Participants may apply from the following countries:

Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Malta.

To know more about the project visit the dedicated website.

Working languages of the workshop:
 English and German, with simultaneous interpretation.

Profile requirements:

• Foreign language teachers and
• teachers of social and natural sciences, all working in CLIL contexts at secondary school;
• teacher trainers involved in secondary school CLIL teacher training.

Experience, competences required

• Experience in teaching in CLIL programmes through the medium of French, German, English or Spanish;
• high competence in English (lingua franca) and/or German;
• critical awareness and reflective abilities;
• team working skills and willingness to use own professional networks to disseminate outcomes.

Expected involvement:

Before the meeting:

• reflect on the role of language and literacy in the content subjects;
• should take self-evaluation questionnaire;
• be aware of own approach to literacy development in CLIL through very small scale trialing of some materials to trigger reflection;
• read the article on pluriliteracies provided by the team;
• look at our preliminary guide and provide feedback and a translation of key terms in their L1.

During the meeting:

• analyse sample teaching materials;
• micro-teaching sessions using these materials;
• evaluate the approach taken in these materials.
  
  

After the meeting:

• fill in evaluation questionnaire;
• create a professional learning network of those wishing to experiment further with the new teaching approach and materials by including it into their teaching / teacher training practice.

Interested applicants should contact the ECML National Nominating Authorities in their country by 4 May 2015.