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RANKING 2018 .

The CLIL Collection

The EL Gazette teacher training listings include all the accredited language
schools in the UK and Ireland which offer courses in Clil. Melanie Butler explains

Do you only list their Clil courses? these courses. Hilderstone College, for example, has been training
No we try to list all the courses the centre offers which are specific overseas teachers for over 40 years
to primary or secondary education. Most of these providers will also How do I know the trainers are good?
offer refresher courses for teachers of all age groups.
Most of the trainers will have completed the requirements to teach
Do you rank the providers? native speakers. But if you want to know how much experience they
No. We just list all the ones we can find. We do however, rank UK have in Clil ask the schools for the names of the trainers on your
language schools based on their British Council inspection reports, but course and check them out.
these do not cover teacher training. The Clil trainers at Lake school, for example, have actually written
Many of the top-ranking schools in the UK do offer teacher training. Clil materials so you will probably recognise their names.
In fact two of the three UK schools which received a perfect score What about schools which actually have
inspectors appear in our 2018 listing (see opposite page): Wimbledon
School of English and LSI Portsmouth. experience using Clil for teaching?
Well the trainers’ experience is probably more important!
How do I know how good However, Further Education colleges use English as Medium of
a school is at training? Instruction. They offer training for over 16s and are used to teaching
Well you could start by looking at the big training providers like IH both international students and migrants though English as a Medium
London, Bell and of course NILE in Norwich. The new kid on the of Instruction (EMI). Most don’t do overseas teacher training but we
block is British Study Centres a new chain which includes several have found two, one in Edinburgh and the other in Brighton which
schools with a long training record. offer courses in Clil.
Don’t forget the schools which specialise in teaching overseas And we also found one international school, Oxford International
teachers like IPC Exeter, Richard Language College or the Liverpool Study Centre which uses English as a Medium of Instruction all
school of English. And check how long a schools has been running year-round with teachers courses in the summer.

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18 October 2018