“CLIL lessons related to ecology and environmental protection”

The first Learning, Teaching, Training activity was initially scheduled for April 2021. Unfortunately, all the partners were at lockdown at that time of the year and the activity was postponed. The coordinator informed the NA via email for the necessity of rescheduling the activity. As some of the partners were at lockdown until the third week of June and having in mind that the school year of host country /Portugal/ starts on 17 September, the activity was rescheduled for the end of September.

The main objectives of the activity are to give teachers from the participating countries opportunity to share their experience in relation to the design of CLIL lessons.

The Learning, teaching, Training Activity impact could be described as follows:

1. Impact related to the participating teachers increase in knowledge and development of teachers’ key competences:

1.1 Teachers professional competences and teaching knowledge were improved through the process of sharing teaching experience and attending lessons;

1.2 Teachers knowledge and competences related to the way we could use CLIL in the process of teaching ecology and environment protection were improved;

1.3 Teachers knowledge and competences related to the ecology and environmental awareness were improved due to the topic of the CLIL lessons presented

2. Objectives related to the participating students increase in knowledge and development of students’ key competences

2.1 Language competences of the participating students were increased as they were taking part in CLIL lessons in English

2.2 Their knowledge and competences related to the ecology and environmental awareness were improved due to the ecology-related topic of the CLIL lessons

2.3 Their civic responsibility competences were developed as the problems discussed are internationally significant

Beside focusing on language skills development and the rise of ecological concern, students’ and teachers’ cultural awareness was also improved. Students and teachers from the participating countries were able to attend different lessons, beside CLIL lessons planned. In this way they increased their knowledge about educational system of another European country and developed their sense of European citizenship.

Moreover, the mobility had huge impact on cultural awareness. There was no denying that getting in touch with another culture and being in a foreign country led to development of students and teachers cultural competences and made them more interested and tolerant toward other cultures.

Furthermore, participating teachers also improved their teaching competences. Sharing their teaching experience improved their professional knowledge related to the lesson planning, lesson activities design and using CLIL lessons in class

The students involved in the activity have A2 level of English in order to be able to communicate while implementing their team activities. They were tolerant and have taken part in some of the previous project activities. As a result, these students were able to contribute to the Learning Teaching Training Activity as they brought the skills and knowledge acquired during the implementation of previous project-related activities.

The teachers involved in the activity have at least B1 level of English as well as in-depth knowledge related to ecology and environmental science. All of them had previous experience on project work as well as experience in CLIL lessons design