CLIL - Content and Language Integrated Learning CLIL
CLIL - Content and Language Integrated Learning
Macmillan organise a teacher training tour of 18 workshops for colleagues around Bulgaria
Macmillan Workshop 10, Sofia, the last for this school year
June 19th, 2008
Project Work in the classroom... read more here
Macmillan Workshops 9 was in Haskovo
June 5th, 2008
Biology, Physics, Chemistry and English Teachers come together... read more here
Macmillan Workshops 7 and 8 were in Burgas and Varna
29th - 30th May, 2008
Two really great groups of teachers and sunny weather on the Black Sea coast... read more here
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1 The tour started in
The English - German School, Plovdiv, Feb 22, 2008 2 School visit and Macmillan workshop no. 2, Sofia, March 14th, 2008 3 Macmillan workshop no. 3, Blagoevgrad, March 21st, 20084-5 Macmillan Workshops 4 and 5 were in Sofia, April 17th and May 16th, 2008 6 Macmillan goes to Stara Zagora, May 22nd, 2008 7-8 Varna and Bourgas Macmillan Workshops, 29th and 30th May, 2008 9 Haskovo Macmillan Workshop, 5th June, 2008 10 Sofia Macmillan Workshop, 19th June, 2008 on Project Work
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| The tour started in The English - German School, Plovdiv, Feb 22, 2008 | |
| Many thanks to Marianna Gencheva, senior English Expert at
the Regional Inspectorate of Education in Plovdiv for her assistance in
making this even happen and bringing in nearly 30 teachers to the workshop. The topic of the workshop was 'vocabulary'. |
 Marianna and Yordan wish I'd stop taking pictures... |
| It's great to be able to participate in something like this.
Some of you may know that I worked for 8 years at the English-German School
in Plovdiv and this was a great opportunity to meet up with former
colleagues and friends. In fact, I spoke with school director, Valentin Karaminev, about coming back and since have arranged to go in to the Prep classes once every two weeks to help with the work of the 6 colleagues who teach their. I'll report on how that goes. |
 Dan gets us started |
 Very bad technique standing in front of the projector... |
I'd prepared my workshop based on work with subject teachers and the difficult job they have in dealing with the heavy load of new words each class that they have to teach to their learners. |
| Though I had my materials ready, Yordan Stoyanov - Macmillan rep in Bulgaria, sent me a chapter from the Scrivener publication 'Learning Teaching'. The chapter was on vocabulary. |
I followed ideas from Scrivener in my presentation.
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You can download the mindmap from here |
I particularly liked what Scrivener writes about organising
words to facilitate learning and so I rewrote my workshop to incorporate
many of his ideas. One of these was the idea of mapping words. I decided to prepare a mind map based on the chapter.
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We covered many things, concordancing, total cloze tasks,
concept mapping software, discourse analysis, terrible materials students
are expected to work with in learning in English and many others. But I don't want to give all my secrets away! You'll have to get in touch and ask me if you'd like to know more, or better still come along to one of the workshops. Next stop Sofia at Knazhevo TT institute on 14th March. After that, Blagoevgrad on the 21st March. |
Hope to see you there!
March 06, 2008
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