Meeting minutes for CLIL Conference Malta 16-20 March 2015

Julie Galea MCAST

Monday 16 March 2015

Opening and welcoming John Sciberras MCAST explanation of MCAST and information on dinner and plan for the week. And Kent’s welcome

Status & Updates of past activities:

  • SDE: Followed development of CLIL book, which Kent loves! They have given feedback of scenarios and created 7 vocational available in Danish and English. Attended a CLIL conference in Venice, the EfVET conference in Bilbao,has proposed a presentation at Eurocall 2015 in Padova, and is trying to arrange a round table for CLIL discussion during the EfVET 2015 conference. Has improved the materials bank database interface and added content. Has prepared online pre-course language units for Danish, Greek, Italian, Spanish, and Maltese.
  • Italian team; contributed to databank, uploaded information to school website, completed all scenarios and giving feedback to other institutes
  • Spanish team – scenarios almost complete, disseminated CLIL to student families, Marion has presented the project to the CECE Board, newsletters have been sent out and information put in local magazine, translated book and some teachers have finished the language pre-course.
  • Intercollege- Disseminated and distributed brochures to many teachers during teacher development day. Activities in public schools in Cyprus and the first technical school of Nicosia. More disseminations to State funded school and is called Gymnasium. Teacher’s training day a lot of theory and wish to do more workshop style. Mostly vocational teachers around 55 pax. There was a follow-up. They want to get advice on how to get more teachers involved in teacher training.
  • ETI since September, have finished the language pre-course and are trying to finish scenariossubmitted and get them edited. They have also finished the CLIL4 U main course and have submitted it to the group as part of the pilot course and for review. They have disseminated to smaller groups usually through Erasmus groups. Up to 400 have participated and another 60 at Easter. The pre-course to improve English is going well and many are interested. ETI introduced the idea of applying for the “European Language Label” as a good opportunity for all schools.
  • SUPSI- updated school website and Facebook. Have tested parts of scenarios of Kent’s. They have had students complete a student survey and then participate in a marketing class (1st year University students) this will provide feedback. Material has uploaded materials to database and translated scenarios and guidebook into Italian. They have co-taught with another school and now content teacher will be teaching the new course. The language course has been forwarded to the many teachers and have done a lot of internal dissemination and actually using the method and adapting materials for use in the classroom.
  • Danish team- Rikke has been completing reports/ financial – have contacted institutes for teacher training, have written an article on CLIL and it has been published in a language teachers magazine! Super Heroes has been translated into German. Using CLIL and testing scenarios. They are seeing the children developing their language skills. They went to one of the largest Education Festival and made a CLIL stand. There was a steady flow of people to share information with. They handed out lesson plans ‘teaching to go’ and scenarios. Made many contacts. A school in Spain has contacted them, which are sending two teachers to their school to learn CLIL.

Some reminders and decisions

Make sure that local copies of work are saved so that material can be moved from Dropbox because they are limited to space.

Kent is posing the question about accreditation of the course. Sandra agrees that MCAST has a great opportunity to get the course accredited and present a teacher training course.

It was decided to offer compressed (.zip) files containing all the files for each scanario

Walk through of the Final & Progress Report – Kent

  • Explained that he is not going to be coordinating future EU funded projects- But can work as a partner - SDE has decided to reduce its future project commitments:-(
  • Important to put in exploitation and who we are having an impact on with regards to sharing CLIL
  • All information has been put on the DVDs that Kent has passed around to all members for file
  • We have used more teachers than we have actually stated 120.
  • We are on target and looking forward to the courses being delivered
  • Changes that have been made – pupils will learn about an additional language other than their own language. Face time and iPads are options to think about
  • It is important that all information is documented – all activities that have been done by the partners. Transnational activities has been evident throughout the project and also email correspondence is just passed 2000.
  • Sandra asked if we already had feedback and Kent explained that David and Maria are sub-contracted advisors and are just giving us advice and their feedback. The feedback coming back from the official EU evaluator and according to our score and any feedback provided we will have to act on and respond to quickly
  • Scores can be improved – the worst scenario would be to receive a perfect score because then we won’t know where to improve
  • Mail feedback and quotes or letters received from those that have received information about CLIL because the evaluators like/need to see this as real evidence
  • Impact report -Exploitation figures- who has benefited from the courses and the CLIL4U materials and Guidebook * remember to document this information and keep records up to date

