Author: Soňa Grestyová

Evaluation of Workshop CLIL Within The Framework of Erasmus Project
I was privileged to be a part of the CLIL (Clil and Language Integrated Learning) workshop on March 17th-18th 2016 in London, organised by ADC College, London. The aim of the workshop was to acquire the CLIL method, which integrates foreign language learning and learning of the concrete subject. We use this method at our school at the first grade in teaching Maths and Natural Science. After finishing workshop we have started to use this method in Arts class as well. The CLIL method has many advanateges. It makes easier for students to study a different langauge, because they use the language in real and meaningful context. Teachers who were a part of this workshop got many practical advises and inspirative recommendations of how to use this method. A great advantage indeed were classes focused on teachers‘ language skills improvement, which were also thematically related to many different cultural and social aspects of the United Kingdom. So, the teachers were able to learn a lot about the United Kingdom, as well as they obtained a wide repertoire of new interesting activities, which they can use daily in their profession.
ACD College lectors arranged their programmes and activities very effectively, with all regards to cultural particularities of the participants. Teachers from many different European countries (Poland, Slovak Republic, Italy, Germany, Spain...) were able to communicate in English for two weeks, improve their langauge skills, get new information about foreign education systems and discuss a lot of actual and interesting topics. We also got a chance to plan the whole lesson by using this method, to integrate Bloom taxonomy into our teaching and solve problems of student differentiation during our class. 
I really liked classes where our lectors were using excercises, interactive sheets and worksheets, which were focused on our mutual cooperation. I would also highlight a class, where we all had to plan a 15-minutes longing class. Our lector and other students then had to evaluate us and give us different ideas of how to be more effective.
Two weeks in London, surrounded by various teachers comming from many different European countries, have inspired me to study more English. I would like to apply my knowledge into our school with the same enthusiasm as was typical for all the lectors from ACD College, London. After my return we have decided to teach Arts class by CLIL method at our school, so that our students would get a chance to practise their English while doing something they really like.