ISTITUTO TECNICO COMMERCIALE “ANTONIO ZANON” UDINE - ITALY Udine (population 96,000 ca.) Friuli Venezia Giulia Region (NE Italy) Town charter 987 a.d. Under Venetian Republic (15th-18th centuries) Under Austro-Hungarian Empire (late 18th-mid 19th centuries) Founded 1866 • 140 teachers • 1,287 students (14-18 years old) • 4 courses of study • ERICA: Foreign correspondents • IGEA : Accountants • Mercurio: Accountants/Computer programmers • Technical Lycée Timetable Monday to Saturday 33-36 hours/week, six 50-minute periods/day ITC Zanon also offers • Night school for adults (bookkeeping diploma) • Courses in foreign languages and computer studies for the community • Courses of Italian for immigrants • Education for prisoners at local jail Educational “autonomy” 1998 Schools now take more responsibility for • curriculum planning • extra-curricular projects • economic policy ITC Zanon Eurolanguages Project • General courses for teachers • Training courses for future CLIL practitioners • Implementation of foreign language medium teaching General language courses for teachers • • • • English, German, French, Spanish any level Revise, improve, complement existing skills Promote intercultural/plurilingual awareness represent “nursery” for future CLIL teachers CLIL training course • • • • 60 hours language revision/communication language of classroom management Readings on CLIL worldwide Microlanguage of subject Training of CLIL teachers Training course: minimum 60 hours + drilling Two-week course abroad Implementation: min. 1 module/term or 1 hr. CLIL/week Univerity: • initial training •in-class observation •preparation of postgraduate course of specialisation for future CLIL trainers/teachers Ongoing support group CLIL Implementation Sept 1998-May 1999 June 1999-Sept 1999 Teacher training courses 3 Lingua B-funded “finishing” courses abroad September 1999 CLIL across the curriculum November 1999 bilingual education seminar CLIL Diffusion February 2000 February 2000 2-day training workshop for all schools interested Setting-up of Udine CLIL Network (see University of Venice website) Schools belonging to the Udine CLIL Network Istituto Tecnico Commerciale “Antonio Zanon” Istituto Tecnico Industriale “Arturo Malignani” Liceo Scientifico “Niccolò Copernico” Liceo Classico “Jacopo Stellini” Istituto Magistrale “Caterina Percoto” Istituto Professionale “Bonaldo Stringher” Liceo Scientifico”Giovanni Marinelli” ITC Antonio Zanon [email protected]