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 ZanonEurolanguages

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

Ongoing support group

Univerity:• initial training•in-class observation•preparation of post-graduate course of specialisation for future CLIL trainers/teachers

Training course:minimum 60 hours + drilling

Two-week courseabroad

Implementation:min. 1 module/termor 1 hr. CLIL/week

Training of CLIL teachers

CLIL Implementation

Sept 1998-May 1999

June 1999-Sept 1999

September 1999

November 1999

Teacher training courses

3 Lingua B-funded “finishing” courses abroad

CLIL across the curriculum

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 Zanonzanon@itczanon.it