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 [email protected]