Connemara

Connemara
Pollacappul Lough, Renvyle, Ireland

Friday 28 October 2016

Hello Folks!
Today is the last day in Dublin and we had the last lesson with Katie.

Each group presented their Project to the others. It was very useful to know how each of us intend to prepare their CLIL project. At the end we had our Certificate of Attendance. And here there are the proof... In every picture there is Katie, one of our fantastic Teachers.

Alina and Katie
Filomena
Anne
Chiara
Stefano
Alessandro
Maria
Carmelo
Daniele
Manu
Manolo
Cristine

A big Hug to everyone!
Carmelo

Thursday 27 October 2016

PBL: Project Based Learning
(katie)
  • using authentic, real-world project in the classroom
  • involves critical thinking collaboration and communication
  • students have to percive projects as personally meaningful
  • deepens knowledge and builds skills for the future
- Watching a video PBL (no)
- We worked in small group e discuss the five keys
- watched slide 5: Essential Project Design Elements. See document (EPDE)
- slide 6: Methods of assessment)
- slide 7: Some benefits of performance based assessment
- slide 8: Resources... (Reflection Questions, Group Contact ...)
- slide 9: Some Project Ideas

Working in Group had had a worksheet about EPDE

II part of the lesson

- Katie gave us this document: Developing the writing skills
- What type of activities could be included in the stages of the writing process?
     - in our group: writing frames
     - linking word
     - pattern (in ICT world)

Today groups:


Wednesday 26 October 2016

Goooooooood Morinig People.....!!!!! How are you? Today we have Rachel! The Session begin with a slide named "Film in the CLIL Classroom"

Overview Of The Session
Discussion on your experience/views.
  • Overview of activities to use with film
  • Ready activities
  • Reflection on session
 Links and lesson plans (Resources CLIL)
Rachel

Rachel

Happy Birthday to you Katie... 


Great Group


Tuesday 25 October 2016

Good Morning Folks!!! (today we are with Katie) In this session we will…
Explore Bloom’s Revised Digital Taxonomy.
The main goal is: Use of sites and tools to exploit Bloom’s Revised Digital Taxonomy.
We must complete at least one of the following with our group / partner…
  • a video using Kizoa
  • a questionnaire or quiz using Google Forms
  • an infographic using easely
  • a rubric
We have choused to build a video lesson about IT about analizing an solving a problem using a program language.
And after the school... some photos:


Monday 24 October 2016

Hello my friends. Let start the new today's lesson with Liliane.

Using Reading Texts in CLIL-Interacting Language Skills 2

A. Discussion
B. Lesson 1 (Song)
C. Lesson 2 - Podcast
D. Lesson 3 - Song II

Can wildlife adapt to climate change? - Erin Eastwood

this is the link of today lesson

Saturday 22 October 2016

Connemara Travel


This weekend: Saturday 22 and Sunday 23, I and my colleagues Alessandro and Stefano, we visited one of the most beautiful lands in the world, took a lot of photos, taken up splendid landscapes, tasting local produce and enjoyed the spectacle from nature. The map below describes the route taken, including a night in a bed and breakfast.


















Friday 21 October 2016

Today lesson: Using Reading Texts in CLIL-Interacting Language Skills (with Liliane, the new teacher)

She shows us some pictures and discuss about: where, what and function

Argo: moschea

1. Agra India mausolium
2. truchia instambul museum
3. cambogia temple
4. Our university school in dublin

tells your classmates about 3 important buildings in your city

Second part of morning

Art 1. Music 2. Cinema 3. Photograf 4. Poetry 5. Painting The best art Art noy Artt? 1. what other art forms would you add to the list? 2. do you like art? 3. how many of these have you used in your teachingI If so, how and why? What are the benefit? 4. If not, would you like it? Why or why not

Wednesday 19 October 2016

Good morning to everybody.
Today lessons: By the end of this lesson we will have…
1. categorised activities according to Bloom’s Taxonomy.
2. focused on scaffolding activities.
3. created a CLIL lesson plan.
4. evaluated a CLIL lesson plan.

The 4Cs - There are four guiding principles upon which a CLIL programme can be built.
1. Content- progression in knowledge and skills
2. Communication - interaction, language used to learn
3. Cognition - engagement: thinking and understanding
4. Culture - self and other awareness / citizenship



Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy
1. original taxonomy created in 1956.
2. promotion of higher forms of thinking in education such as analysing and evaluation.
3. move away from just remembering (rote learning).
4. often used when designing instruction or learning processes.
5. revised in the mid-nineties.

Bloom’s Taxonomy














Tuesday 18 October 2016

Dublin is a compact city but has a wealth of attractions for people visiting or those who already live here. There’s a book (of Kells), a zoo, gardens, cathedrals, a gaol, a brew house, a castle and plenty more. Suppose we better start listing them out so:

Today is time of Theory an Metodology of language learning. Discusssion on our language learning and teaching... A methodology is a system for teaching of a language that is based on a particular theory of learning. These theories underpin choices of syllabus type, materials and classroom activities.

In the second part of the lesson, we had learned something about: KWL (what I Know, what I Want and then what I Learned) and Katie give us a sheet where we wrote down our experiences and what we aspetc from this course

Monday 17 October 2016

Good morning to all of you. The first lesson of today is an introduction to CLIL. Our young teacher is Katie Greig, very gracious and prepared, his way of speaking is very smooth and fast but quite understandable. After introducing herself, she projected on the IWB, the course slides.  
Link to slides 

Good morning Ireland

Finally we are in Dublin.