of Malta with its bilingual environment
METHODOLOGY:
Sessions demonstrate current EFL teaching approaches, methodologies and techniques. An interactive communicative approach is applied, which provides participants with their own experiental learning of the activities and methodologies. Input sessions are in the form of hands-on workshops and involve brainstorming, analysis and problem-solving, both in pair work and group work. Teachers are asked to reflect on the activities, inviting discussion with regard to their own pedagogical knowledge and skills, teaching methods and on the adaptation of activities to their teaching and learning situations. Both teaching and learning are explored and discussed, further enabling the participants’ use of their communication skills in English. Participants are actively involved in the sessions to maximize their learning and to experience activities from their learners’ point of view. Participants are also introduced to key websites related to Art for content.
FOLLOW UP:
- The course ends with an evaluation session, where teachers are asked to reflect upon the value of the knowledge gained on the course and its usefulness to them.
- They are also encouraged in this session to come up with a Personal Development Action Plan, and select activities which they would like to try out in their own classes or projects.
- They are invited to join the our Teacher Training Facebook community, which allows networking and contact with the trainers and fellow colleagues, and with participants from other courses.
- Participants are also encouraged to join communities for the POOLS Projects, and other related EU Projects, such as METHODS (Communicative Language Teaching Methods), TOOLS, and CLIL4U.
- In addition, participants are given a post-course 3 month subscription to our e-Learning online site to further develop their language knowledge and skills.
SAMPLE PROGRAMME:
1) Monday
- Why look at Art? What is Art to you?
- The CLIL Element. The 5 Cs Cognition
- Prehistoric Art
2) Tuesday
- The Evolution of Art
- Teaching Critical Thinking Through Art
3) Wednesday
- The Worldwide Web of Art
- Webquests
- Art Detective
4) Thursday
- Sensory Percetions in Art
- Art from the East
- Female Painters
5) Friday
- 3-D Art
- Busy vs Solitary Paintings
- Portraits Course
- Evaluation
PROGRAMME FEES INCLUDES:
- Tuition /Training (1 week) over 5 training days
- Social Programme including Half Day Guided Tours (to Malta’s Capital City Valletta / to the old Medieval City of Mdina)
- Airport Transfers : Shuttle Airport Transfers Arrival + Departure; from/to Malta Airport to /from Accommodation (when booked through our school only!)
- Mobility Euro Pass Certificate
- End-of-Course Certificate
OTHER INFORMATION:
- The School will be closed on public holidays. The schedule for the week including a public holiday will be adjusted to make up the lost training hours on the public holiday on that particular week.
- A social programme including weekly cultural guided tours will be confirmed every Monday. Participation on any activities is optional.
- Classes normally runs from 9:00-14:30 with two brakes. Number of lessons: 22,5 hours (1 lesson=60 min) + 2.5 hours of E learning self- study (5 homework on-line links; lessons about Malta, to cover the cultural aspects) + cultural tours. Therefore thw certificate lists 25 hours/week. If someone misses any lessons, eg 1.5h, it will show ‘ 23.5 hours out of 25 hours.
Przykładowe zajęcia dodatkowe:
diving *, golf *, mountain hiking
boat cruises *, city tour/walk, conversation practice, country walk/trekking, cultural activities, guided city tours, international evenings, orientation tour, pub and restaurant evenings, sightseeng
Valetta *, Megalithic temples *, Hypogeum Temple *, Mdina *, The Three Cities *, Blue Grotto *, Marsaxlokk *, Gozo *
* zajęcia dodatkowo płatne
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