GARATU: GRANTS FOR TEACHERS IN THE TRILINGUAL PROJECT

  Yesterday the new call for GARATU courses 2011-2012 was published on www.hezkuntza.net (BOPV 09/05/2011). There are many English courses, but some of them are specially addressed to teachers from schools involved in the Trilingual project (teachers from experimental groups and other teachers at school). Read the call carefully because it seems that teachers from private schools cannot apply for courses abroad. Deadline: May 20

1.- full GARATU offer and call: Spanish - Basque
2.-GARATU for MET teachers

Interactive 3D model of Solar System and night sky

An interesting Website for those teaching Science in English. 

http://www.solarsystemscope.com/# 

(Excerpt from the website)

Solar System Scope is Flash based 3D model of Planets of Solar System and the Night Sky.

The Model consists of 3 main Views (Heliocentric, Geocentric and Panaromatic), including:
• Precise Positions of all Celestial Objects according to NASA Calculations
• Schematic Distances and Sizes for better understanding of Planet Surfaces and Motions
• a unique feature to Drag Planets through their Orbits
• a lot of interesting Settings which allow you to Observe particular Motions and Events
• Distance Calculator to measure distances between Planets even while in motion
• Earth Observatory set-up with which you can watch Celestial Happenings on your own Night Sky
  Astronomy for Everybody.

Kids play with Planets while Discovering Universe. Our youngest regular visitors are only 7-8 years old. Many Teachers use our model as a practical Source of Education and with SSS they are able to show and simply explain happenings in our Solar System.

Planning next year advisory and training system at the berritzegune of Leioa

Working on listening strategies

Here you are a couple of videos that can give you some tips on listening strategies.
The first one talks about strategies such as paying attention to body language, words or tone used by the speaker. Can you think of a way of integrating these strategies in your listening activities?


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The second video is about  a Year 9 class at School B discussing the elements of good listening, using modelling, pupil discussion, exploratory talk and practice.

Video: Developing listening skills using modelling and practice

Getting teachers collaborating for the integration of language and subject

During our last meeting we dealt with listening strategies and we  did an activity based on a recording from www.factworld.info, regarding the collaboration among subject and language teachers. We tried to "kill two birds with one stone" as both topics are very significant for tthose involved in this project. You can listen to the whole recording by addressing to the the section "Café CLIL " at www.factworld.org or by clicking on the icon below

Call for 2nd year of Trilingual project

Remember that the deadline to apply for next  schoolyear Trilingual Project is next Friday, April 15th. Even those schools implementing the project during 2010-2011 will have to hand in the papers requested in the call. We will talk about this issue at the meeting tomorrow, but just in case, you can have a look at the call here (Basque) or here (Spanish).

Our next seminar session: April 12th

Before  taking a well deserved holiday, we are going to have our 6th seminar meeting at the Berritzegune of Leioa next Tuesday, April 12th. And this is our proposal  for this session:

1. CALL FOR 11-12 SCHOOLYEAR                                 
1. Aims, difficulties, questions…….
2. Table 

2. RICHARD BRADLEY      www.kindleaflame.com
1. Assesment of the session

3. DEVELOPING 5 SKILLS :writing
1. CHECKLISTS MODELS FOR WRITING

                                                              i.      Models for task planning

                                                            ii.      Models for language

2. RUBRICS FOR WRITING: Making our own

                                                              i.      What is a rubric

                                                            ii.      How to write a rubric

                                                          iii.      Some models

                                                          iv.      Resources:  Genre

4. DEVELOPING A LEARNING SEQUENCE: Presentation