Date: 9-10 October 2024
Venue: Lycée Georges Frêche, Montpellier, France
Local organiser: Cyril Dowling, Education inspector, Regional Educational Inspector
ECML experts: Kevin Schuck (Netherlands) and Frédéric Taveau (Switzerland)
Participants: 50 regional inspectors (each overseeing approximately 500 teachers), school directors (between 500 and 2,000 students), primary school inspectors, primary school advisors, education advisors for primary schools, teacher trainers
On 9 and 10 October, 50 staff members (management staff and inspectors at primary and secondary level education), pedagogical advisors and teacher trainers, gathered at @Lycée Hotelier George Frêche for a seminar organised in cooperation with the @European Centre for Modern Languages @Council of Europe. This event was opened by Mr. Thierry Duclerc, Director of Pedagogy at the Académie de Montpellier, and Mrs. Valérie Lacor, Inspector General of Education, Sports, and Research.
OBJECTIVE: To explore the benefits of CLIL / non-language subject practices (integrating modern foreign and regional languages into subject areas) in relation to the 4 pillars of the Montpellier Academy project.
Pillar 1: Shared values. Develop students' intercultural skills and strengthen their identity as European citizens.
Pillar 2: Successful students. Teachers' consideration of the linguistic dimension in each subject contributes to strengthening students' transversal skills and language proficiency.
Pillar 3: Ambitious partners. Through the development of CLIL/non-language subject pathways, European links are established, and an international dimension can be brought to school/ business partnerships.
Pillar 4: Committed men and women. Develop teachers' international skills in all disciplines within their own master’s programmes, contributing to their personal growth and mobility.
In addition to theoretical contributions, the academy’s staff and trainers engaged in a series of immersive activities in English and Swiss German, putting themselves in the shoes of students and teachers! They created, over the two days, an academic group that shares the culture and principles of CLIL/ non-language subject teaching and pluriliteracies.
The Académie de Montpellier includes: 22 international sections and 7 BFI (baccalauréat Français international), 4 ABIBAC (French-German high school diploma), 7 BACHIBAC (French and Spanish high school diploma), 140 European sections, 29 CLIL pathways in primary education, 39 bilingual CATALAN pathways, and 33 bilingual OCCITAN pathways.
Thanks to the European experts, professors @Kevin Schuck and @Frédéric Taveau for their theoretical contributions and the immersive workshops offered. Thanks to @Reseau Canopé eTwinning for its participation.
@European Centre for Modern Languages
Académie de Montpellier – Cyril Dowling