Curriculum for Preschool Bilingual Education CLIL is produced by Bilingual education: a step ahead Project co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.

It is a comprehensive collection of knowledge-building and daily practice resources that explains the what, how, and why of teaching English as a Second Language to preschool speakers of other languages, using CLIL Methodology.

It brings together the experiences and knowledge gained through the Erasmus+ Bilingual education: a step ahead Project and focused on the implementation of CLIL in Early Childhood Education.

This Framework has been developted by all the preschool institutions from Greece, Poland, Romania and Turkey.

It contains useful information preschool teachers need to know in order to build and implement a high-quality preschool bilingual program.

It is designed to offer a great support for preschool teachers working in classrooms where other language is spoken, but they want to implement bilingual education.

A good bilingual preschool program is an excellent way to support the development of preschoolers in their native language and also jump-start them toward a future of fully bilingual professional adults.

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) represents the best framework in terms of a content-based bilingual approach. CLIL may be the best-fit methodology for language teaching and learning in a multilingual Europe.

CLIL promotes a natural and holistic approach. Using CLIL in kindergarten may have success because at preschool level the methodology is holistic and preschoolers learn in real experiences and tasks.

The typical models for preschool level are language showers and totally early immersion.

Language showers represent daily lessons/activities and totally early immersion starts in kindergarten or in the first primary grade.

Language showers for preschool education are aimed at boosting natural use of English and a good attitude towards English learning.

For Bilingual education: a step ahead Erasmus+ project, the CLIL model used is language showers.

Language showers are about 30 to 60 minutes expose a day, using games, nursery rhymes, songs, visuals, animated stories for children, handling objects/toys, movement.

The Curriculum for Preschool Bilingual

Education CLIL contains nine chapters which reffer to:

Educational System

Preschool Educational System

The Curriculum Content

Bilingual Preschool Education focused on:

Why English? 10 Reasons to Learn English CLIL Method on Bilingual Teaching Five Steps to have an Exceptional Bilingual

Space and a Successful Bilingual Preschool Program

Daily Routine Parent Involvement in Bilingual Education

Second Language Acquisition Development in Early Years English Language Acquisition as a Second

Language Steps Comprehension of Second Language Communication in Second Language

Teaching Methods, Techniques, Procedures

On long term, the qualitative development of educational services for early education, including learning English at early ages, will ensure all children a successful school start.

Turn every minute of the day into English learning opportunities for your preschoolers!