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CLIL at the PHTPädagogische Hochschule Tirol

Study Visit

CLIL Skills to support Teacher and Trainer Mobility

Mag. Melanie Steinermelanie.steiner@ph-tirol.ac.at

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The Pädagogische Hochschule TirolPedagogical University Tirol

Located in Innsbruck, AustriaThe PHT offer courses leading to a Bachelor Degree in Education and teaching qualification at the following levels and in the following subjects areas:

•Primary Schools•Lower Secondary Schools•Special Needs Education•Apprenticeship Schools and Vocational Colleges•Home Economics and Nutrition Educaction•Information and Communication Pedagogy

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Teaching Practice is one of the priorities of the Pedagogical University Tirol.Attached to the PHT are two Practice Schools – Primary and Lower Secondary.

In Addition to a full Bachelor of Education Degree students can take a teaching qualification in•Pre-Vocational Year Education•Workshops for Middle and Higher Technical Schools

The PHT also offers many in-service training courses for more than 11.000 teachers

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CLIL Practice in Austria

• Primary–National curricular requirement–Bilingual schools: English, Italian, French

• Bilingual Schools–GIBS: Graz International Bilingual School, LISA etc.–Vienna Bilingual Schools

• Primary & Lower Secondary• Bilingual Classes

–Grammar Schools: Provincial capitals–Vocational Schools – Commercial, Technical: some

development• Initiatives – Bottom-up & Top-Down

–Lower Secondary Schools–Grammar Schools–Vocational Schools

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Austrian Educational System

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Primary• ML at Primary Level since 1962• Curricular requirement to integrate English into the general Primary

School curriculum since 1998• Themes: everyday life, themes from general curriculum• Subjects: all except German

Curriculum & Educational Aims

• Compulsory L2 instruction from Year 1– Ca. 96% English

• Integrated language learning in Years 1 & 2: short phases across the curriculum

• From Year 3 lessons + continuing integrated instruction• Motivation & preparation for language learning & communication• Tolerance & openess• European values

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Primary CLIL

Integration at Primary

•Sending out to play, calling back in, collecting money for cocoa, the morning chat•Facilitation: providing opportunities to react through body language•Matching activities•Analogy – multiplication – carry on in English•Handicraft: look, watch me•Gym•Listening to Stories

Discrepancies

•Excellent curriculum•Wonderful materials•Lack of success in up to 50% (?) of schools•Problem of qualifications •Austrian policy: class teacher

– Good & Bad•Interim solution?•L2 is a problem for the teacher, not the pupilsInterview with Gerlinde Egger, Methodolgist

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CLIL at Secondary• Legalities: Secondary

• Curriculum– Teaching through the medium

of a language other than German covered by § 16/3• L2 can be employed if

considered a benefit• Can be applied to a school,

class, subjects, lessons• Original purpose: minority

languages

Status Quo & Challenges

• A growing number of bilingual schools/ streams•Large number of initiatives•Need for qualified staff•Staff qualified especially in limited number of subjects: Biology, Geography, History, Psychology•Qualification not stipulated•No formal evaluation

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CLIL Module at the PHT

The forte of the module at the PHT is that one-third of course time is spent on subject methodology and held by the respective subject methodologist rather than the language specialist. The organisation may indeed be more straightforward within a smaller institution.PHT: Module•3 ECTS•Obligatory for all students on Lower Secondary Course•3 Strands: English, German, Maths•Courses on subject methodologies integrated into Module•Back-up on Moodle•No links to teaching practice

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Learning Outcomes: Students are expected to have acquired•Knowledge about CLIL principles and theories and an overview of the application of the CLIL Approach in Europe•Knowledge about CLIL Methodologies•The Competence to apply CLIL Methodologies in Second Subject(s) and also to co-operate with colleagues from other subject areas•An awareness of available resources and the ability to work with new media in the CLIL classroom

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