CLIL: Content and Language Integrated Learning (postgraduate certificate)

Our post-graduate offers to aim a substantial and well-balanced programme for both individual teachers and teams who have recently started a CLIL programme or who are considering doing so in the near future. The programme’s scope is sufficiently broad to appeal to coordinators and school management, next to dedicated CLIL teachers.  

We aim to offer general insights as well as concrete concepts that can be used by the participants in their classroom practice. Next to practical workshops and didactics, theoretical courses and managerial aspects of CLIL will be covered as well.

First and foremost, our programme is aimed at subject teachers and language teachers as well as and non-teaching school staff in secondary schools who have recently started a CLIL trajectory or who are considering doing so, and who experience a need for extra training in this field.  

The programme is aimed at CLIL teachers in Flanders and in the Netherlands, as well as at immersion teachers in Wallonia.

Teachers who are not active in a CLIL context, but who wish to discover new methodologies that provide a richer language environment in the classroom, can enrol for the entire programme or for specific courses.

Beginning teachers considering taking up an additional course fall within our target audience as well.  Those who are already qualified as language teachers can combine the post graduate programme (17 SP) with a reduced bachelor course that leads to an additional qualification in a non-language subject (45 SP).  In this way they can improve their employment opportunities in just under a year.

There is also the possibility of combining postgraduate CLIL with subjects from postgraduate PIEC. This offers a unique opportunity to further develop skills in multilingual education and gain practical experience in an international setting. The focus is on integrating subject matter and language learning in multilingual and multicultural educational contexts.

Students learn how to design and implement an effective CLIL approach in their teaching practice, providing significant added value in multilingual and international educational contexts.  

Why choose for the combination CLIL-PIEC?

• Gain expertise in combining language and content learning, a sought-after skill in modern education.
• Collaborate with an international cohort of educators and professionals to develop culturally responsive teaching strategies.
• Enhance your teaching profile with practical, research-based methodologies aligned with global educational trends.
• Integrate intercultural competenties in your teaching and prepare your student for the globalized future