Erasmus+ Coruse

Course Overview

This course offers a comprehensive and practical introduction to the CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) approach, empowering educators to simultaneously teach subject content and language skills in an engaging and effective way.

Through hands-on activities, real-life examples, and collaborative planning, participants will explore the principles of CLIL, learn how to structure and scaffold lessons, and discover how to adapt the method to both primary and secondary school settings. The course also addresses modern tools like ICT and AI to support lesson planning, along with assessment strategies tailored for CLIL contexts.

Whether you’re new to CLIL or looking to strengthen your approach, this course will provide the confidence and resources to implement it successfully in your classroom.

Target Audience

This course is ideal for:

• Language teachers and subject teachers working in bilingual, multilingual, or CLIL-oriented settings.
• Educators interested in integrating language development into their subject teaching.
• School leaders aiming to introduce or support CLIL implementation across their institutions.

Requirements

Participants should have basic teaching experience and a desire to enhance student engagement through language-rich instruction. No prior experience in CLIL is necessary—this course is suitable for both beginners and those seeking to deepen their understanding.

Flexible Approach

Modules can be adapted to suit various teaching levels, subjects, and linguistic contexts. Activities and planning tasks are customizable to participants' classroom realities.

Course Methodology

Theory meets practice: Short input sessions followed by practical workshops.

Collaborative Learning: Peer discussions, group work, and shared lesson planning.

Hands-On Application: Participants create, adapt, and evaluate CLIL materials.

Reflective Practice: Ongoing opportunities for self-assessment and planning for real-world application.

Digital Integration: Use of ICT and AI to enhance lesson design and delivery.

Modules

Module 01 – Introduction to CLIL Methodology

• Understand the core principles of CLIL and how it differs from traditional teaching.
• Explore how integrating language and content supports student development.

Module 02 – Benefits and Risks of CLIL

• Evaluate the advantages of CLIL for cognitive, linguistic, and subject learning.
• Identify potential challenges and explore strategies to mitigate them.

Module 03 – CLIL Activities across the Primary School Curriculum

• Discover engaging, age-appropriate CLIL activities for younger learners.
• Learn how to adapt subject content to support language acquisition at primary level.

Module 04 – CLIL in Secondary Schools

• Explore approaches for implementing CLIL in more content-heavy, academic subjects.
• Address differentiation, academic language, and student motivation.

Module 05 – CLIL Lesson Structure

• Learn the essential components of a well-structured CLIL lesson.
• Understand how to sequence tasks to support both content and language goals.

Module 06 – How to Prepare a Good CLIL Lesson

• Develop strategies for selecting appropriate materials, setting objectives, and integrating skills.
• Use backward design to ensure purposeful planning.

Module 07 – Scaffolding Strategies

• Explore techniques to support student comprehension and language production.
• Learn how to gradually reduce support and build learner independence.

Module 08 – Teaching Methods and Techniques Suitable for CLIL

• Examine active learning methods such as task-based learning, project work, and inquiry-based approaches.
• Match methods to different learner profiles and subjects.

Module 09 – ICT Tools in CLIL

• Discover digital resources that support both content delivery and language development.
• Learn how to create interactive materials and promote collaboration through tech.

Module 10 – AI for Planning CLIL Lessons and Projects

• Explore how artificial intelligence can streamline lesson planning and content adaptation.
• Learn to critically evaluate and use AI tools responsibly in education.

Module 11 – Assessment in CLIL

• Understand assessment types appropriate for CLIL (formative, summative, and diagnostic).
• Learn to assess both content knowledge and language progress effectively.

Module 12 – General Recommendation on CLIL Implementation

• Gather practical tips for introducing and sustaining CLIL in your school.
• Reflect on institutional support, teacher collaboration, and long-term planning.

Course Duration

This is a 25-hour training program, typically delivered over five days (or adapted to suit the participants’ schedule), combining interactive input sessions with hands-on lesson design and peer collaboration.

Learning outcomes

• Develop practical classroom skills to teach CLIL, show effective techniques when teaching learners’ whose mother tongue is not the medium of instruction, promote teaching content in cross-curricular platform.
• Gain techniques for working in linguistically heterogeneous classrooms with regards to inclusive approach, promote intercultural awareness.
• Generate ready‐to‐use materials and ideas, discover the process of CLIL implementation into schools, enhance good quality of mainstream education.
• Improve competencies in using ICT in CLIL lessons, develop digital skills and media literacy, promote open educational resources and open learning environment.
• Apply CLIL method, encourage student’s critical and creative thinking, employ authentic communication and solving real-world tasks; foster innovative, student-centred pedagogies.
• Enrich communication skills, improve foreign language competencies, broaden professional vocabulary, promote EU’s broad linguistic diversity.
• Revise and develop personal and professional competences, build confidence in using CLIL methods in classrooms and teaching through a foreign language.
• Meet colleagues of different nationalities within the EU, engage in cross-cultural learning experience, exchange ideas and build a network for future international cooperation.
• Gain broader understanding of practices, policies and systems of education of different countries, cultivate mutual respect, intercultural awareness and embed common educational and training values.

General Course Information

Before the course:

You would be required to fill a Questionnaire.
You will receive “ITC Guide Document” where you will find all necessary information.

After the Course:

Course evaluation form
Certificates
Course materials in electronical form / Other materials for self-study and dissemination of the techniques.