CLILing with Art and (in) Nature

Education with a holistic perspective is concerned with the development of the students into lifelong learners and active citizens who will take personal and collective responsibility to support themselves and the “different others” to live with dignity and self-respect in any multicultural environment they will potentially live within an unpedictably evolving globalized ‘risk society’ (Giddens, 1990; Beck 1992). 

Education with a holistic perspective uses Art and Nature in an active ClILing mode to liberate students’ imagination and creativity and make teaching and learning a unique developmental experience (Perkins, 2006; Efland, 2002; Eisner,2002; Robinson, 2019).

Teachers are the social workers (Freire, 2006) who activate their students’ intelligences(Gardner, 2010)‘scaffolding’ them to reach their full potential (Vygotsky 1986, 1994) through acts of meaning ( Bruner, 1997) while cooperating to ‘CLIL’ their subjects.

This course aims at ‘scaffolding’ teachers to become able to designcross-curricular lesson plans and projects in order to build “holistic development” teaching and learning environments within their classes and their schools using Art and Nature as educational tools.

Class management:

  • Build a safe class environment to prevent bullying and encourage cooperative relationships among students.
  • Design CLIL lesson plans and projects using Art and Nature as educational tools.
  • Cultivate peer-tutoring, peer-observation and peer-review skills.
  • Cultivate Critical Thinking.
  • Cultivate key competences for Lifelong Learning.

School management:

  • Open their school to their local society and the world in a way most beneficial for their personal and professional development and their students’ holistic development.
  • Build a safe and productive school community designing cross-curricular activities, which empower relationships among its members (teachers-students – parents)

Course Language

  • English
  • Note: Participants must have at least a CEFR level B2 knowledge of English in order to be able to participate actively.

Target Groups

  • Teachers: primary, secondary, vocational, adult, special needs; Teacher trainers; Head teachers; Principals; Managers of schools.

Methods & Tools

  • Cooperative workshops within museums, archeological, urban and nature sites (brainstorming, discussions, teamwork, role-playing, case studies).

Study Visits

  • During the course, we also organize study visits to local schools. We discuss with participants their needs and we organize study visits to cover these needs. We usually organize study visits to: 

    • Early education – Primary education – Secondary education – Adult education local schools.
    • Special needs education schools.
    • Museums.

In course fee includes

    • Coffee Breaks that include traditional products.
    • Guided tour of the Historical Center of the town.
    • Dinner in a traditional restaurant of the town.
    • Europass Mobility.
    • A small gift with traditional Cretan products.
    • Certificate of Attendance, for participants who attend at least 80% of the course.

Heraklion

  • 1 week
  • For more information click to download pdf file.
CLILing with Art and (in) Nature (PDF)

A/A LOCATION DATE DURATION COST CONFIRMED ENROLMENT
HERAKLION21 Jul 20251 week560 €ConfirmedPreRegister
HERAKLION20 Jul 20261 week560 €ConfirmedPreRegister
HERAKLION19 Jul 20271 week560 €ConfirmedPreRegister

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