1. What did I learn in the course?

 

The internal image that I had of a traditional teacher was one who constantly talks in class, since I had always imagined the teacher as the “knower” and his/her job was to transmit the knowledge to the students, whose primary role was to listen and take some notes. However, in this course I learnt that the teacher has to make sure students take a more active role in their own learning process. Teaching does not necessarily mean you have to do most of the talking, but you should try to involve your students actively and put an effort into finding suitable tasks for them.

 

2. How has the course impacted my future teaching and ideas? How has it contributed to my development as a teacher?

 

Learning teaching is not something you do while you are on a training course. Instead, you should never let your ideas set in, to remain open to alternative ways of doing things and to always be challenging some of your beliefs.

 

 

3. What have I learnt with the project and how has it made me rethink/reshape my role as a language teacher?

 

Because education has to be adapted to the new generation of students, who do not understand why they have to go to school, I think CLIL provides them an engaging and meaningful context, in which the teacher has to make sure students have enough opportunities to interact and communicate with their peers in order to construct both language and content knowledge.

 

4. How have I participated in the course project?

 

All the group members participated with equal contributions. We created the project as well as the materials together.