2nd Teacher training week: European Professionalism and Multilinguism in Portugal

  • The second teacher training week (TTW) is in Portugal in Portalegre. The theme of this second week: Professionalism and multilingualism. The materials used for this week can be found under the schedule.

    The schedule: 

    Monday November 6th

    17.00 (Paul, Jasper, Antonio) Welcome and first session

                    Getting to know each other, introducing steering group members

                    Presentation of the goals of the IMPACT project

    Ppt presentations of schools already in the project (presenting their progress on education, internationalisation and mini-projects)

    Video presentations of all new schools

    20.00 Welcoming dinner

     

    Tuesday November 7th

    9.00   Keynote 1: Multilingualism: Mary Ashton - Content and Language Integrated Learning

    Centro de Linguas e Culturas – Escola Superior de Educação de Portalegre

    10.00 Coffeebreak

    10.15 Developing international policy in school (Jasper)

                    Using internationalisation scale (Translated and sent to every steering group member (SGM))

                    PDCA model, long & short term goals and actions

    11.45 Twinspace presentation (Luke)

                    Using Twinspace during the IMPACT project

    13.00 Lunch – Instituto Canteen

    14.00 Mini-projects, guided by all SGM (Jasper, Paul)

                    Start with setting up the mini-projects between classes

                    Finding partners of different countries

                    Note: In theme of TTW (Multilingualism & Professionalism)

    16.00 Summary of the day (Paul, Antonio, Jasper)

                    Short presentation of the start of the mini-project

                    Questions, answers, feedback of the group

    16.30 Exploring cultural heritage (Antonio)

    20.00 Dinner

     

    Wednesday November 8th

    8.30   Bus departure for Primary school visit (Antonio)

    School:  José Régio School

    11.30 Literature session (Savas)

                    Read and discuss provided articles in small groups

                    Outcome upload on Twinspace

    12.50 Bus departure for lunch at school for Tourism

    14.00 Mini-projects                                                                                     

                    Continue developing your project

    16.00 Summary of the day (Paul, Anabel, Jasper)

                    Short presentation of the start of the mini-project

                    Questions, answers, feedback of the group

    16.30 Individual/free evening program

     

    Thursday May 9th

    9.00   Key-note 2: Professionalism

    Luis Guerra

    Teaching and Learning English as an International Language in Portugal: Policy, Practice and Perceptions

    From Departamento de Linguística e Literatura – Universidade de Évora

    10.00 Coffeebreak

    10.15 Social media (Antonio, Luke)

    Presenting Facebook page of IMPACT and social media

    10.45 Improving education (Jasper)

                    Set up plans for improving education

                    With help of weak and strong points

                    Based on film presentations (good practices) of Monday

    Inspired by the people (good ideas) you have met

    12.15 Finishing mini-projects                                                                   

    13.00 Lunch – At Institute canteen

    14.00 Finishing mini-projects

     17.00 - Visiting other sections of the school

    20.00 Farewel dinner:  Tarro Restaurant

     

    Friday November 10th

    10.00 Welcoming word for the last day 

    Preparing the presentation for the project

    11.00 Presentations (Jasper)

    1. Mini projects (per mixed group)
    2. Next step internationalisation policy (per school)
    3. Plan for improving education (per school)

     13.00 Evaluation (Anabel, Paul)

                    Making arrangements

                    Declarations

                    Certificates

    Departure

     

    Materials:

    This presentation was shown to the teachers to show the pilars of the projects. This presentation is the guideline troughout the whole week. This project was presented to us by Jasper. He showed the teachers what the pillars are for the project. This presentation is similar to the presentation in Sabadell because he has the same vision with some slight changes like the theme of the week: Professionalism and Multilingualism.

     

    This presentation was given by Mary Ashton. Mary Ashton gave a keynote about CLIL, Content and Langue Intergrated Learning. CLIL is teaching a second langues intergrated with other school subjects chosen by the teacher, so the pupils are gaining a second language. She showed the teachers how they could use CLIL in their own classrooms, to increase multilingualism, by doing an assignment with the teachers. See the pictures below. 

     

     

    In this week Savas gave a presentation about Multilingualism and Professionalism. He built his presentation with different kinds of literature. This literature can be used to build up your own mini-project. After the presentation Savas gave the teachers a assignment on which they had to work to understand the importance of Multilingualism and Professionalism. You can find the literature in the literature folder on the page of materials