Workshop 2013

Welcome to our 2013 Study Visit in Bilbao. In this page you will find the links to the work you are preparing for the workshop where you will be able to work together discussing successful practices to improve Language teaching quality.

Information about European countries’ educational systems are available through our home page and also here, for you to have a general idea of the topic before coming to the Basque Country.

Language teaching in our countries: Questionnaires and tables

To make it easier for you, we will gather also here the documents you have sent to us (table + questionnaire). We recommend you to have a look at them before your arrival, so that, all along the week, you can clarify any doubt that can arise related to the way things are done in other countries.

1. Basic Documents:

• Letter & Questionnaire

• Table_template&guide

• Table_all countries (you can only view the doc through this link. To work on it, you should use the link provided by email)

2. Participants' questionnaires

• Latvia (Balode, Evelina)

• Poland (Lamek, Andrzej)

• Czeck Rep. (Petrekova, Drahomira)

• Portugal (Lázaro, João).

• See also file at the bottom of this page: "Portugal_foreign language teaching"

• Italy (Mazziotti, Adriano)

Thursday workshop: successful practices to improve language teaching-learning quality

On Thursday, we will hold a workshop to share ideas about how to improve language-teaching (and learning) quality. We expect to produce a kind of "Decalogue" of successful practices related to several issues on language teaching and learning.

We will use an adaptation of "The World-Café" format : we will make 4 groups of 5 people. Each group will have to choose an issue out of three, and make proposals that will be shared in big group. Then, we will organise 4 different groups to discuss a second issue (out of three), sharing, again, their contributions in big group.

Detailed information and resources (included translation to several languages) about " The World-Café" can be found here.

Topics for discussion:

• 1st block of issues:

  • Promoting students' reflection on their learning process

  • Ways to organise coordination between content and language teachers (every teacher is a CLIL teacher).

  • Coping with mixed-ability classes. How can ICT help? How do other tools/strategies help?

• 2nd block of issues:

  • Promoting teachers' reflection on teaching-learning process

  • ways to guarantee the level of content to be learned when teaching it in a second-third language

  • another topic proposed by the team

Our Decalogue of successful practices: