Local organiser: Anastasia Panagiotidou, Directorate of Secondary Education of Evros

ECML experts: Catherine Carré-Karlinger (Austria), Katja Schnitzer (Germany)

Participants: 32 (foreign language teachers, teachers of the language of schooling, principals of school units, school advisers, regional education quality supervisor)

The Secondary Education Directorate of Evros, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs and Sports and the European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML) of the Council of Europe, successfully organised the two-day training workshop entitled Supporting Multilingual Classrooms, which took place on 17 and 18 October 2024 in Alexandroupolis, Greece.

Thirty-two selected educators (teachers, principals of school units and school advisers) in primary and secondary education took part in the workshop. The impressive level of participation demonstrated the need for ongoing training in this area and the desire of educators to enhance their multilingual and intercultural skills.

The event also involved representatives from the religious, military, and political spheres. Attending online from the Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs and Sports, the Deputy Minister of Education, Mrs. Zeta Makri, and Mr. Panagiotis Passas, the Head of the General Directorate for International and European Affairs, Education for Hellenic Diaspora and Intercultural Education welcomed the participants.

The moderators of the European Centre for Modern Languages, Catherine Carré-Karlinger and Katja Schnitzer, provided the participants with a rich and focused programme, aiming to help them:

• improve their language teaching
• develop multilingual and intercultural skills
• address the diversity of the student population
• create collaborative networks

The workshop provided an excellent opportunity for teachers to renew their knowledge and exchange useful experiences.

Anastasia Panagiotidou, local coordinator, 29 October 2024

ECML project website: RELANG, ECML-EC cooperation agreement 2024 "Innovative methodologies and assessment in language learning"

Link to TV broadcast on the Greek local news (with subtitles in EN)

Local organiser: Fauve Van den Berghe and Wouter Cambré, Department of Education & Training, Ministry of Education, Government of Flanders

ECML experts: Rita Jukneviciene, Lithuania; Jana Beresova, Slovak Republic

Participants: 37 (language testers and examiners, item writers, teachers and teacher trainers, curriculum developers)

On October 16 and 17, 2024, an enthusiastic group of teachers, pedagogical supervisors, test developers and teacher educators participated in the inspiring two-day workshop “Relating language curricula, tests and examinations to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (RELANG)” of the European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML). Participants were introduced to the principles of valid and reliable language testing based on the CEFR. In the workshop, they learned about the construction of different item types, the stages of test development and test-taking, the collection and analysis of test data and also about ways to link tests and exams to (the levels in) the CEFR.

You can find more information on the theme RELANG here, as well as a number of interesting ECML materials. Subscribe to ECML’s European Language Gazette for interesting facts and activities on language teaching.

Fauve Van den Berghe and Wouter Cambré, local coordinators, 29 October 2024

ECML project website: RELANG, ECML-EC cooperation agreement 2024 "Innovative methodologies and assessment in language learning"

Twenty-one teachers of English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian (some of them, also, teacher trainers, curriculum authors, professional development advisor) in primary and secondary schools from throughout the country participated in the two-day workshop Using ICT in support of language teaching and learning, organized by the Bureau for Education Services and European Centre for Modern Languages.

The training was facilitated by Ursula Stickler, Jackie Robbins and Sarah Heiser, members of ICT REV team. In preparation for the workshop the participants filled in an online questionnaire and completed some tasks on a Moodle workspace.

The facilitators introduced participants to various online tools, platforms and materials they can use in their everyday work in classroom, such as Padlet, Moodle, Clasroomscreen, Mentimeter, Clickchamp, Audacity, Makebelief, Genially, Pixabey. The participants had plenty of opportunities to discuss and share their experiences of working with these tools and apps.

The participants worked together on creating new teaching activities which they recorded and uploaded on the Padlet as “Tools I had used”.

At the end of the workshop both the trainers and the participants presented their best materials they had recorded before the workshop while contemplating possibility of introducing newly acquired tools.

The training showed that most of the participants are already active users of various tools and apps for use of ICT in teaching and learning modern languages. So the overall tone of the training was motivating and fertile as a result of both inspiring and enthusiastic support of the trainers and dedicated i motivated work of the participants.

Montenegrin version:

21 nastavnice engleskog, italijanskog, njemačkog, španskog, rusko (a neke od njih, istovremeno, treneri, autorke programa, savjetnica za profesionalni razvoj) u osnovnim I srednjim školama širom zemlje učestvovale su u dvodnevnoj obuci za Upotrebu IKT u nastavi i učenju stranih jezika, koju su organizovali Zavod za školstvo i Evropski centar za moderne jezike.

Obuku su vodile Ursula Stickler, Jackie Robbins i Sarah Heiser, članice ICT REV tima. Kao pripremu za ovu obuku učesnice su ispunile online upitnik i odradile zadatke na Moodle platformi.

Voditeljke obuke su upoznale učesnice sa različtim online alatima, platformama i materijalima koje mogu koristiti u svakodnevnom radu u učionici, npr. Padlet, Moodle, Clasroomscreen, Mentimeter, Clickchamp, Audacity, Makebelief, Genially, Pixabey. Učesnice su imale priliku da diskutuju i podijele svoja iskustva u radu sa ovim alatima i aplikacijama. 

Učesnice su zajedno radile na izradi novih nastavnih aktivnosti koje su snimile i postavile na Padlet kao “Alati koje sam koristila”.

Obuka je pokazala da većina učesnica već aktivno koristi razne alate i aplikacije za korišćenje IKT u nastavi/učenju stranih jezika. Tako je opšta atmosfera obuke bila motivišuća i plodna kao rezultat, s jedne strane, inspirativne podrške i entuzijazma voditeljki obuke, a s druge, posvećenog i motivisanog rada učesnica.

Jasmina Djordjevic, local coordinator

The Directorate-General for Education (DGE) of the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation (MECI) organized a workshop entitled Using Information and Communication Technology in support of language teaching and learning (ICT-REV) on the 10th and 11th of October 2024 at Padre António Vieira Secondary School in Lisbon.

This was an international training activity, resulting from a partnership between the Council of Europe's European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML) and the European Commission, aimed at developing a joint action called Innovative Methodologies and Assessment in Language Learning.

In this initiative, which is of great importance for the national context of primary and secondary education, participants, professionals involved in language teaching, had the opportunity to deepen their scientific and technological literacy in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

The teachers replicate their knowledge in the short term, contributing to the promotion of innovative pedagogical practices, which will provide more dynamic and varied first language/second language/foreign language classes, aligned with the needs and competencies of students in an increasingly demanding digital context.

Portugal, represented by the DGE/MECI, is, for the sixth year, one of the European countries conducting training workshops promoted by the CELV.

Portuguese version:

A Direção-Geral da Educação (DGE), do Ministério da Educação, Ciência e Inovação (MECI), promoveu, nos dias 10 e 11 de outubro de 2024, na Escola Secundária Padre António Vieira, em Lisboa, a realização de um workshop intitulado Using Information and communication Technology in support of language teaching and learning (ICT-REV).

Tratou-se de uma atividade de formação internacional, resultante de uma parceria entre o Centro Europeu de Línguas Vivas (CELV), do Conselho da Europa, e a Comissão Europeia, com o objetivo de desenvolver uma ação conjunta denominada Innovative Methodologies and Assessment in Language Learning.

Nesta iniciativa, de grande importância para o contexto nacional dos ensinos básico e secundário, os participantes, profissionais ligados ao ensino das línguas, tiveram oportunidade de aprofundar a sua literacia científica e tecnológica em Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TIC).

Os docentes replicarão, a curto prazo, o seu conhecimento, contribuindo para a promoção de práticas pedagógicas inovadoras, que propiciarão aulas de língua materna/não materna/estrangeira mais dinâmicas e variadas, alinhadas com as necessidades e competências dos alunos, num contexto digital cada vez mais exigente.

Portugal, representado pela DGE/MECI, é, pelo sexto ano, um dos países europeus que realizam oficinas de formação promovidas pelo CELV.

Ana Filipa Morais, local coordinator

ECML training and consultancy "Approach to teaching for deeper CLIL and beyond – A pluriliteracies learning": hybrid workshop (11-12 October 2024, Podgorica, Montenegro)
Venue: Bureau of Educational Services in Podgorica
Local organiser: Jasmina Djordjevic, Bureau for Educational Services of Montenegro
ECML experts: Letizia Cinganotto (Italy) and Susanne Staschen-Dielmann (Germany)
Participants: 22 teachers of all subjects in elementary and secondary schools, advisor from the Bureau for Education

On 11-12 October 2024. the Bureau for Education Services, with the expert support of the European Centre for Modern Languages, organised a hybrid workshop Approach to Teaching for Deeper CLIL and Beyond – A Pluriliteracies Learning.

Class and subject teachers from elementary and secondary schools that are implementing bilingual education programmes and an advisor from the Bureau for Education Services participated in the workshop. The participants had an opportunity for  training on the basics of integrated learning of content and language (CLIL) and deeper learning episodes which support the transfer of learning across language and subject, based on the pluriliteracies model.

The high standards set through technology and innovation strongly influence both curricula and teaching, so the approach from the pluriliteracies perspective for knowledge transfer provides teachers with a valuable skill for responding to the needs of contemporary school. 

The workshop was facilitated by ECML experts Letizia Cinganotto (Italy), in-person, and Susanne Staschen-Dielmann (Germany), on-line.

For more about European Centre for Modern Language of the Council of Europe: www.ecml.at/TrainingConsultancy/CLIL/tabid/1815/language/en-GB/Default.aspx.

