The CLIL project work course is addressed to English teachers or staff at pre-school level who would like to delve deeper into CLIL and how to implement English learning with young learners through project work, where both content and language are worked integratedly. Pre-school children are naturally curious about the world around them and exposed to new concepts and content all the time. The teacher has just to exploit everyday activities in order to use their potential to promote subject and language integrated learning. Through theory and practical tasks, participants will acquire knowledge and skills in choosing curriculum content suitable for children of different ages, strategies and experiences to make integrated learning active and fun.
Target audience
Teachers of English – staff at pre-school and primary level ( 4-11 years old)
Tuition
22 hours – The course finishes at 13:00 on Friday so to allow people to return or cultural visits
Objectives
The main objectives of this program are to:
- know the key aspects and elements of the CLIL methodological approach
- know the different stages of project work
- know practical ideas on activities and tasks for different CLIL projects at pre-primary and primary level
- know different scaffolding techniques can be used to help children acquire both content and the second language
- become familiar with materials and resources for CLIL project work
- create and develop some CLIL activities, tasks and resources for different project examples.
- create some mini-CLIL projects in a collaborative way
- to know elements of Synthetic Phonics
Methodology
The program of the course is designed interactively, along with discussions and team work. The participants will be actively involved in very brief masterclasses on the theoretical aspects, hands-on activities, cooperative work, application of theoretical concepts into the development of CLIL projects on different topics.
Content
- CLIL principles, Do’s and Don’ts, practical activities on CLIL.
- Project Work: principles, stages, examples, practical activities on project work. How to start project work from storybooks and outdoor project work.
- Worked examples of CLIL projects at Pre-Primary and Primary Education. Hands-on work in cooperative groups on activities, tasks and resources for project work.
- How to write and develop a full project work: worked examples around different topics (natural and human built environment, plants, bees, animals)
- Development of full project works that attendants can put into practice with their classes linked to everyday topics and outdoor education. Activities, tasks and experiments from the areas of Maths, Science and Art will also be presented, as part of the CLIL projects.
- Activities to introduce Synthetic Phonics to students to facilitate speaking and writing
Participants
Minimum number: 8 – Max number: 20
Language
English
Dates
27-31 JULY 2026
COURSE VENUE: CP PARQUE INFANTIL – C.PEDRO CARAVIA, 7- 33012 OVIEDO – SPAIN
COURSE PROVIDER OID E10387790 “PARQUEIN”
Cost
450 €
including: tuition fee, cultural visit, learning materials, organizational costs
Info and registration
Write to infosmartedu4all@gmail.com to get info.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/PwNEFVdcJQdfHffW7
TRAINER. Angela Alvarez-Cofiño Martínez
– Diploma with Honours, Teaching Training in English at the Teaching Training School of the University of Oviedo. – PhD, English Studies and Doctoral Courses at the English Philology Faculty of the University of Oviedo. Dissertation: CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) for the teaching of English as a Second Language. – PhD in English Studies (University of Oviedo) with a doctoral thesis on the implementation of CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) for the teaching of English as a Second Language. Grade: Honours Cum Laude – National Award to Educative Innovation 2003, Ministry of Education, for the project “Teaching of English at very early ages at Infant Stage in rural schools”. – European Label Award to Innovation in the Teaching of Languages 2004, for the project “Teaching of English at very early ages at Infant Stage in rural schools”. – European Label Award to Innovation in the Teaching of Languages 2005, for the project “Content Learning Through Projects”. – Regional Award “Accion Magistral 2006”, for the project “Content and Language Integrated Learning through collaborative projects”. – My work was mentioned as an example of Good Practice in Educative Quality and Consistency criteria in the European Commission working paper European Strategic Framework for Education and Training (ET 2020) LANGUAGE LEARNING AT PRE-PRIMARY SCHOOL LEVEL: MAKING IT EFFICIENT AND SUSTAINABLE. A POLICY HANDBOOK, SEC (2011) 928,
(p. 11, link http://ec.europa.eu/languages/policy/language-policy/documents/ellp-handbook_en.pdf#Equity_Spain). Brussels, 7 July 2011.
– From 2003 to 2022, she has been working as a Literacy and Arts teacher at Ventanielles Bilingual State School (Oviedo, Asturias, Spain) in the integrated curriculum project (agreement Spanish Ministry of Education- British Council). – Since 2017, professor at the Faculty of Languages and Education of the University Nebrija (Madrid, Spain). Currently, member of the research group of the University Nebrija on Synthetic Phonics at Early Childhood Education in non-native contexts. – Member of the International Experts Panel on Synthetic Phonics, being the one an only Spanish member in it, together with professors with the Universities of Ealing and Oxford (2017/2018). -Member of the Executive Panel of the international ELLMEnet for the teaching of languages at Early Years, since 2022, etc.