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• Announcing a new range of courses on quality criteria in CLIL materials

  The CCN have announced a range of courses under the theme 'State-of-the-Art CLIL: Quality Criteria in CLIL Materials'. Courses will be held in in France, Finland, Italy and Spain. See attachment for a list of courses and contact details.

• Announcing the CLIL Cascade Network (CCN): http://ccn.infoweb.as.tietotalo.fi/English.iw3

  The CLIL Cascade Network is a networking and professional development tool for CLIL teachers worldwide created under the Key Activity 2 / Languages in the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission. See attachment for an introductory guide, giving details on what it is, who it's for and how to get involved.

• Celtic Kaleidoscope: Two CLIL Courses on Irish Studies

  The Centrum Česká Kanada in South Bohemia, Czech Republic is holding two practical and interactive CLIL courses in August 09 on the culture of Ireland. Lesson contents to include: Irish history, geography, music, comedy and literature. See attachment for further information, including contact details.

• CLIL Fusion Conference 2008 Communique available for download

  The document provides the background, rationale, conclusions and recommendations from 2008's CLIL Fusion conference held in Tallinn, Estonia.

• CLIL Materials Production: Pilot Course in Eichstätt, Germany

  The CLIL Cascade Network is piloting a course on CLIL Materials Production in Eichstätt, Germany, 1-4 April 2009. The course is organized by CCN, University of Jyväskylä (Finland) and Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Unterricht and Kultus in cooperation with the English Didactics Department of the Catholic University at Eichstaett (Germany). See attachment for more information, including contact information.

• Implementing CLIL in Primary and Pre-primary Education: CLIL Training Course

  A Comenius in-service training course on CLIL will be held in Cyprus in May 2009. The course is suitable for teachers of English wanting to teach another subject and teachers of other subjects wanting to teach through CLIL.

• Master of Arts in CLIL

  The University of Education in Lower Austria has introduced a Master of Arts in CLIL. See attachment for a description of the course and contact information.

• Plans for new e-book on CLIL: contributions welcome

  Spring 2009 sees the publication of a new electronic book on CLIL from the University of Maastricht. The focus of the book is on the practice of content and language integration in the higher education classroom setting.

• State-of-the-art CLIL: Quality Criteria in CLIL Materials (107k)

• CLIL 2010 Conference: In Pursuit of Excellence

  Onestopclil is looking forward to the CLIL 2010 Conference: In Pursuit of Excellence - 30 September-2 October 2010, Eichstätt, Germany.

• Conference report: LINC Conference on Learning, Innovation & Creativity in CLIL

  Aleksandra Zaparucha, Poland gives an excellent overview of the LINC conference in Turku, Finland 24-26 September 2009

• CLIL Teacher Training Courses at NILE

  Find out about the Primary CLIL and Secondary CLIL courses run by the Norwich Institute of Language Education (NILE) in the UK.