Jasmina Đorđević

Montenegrin version 

Zavod za školstvo, uz ekspertsku podršku Evropskog instituta za moderne jezike Savjeta Evrope, organizovao je hibridnu obuku Approach to Teaching for Deeper CLIL and Beyond – A Pluriliteracies Learning 11. i 12. oktobara 2024. 

Obuku su pohađali nastavnici osnovnih i srednjih škola u kojima se organizuje dvojezična nastava i savjetnica Zavoda za školstvo. Nastavnici su imali priliku da prođu obuku iz osnova integrisanog učenja sadržaja i jezika i sveobuhvatnog planiranja časa, koja pruža podršku transferu učenja  između jezika i sadržaja, zasnovano na modelu multipismenosti. 

Tekući visoki standardi koje postavljaju tehnologija i inovacije snažno utiču na kurikulum i nastavu tako da pristup iz perspektive multipismenosti za transfer znanja pruža nastavnicima vrijednu vještinu kako bi odgovorili zahtjevima savremene škole.

Obuku su vodile ekspertkinje ECML-a Letizia Cinganotto, neposredno, i dr Susanne Stachen-Dielmna, on-line.

Više of Evropskom centru za moderne jezike Savjeta Evrope: www.ecml.at/TrainingConsultancy/CLIL/tabid/1815/language/en-GB/Default.aspx

Jasmina Đorđević

Date : 5 and 19 October 2024
Venue: Online, Świętokrzyskie In-Service Teacher Training Centre in Kielce, Poland
Local organiser: Ewa Witczyńska, Świętokrzyskie Centrum Doskonalenia Nauczycieli, Kielce
ECML experts: Eli Moe (Norway) and Jérôme Béliard (France)
Participants: 23 primary and secondary school teachers who teach their subjects in English; English teachers involved in bilingual education, teacher trainers involved in the bilingual education

The workshop “Language of schooling: Developing language awareness in subject classes” was a unique event for the Świętokrzyskie Region primary and secondary school teachers involved in bilingual teaching. The training, conducted by ECML experts – Eli Moe and Jérôme Béliard – was run in two online sessions on 5 and 19 October 2024.

The agenda of the training was perfectly adapted to the online mode of working. During the sessions, the experts provided  structured input on language and subject integration and on the language scaffolding techniques. They emphasised the importance of cooperation between the subject teachers and language teachers and showed ways of organising such cooperation in a school.

The experts created a friendly and stimulating atmosphere during the training, which encouraged the participants to actively express their opinions, discuss ideas and present their solutions. The participants worked individually and in groups and shared their findings. Materials provided by the trainers and developed during the training were made available  to all in an open access folder  and can be used for developing bilingual lesson plans in the future.

Thanks to the trainers’ expertise, the workshop deepened the participants' knowledge, provided a source of reflection and inspiration, and enhanced the search for effective bilingual teaching methods.

The trainings offered by ECML guarantee the highest quality – it is worth taking advantage of them!

Ewa Witczyńska

Polish version

Szkolenie ECJN w Świętokrzyskiem

Warsztaty “Language of schooling: Developing language awareness in subject classes” były wyjątkowym wydarzeniem dla świętokrzyskich nauczycieli szkół podstawowych i ponadpodstawowych zaangażowanych w nauczanie dwujęzyczne. Szkolenie, prowadzone przez ekspertów ECML - Eli Moe i Jérôme Béliarda - odbyło się w dwóch sesjach online w dniach 5.10.2024 i 19.10.2024.

Program szkolenia został doskonale dopasowany do trybu online. Podczas sesji eksperci przekazali usystematyzowane porcje wiedzy na temat integracji językowej i przedmiotowej oraz technik wspomagania językowego. Podkreślili znaczenie współpracy między nauczycielami przedmiotów i nauczycielami języków obcych oraz wskazali sposoby organizacji takiej współpracy w szkole.

Prowadzący stworzyli podczas szkolenia przyjazną i stymulującą atmosferę, dzięki czemu uczestnicy czuli się swobodnie wyrażając swoje opinie, dyskutując o pomysłach i prezentując swoje rozwiązania. Uczestnicy pracowali indywidualnie i w grupach oraz dzielili się swoimi spostrzeżeniami. Materiały dostarczone przez trenerów i opracowane podczas szkolenia były sukcesywnie umieszczane w pliku dostępnym dla wszystkich i mogą posłużyć do opracowania scenariuszy lekcji dwujęzycznych w przyszłości.

Dzięki doświadczeniu trenerów, warsztaty pogłębiły wiedzę uczestników, stały się źródłem refleksji i inspiracji oraz zachęciły do dalszych poszukiwań skutecznych metod nauczania dwujęzycznego.

Szkolenia oferowane przez ECML to gwarancja najwyższej jakości - warto z nich skorzystać!

Ewa Witczyńska