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CLIL at the PHTPädagogische Hochschule Tirol

• Study Visit
• CLIL Skills to support Teacher and Trainer
  Mobility
• Mag. Melanie Steiner
• melanie.steiner_at_ph-tirol.ac.at

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The Pädagogische Hochschule TirolPedagogical
University Tirol

• Located in Innsbruck, Austria
• The 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 pupils
• Interview 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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• Thank you for your attention!