During the first two weeks of November, our colleagues from the IES Juan de la Cierva and Codorníu de Totana, the teacher of Mathematics Isabel Berenguel Soria and the professor of Geography and History, Cecilia Aznar Salas have been in Dublin doing a CLIL course (Content and Language Integrated Learning) (Applied Content and Foreign Language Learning, in Spanish) applied to Mathematics and Social Sciences respectively, to use this methodology in the classroom and to improve the communicative skills of our students in general, all within the framework of the Erasmus + Project "Tell me in a different way" that the center has been developing since last July.
During these two weeks they have received CLIL methodology classes, as well as reinforcement of vocabulary and culture in English for their use in the classroom and have made several guided tours of the area, along with other classmates of different nationalities.
The course schedule has been intense, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. each day, from Monday to Friday, divided into two parts: improving your level of English (9: 00-12: 20) and using the CLIL methodology in the classroom (14: 00-15: 30).
Back in Totana, we have developed a seminar so that what they have learned they can share with the other teachers at the center and the truth is that it has been very interesting and instructive, providing teaching strategies and resources to the teaching staff.
The activity is part of the actions that will be developed throughout the year on the occasion of the Erasmus + project "Tell me in a different way", among which are talks for parents, seminar for teachers, concerts and exhibitions, as well as the preparation of new teaching materials and review of educational processes developed by the center.
The next training experience will be in Nimes (France) at the Lycée Saint Vincent de Paul with our colleague José David González Sánchez from the Orientation department, who will tell us on his return how French teachers approach attention to diversity, the mobbing and bullying at its center, among many other aspects.