Remember the target group, number of participants

  • For future events let Kent know that you are updating in Dropbox so that he can number them and put them in order-
  • All reports to be filled in will be sent to everyone to be filled in and updated

Second half of first day meeting-

Kent showed the Guidebook in English and in Maltese to show that there is very little difference between the formats and follows the same design.

In the future Kent would like to be able to offer a password to the materials bank database so that someone could upload new material.

It was also pointed out that some material has been uploaded to the materials bank, but it is not showing the material. The reason is that the up-loader must click “Show”.

Tuesday 17 March 2015

Kent and Sandra attended a meeting for Education Labels for CLIL and John welcomed teams. Members continued working in pairs on modules 7-10 to be completed for feedback session.

  • Working on the modules in the course morning-
  • Afternoon feedback session
  • Jan – log written
  • Saving issues and suggested to save
  • Reference to module in the PaPeR
  • Suggestion time for completing modules 1.5 to 2 hours per module on average
  • The learning diary is suggested to open in another window tab to make visible
  • The Guidebook could be opened in another tab, as well
  • Index to learning diary and make it one document with page breaks to separate the modules and prevent a lot of alignment problems
  • Share boxes to be removed and at end for the questions to bring to F2F
  • Substitute clines for another word to show degree
  • Add footer with page number
  • Reflection page- Sandra gives the metaphor of the jug, students (and teachers in this case) do not learn simply by being given data, therefore reflection is important.

Wednesday 18 March 2015

P2P training for the CLIL pre-course. Sandra went through the plan for how the face to face would take place and activities that could be done as intro, pair work and to engage discussion. We were quizzed and a discussion followed regarding the additional language aspect. We divided into teams and went through our work from the modules to share. Lesa, Jan, Germania and Julie’s discussion was about Learning Module 4 and the self-evaluation and after discussion Sandra agreed to put the evaluation in a separate folder that can be done after the Modules have been completed.

Thursday 19 March 2015

  • Jan and Germania SUPSI give the information regarding the filming. They are planning a 15 minute video that will be divided into three shorter videos; an intro, primary scenarios and VET scenarios. They will be coming to Malta on Friday 27 March and then to the Italian team for filming primary. All teams will be represented. The actions will be the explanation so there will be limited dialogue to be translated.
  • All teams will be in credits, logos and EU disclaimer
  • Pictures of each school partner, photos of CLIL logo represented from each school. Interesting and engaging photos and collect the experiences
  • Sandra brings up the point that perhaps showcasing teachers why CLIL would work for them. Can we put in a promotion shot for CLIL courses that are available throughout partner countries?
  • We broke up into groups Primary / Vocational to discuss the video components and brainstorm together different ideas for video filming
  • Regroup, explain agenda for Friday meeting

Friday 20 March 2015

The meeting was moved to the“White House” (ETI Building), the following points were presented and debated:

  • Audit requirements for Final Report
  • Dissemination plans for 2015 and 2016
  • How do we ensure future exploitation of the outputs?
  • Teacher course schedules
  • Travel days for next meeting: Arrival September 27th end of workshop October 2nd so departure late afternoon/evening October 2nd or October 3rd (depending on flight availability and prices)
  • Evaluation of the workshop
  • Quality Assessment Board meeting and simultaneous debate of the video plans from today

Content to be covered during the Madrid meeting:

  • Pedagogical checkup on materials and courses guided by Maria / David
  • Full days work separately for Primary school and VET colleges
  • Quality check on progress and the courses that have been run – AND feedback from course participants
  • What changes do we need before the meeting in Cyprus
  • Plans for exploitation
  • Promotional materials to be developed for parents and employers

Madrid workshop workdays are September 28th through October 2nd

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