European "Horizons"
The
main objectives of
"On The Horizon" Project have been, in the order:
After the staff training abroad, participants have actually improved their communicative, cultural and strategic skills, as it is witnessed by the Certificates of Achievements and Europasses Language Passports released by the Stafford House London, (located in Bloomsbury), the Language Centre in charge of their training, which is part of Stafford House School of English, a subsidiary company of Cambridge Education Group Limited, Registered in England 06020370. Registered Office: Kett House, Station Road, Cambridge, UK, CB1 2JH. © 2015 Cambridge Education Group Limited. All rights reserved.
Teachers have raised and reinforced their skills, which are indispensable to the international scope of a European Learning/Teaching context. Through the newly acquired competences/experiences/abilities, they have in fact planned and realized a series of C.L.I.L. methodological practices and international Syllabus Teaching activities to be used in the following school years, and to be subsequently shared with the other Subject Departments and Teachers of our Liceo.
- To
allow teachers to gain a more conscious and confident approach, effectively
communicative and successful, to the Learning/Teaching context.
- To
experience a full-immersion situation in which teachers are stimulated,
encouraged and helped to gain confidence and competence in the English
Language.
- To
enrich the educational community of our Liceo by enhancing and refining
teachers' preparation in managing International Syllabuses through a direct
involvement and successful committment.
- To
practice International Subject Syllabuses on a daily basis, together with
experienced specific mother tongue teachers, in a more natural and
collaborative atmosphere.
- To
set up an English Language specialized team of teachers, quite well
representative of the Educational mission, vision and profile of our Liceo, in
charge to properly and more effectively develop the new international dimension
of our Liceo.
- To
extend and transfer the newly acquired competences to every
Department/Subject/Teacher and, subsequently, to our Liceo as a whole
educational community.
- To
continue and improve the development of an increasingly strategic approach to
Internationally motivating and challenging educational contexts, more widely
participated and more efficaciously accomplished.
- To
perform more properly in International classes, mastering the English Language
in a more challenging Teaching situation, representing an increasingly credible
model for our students.
- To
encourage, develop, enhance and transfer our students' knowledge and competence
not only in the English Language, but, thanks to it, to every field of
knowledge, culture, action, allowing them to effectively acquire an
extremely valuable background of experience and practice that will
certainly facilitate their International and European inclusion at any level:
academic, social, professional, human.
- To
strenghten and broaden teaching skills, so that they can improve our students'
performances and enable them to widen their knowledge and competence.
- To
export and promote our 1-year project and related experiences to other schools,
teachers and classes, in our town, Italy or other countries.
- To
promote students' self-study as a life-long learning ability
in their future.
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| Stafford House, 2 Southampton Place, London WC1A 2DA, UK |
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| Carl Roberton - Principal |
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| Inga Frame - Student Services Manager |
After the staff training abroad, participants have actually improved their communicative, cultural and strategic skills, as it is witnessed by the Certificates of Achievements and Europasses Language Passports released by the Stafford House London, (located in Bloomsbury), the Language Centre in charge of their training, which is part of Stafford House School of English, a subsidiary company of Cambridge Education Group Limited, Registered in England 06020370. Registered Office: Kett House, Station Road, Cambridge, UK, CB1 2JH. © 2015 Cambridge Education Group Limited. All rights reserved.
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| Florence Coquery - Teacher |
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| Julian Francis - Director of Studies |
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| Susi Wright - Assistant Director of Studies |
Teachers have raised and reinforced their skills, which are indispensable to the international scope of a European Learning/Teaching context. Through the newly acquired competences/experiences/abilities, they have in fact planned and realized a series of C.L.I.L. methodological practices and international Syllabus Teaching activities to be used in the following school years, and to be subsequently shared with the other Subject Departments and Teachers of our Liceo.
This Project Blog has been actually
created as an online "handbook" with the aim of disseminating
our training mobility experience and to show the different key-actions to be
taken in order to realize a successful European Development Plan and
brilliant C.L.I.L. practices. Multimedia products for C.L.I.L. and
International Syllabuses are presented in different Subjects and are available
to anyone interested.
Conferences and workshops for
disseminating our Project results are being organized and held at our Liceo in
order to export the newly acquired teaching practice in C.L.I.L. Methodology
and International Syllabuses.
Furthermore, "On The
Horizon" has been intended to represent an effective action to a
kind of learning/teaching context that is the actual product of direct
experience, in charge of a series of responsibilities aimed at
consolidating and exporting values such as egalitarianism, democracy,
collaboration, social inclusion, and able to stimulate and encourage
students and teachers with the necessary confidence towards the challenge of
new C.L.I.L. curricula and syllabuses, making them more receptive and welcoming
to the new teaching methodologies and their cognitive and emotional
implications.
The targets of our dissemination are
certainly Middle and High schools of our territory, their staff and students.
Being accredited as Cambridge International School for the study of English by
Cambridge University, we are concerned with spreading our "Best
Practices" and experiences to other school communities.
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| CPE Teacher Mark Beasley at work London Stafford House - School of English |