An approach to alternative methodologies through ICT: Courses

Courses

1. CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning): Practical Methodology for Primary Teachers

Gloucester, UK 2/07 – 15/07 2017
http://www.international-study-programmes.org.uk/documents/424_info_primary_clil_teachers_courses_2017.pdf

2. Practical uses of mobile technologies in the language classroom
Canterbury 30/07 - 05/08 2017

http://www.pilgrims.co.uk/_files/2018%20cis%20summer/9D8773EE07F802A2401B5FFFE804BA61.pdf

3. Get up with Natural Sciences!

Joensuu FINLAND 15/05 – 19/05 2018

https://www.edukarjala.com/11

4. Every Pupil is important! – Special education in Finland and in Europe!

Joensuu FINLAND 5/05 – 9/05 2018

https://www.edukarjala.com/6

5. CLIL- Methodology and ICT Tools for Teachers Working with CLIL

Malta 11/06 – 22/06 2018

http://www.etimalta.com/course/clil-online-tools-for-teachers-working-with-clil-2-weeks/#Introduction

Content

1. CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning): Practical Methodology for Primary Teachers

I attended a course in Gloucester, England from the 2nd to the 15th July. The course was called CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning): Practical Methodology for Primary Teachers.

The objectives of the course were the following:

Familiarise participants with examples of good practice in CLIL
Increase understanding of the potential of CLIL methodology
Encourage participants to develop CLIL projects relevant to their own context and pupils’ ability.
Provide a variety of new teaching ideas, practical classroom skills and materials.
Increase participants’ knowledge of Britain and the British.

The course gave us the chance to reflect on:

Our national curriculum and look for general topics which best suit the age of their pupils.
The characteristics and needs of the CLIL learner in second language acquisition.
Methodological approaches to facilitate the communication of the content through English (Co-operative Learning, TPR (Total Physical Response), frequent rephrasing, and use of realia/pictures/mime/mini-plays/group work).
The use of authentic materials and their suitability in second language acquisition for young learners. Through group work participants will gain experience in planning CLIL lessons (learners’ motivation; communicative skills; materials; expected language re-action; expected outcomes; assessment and evaluation) and developing CLIL materials related to different subjects.

We also visited two primary schools which granted us the opportunity to observe lessons in a variety of subjects and to discuss with the teachers to attempt to import positive things from their system to ours.

It was a very intense 2-week course which mixed formal lessons and hands-on activities.

The course was imparted mainly by Silvana Rampone, a very experienced primary teacher, who's an eTwinning ambassador and a CLIL teacher trainer.

These are some of the teaching activities we made during the course:

In this padlet my classmates and I shared feedback on the course:

2. Practical uses of mobile technologies in the language classroom

From the 30th July until the 5th August I attended a course called Practical Uses of Mobile Technology in the Classroom. The course, which was 32 clock hours, covered the following topics:

What is technology?
Privacy and security issues in the online platforms
Mobile Pedagogy for Language Teaching and Learning
TPACK
New Trends in Educational Technology
Educational Technology and Instructional Technology
Introduction to Instructional Design and E-Learning
E-Learning, Mobile Learning & Ubiquitous Learning
Multimedia Design Principles
Digital Storytelling
Educational Apps
Augmented Reality in Education
Creative multimedia Design and Development
Collaborative Creativity
Introduction to Flipped Classroom
Gamification and Game-Based Learning
Pedagogical and Technical Challenges of Using Mobile Technology in Language Education
How to integrate new technology into your classroom

This was my group of classmates and teacher:

The parts that I enjoyed the most where the ones where we were told how to use Mobile Technologies in our lessons.

We had a group in EDMODO where we could share all our information with our teacher and with other students. The last day of the course, we had to present in PADLET the Apps that we found the most interesting for our lessons and tell our reasons to choose them. This is the link:

https://padlet.com/crimarpaj74/wkscv24ym1b6

Some interesting Apps and Web pages:

AURASMA: You can use Augmented Reality to prepare Scavenger Hunts.
QUIVER: You paint an image and you see it in 4D and moving.
TELLAGAMI: To record 30 seconds messages.
SOCRATIVE: It has more options than Kahoot.
QR STUFF: To create QR codes.

3. Get up with Natural Sciences!

I attended a course in Joensuu, Finland from the 15^th to the 19th May. The course was called “Get up with Natural Sciences”

Course aims are:

Participants will learn new pedagogical ways to use modern equipment in science lessons.
They also will get new ideas how to motivate modern pupils and students with games, modern technology and equipment.
Participants learn also how to build an interesting workshop about science used in big event.
They also learn English language terminology used in science lessons.
Participants will also get new contacts around the Europe and learn also pedagogical things from each other’s.

Thematic field of the training:

* Natural sciences

* Science event

* Modern technology and ICT

* Pedagogical development

* Comparing European Science teaching

* Modern school laboratories

* Chemistry, Physics, biology, geography

* Curriculum development

Education sector of the training participants:

- pre-primary, primary, general secondary, general upper secondary

Target audience: All teachers and other involved

Languages used for the training: English

Schedule of five days:

1st day 15.00 let’s get together Europe! Getting to know each other’s, course providers and city of Joensuu and Finland. Finnish education system. Participant presentations of their own school systems and science teaching curriculum.

2nd day School visit, building a workshop to SciFest 2017/2018 event.

3rd day Take part in SciFest event in Joensuu arena. Group has its own workshop to run. Visit to university of Eastern Finland, center of natural sciences. Visit to North Karelia museum.SciFest event continues with same theme. Visit to Joensuu yhteiskoulu upper secondary school. Meeting science teachers and visiting lessons.