‘What does a successful CLIL course look like?’

Experiences from secondary CLIL teacher training

Keith Kelly – NILE UK

Key questions

• What are areas of CLIL TT core content?

• What skills do CLIL teachers need?

• What is CLIL and where do I fit in?

• What makes CLIL TT different from other forms of teacher education?

• What is the role of materials design?

• What is the best way to deal with assessment?

What are areas of core content for CLIL TT?

• Guiding input

• Supporting output

What skills do CLIL teachers need?

• Language

• Language awareness

• Content

• Materials writing/adaptation

• Networking

What is CLIL and where do I fit in?

• ELT CLIL – Soft CLIL

• Content CLIL – Hard CLIL

What makes CLIL TT different from other forms of teacher education?

• It focuses on the content curriculum and places it within a foreign language

• Discourse analysis

• Ideational frameworks

What is the role of materials design in CLIL TT?

• Central – 50%

• Few content CLIL resources on the market

Diet and disease…

How do we ‘guide the processing of input?’

How do we ‘support the output?’

Guiding…

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What is the best way to deal with assessment in CLIL TT?

• Accessible input

• Achievable output

• You can’t test what you haven’t taught

NILE Courses

• From Key Principles to Best practice in CLIL: Teaching English Across the Curriculum

• MAPDLE – MA CLIL Module (NILE and Leeds Met)

• 50% materials writing and micro-teaching