Training Needs Analysis

Teachers-Participants were engaged in the following preparatory activities:

- a 1-week  English Language/C.L.I. L. refresher workshop to  be accomplished before the start of teachers' mobility (10 hours).   The main task was  to  analyse and detect the crucial needs of every C.L.I.L. practice in every Subject. Coordinated by the English Language Teacher (C2-Proficiency Cambridge) and with the aim of  acquiring and sharing a more complete knowledge and awareness on the C.L.I.L. crucial points, phases and peculiar needs, the workshop was also meant to create a sort of basic and common background of needs and expectations  necessary for successful Training and Teaching actions. 

In addition, within the framework of the objectives of the Erasmus Plus Project 2016-1-IT02-KA101-023229,  teachers and their Cambridge IGCSE students were deeply surveyed through some specifically devised Questionnaires.   

Teachers' Questionnaire: they were asked to supply information about their academic and professional backgrounds, classroom resources, and the instructional materials and activities used to teach in the Cambridge IGCSE Curriculum and thus promote the development of students’ skills and strategies. Their  responses were really important to detect their teaching/learning  needs and expectations, and were a vital part of the learning/training process.  

Students' Questionnaire: they were questioned about their daily study habits, their apparent needs, their goals and interests, Cambridge grading, Cambridge IGCSE teaching quality,  Study Abroad Programmes and, in general, about  the main difficulties they have to cope with when attending an English Language Course of studies. 
The results of the students' survey are here.
After profiling Teachers and analysing their training needs, in close connection to their students' ones, the resulting set of information was sent to the Stafford House London, the Language Centre where the English Language training would take place, so that they could plan the appropriate range of language activities and practices.