TACKOK Teaching Academic Content through English (15 op)

The programme itself follows a CLIL ( Content and Language Integrated Learning ) approach of addressing issues specific to both the language and the teaching of the discipline. Interactive contact modules and tasks develop one’s understanding of, and skills for, promoting the learning of multilingual and multicultural student groups.

The learning platform allows versatile use of media to support and document the building of personal and group portfolios.

The programme is composed of eight modules with varying themes of how to teach and learn in multilingual and multicultural higher education learning contexts. Contact sessions are supported by completing a teaching portfolio with course designs, reflective blog posts and critical reviews. Feedback will be given based on teaching observations.

The overall aim of the annual TACE programme is to develop intercultural communication and university pedagogical competence for using English in multimodal teaching, learning, counselling, and assessment situations in the participants’ own fields and practices.

On completion of the programme participants are expected
• to understand the special features and requirements of teaching and learning through a foreign language
• to have increased their own competence and confidence in interactive and educational use of English
• to know how to guide and monitor the special needs of a multilingual and multicultural student group
• to be able to analyse and assess the linguistic and cognitive requirements of their own discipline and its content to be taught
• to be able to design and assess versatile collaborative learning tasks suitable for knowledge construction and language use at the conceptual level needed
• to know how to lecture through an interactive approach and guide small group work
• know how to instruct, guide and assess students’ academic and research communication and how to give constructive feedback on it.

The participants will get a certificate after having completed the programme.