Main Seminar Program
Wednesday 17.3.2010
18.30 -> Dinner, VAMK Palosaari Campus Building, Teachers' Dining Room B101, Wolffintie 30
Thursday 18.3.2010
8.30 - 9.00 Registration, VAMK Palosaari Campus Building, Wolffintie 30, Main Entrance
The Morning Session will be held at:
VAMK Palosaari Campus Building, Wolffintie 30, Auditorium C134
Morning Session: Integrating Content to Language, Preparing the language teacher for subject-integrated curriculum. Chair Sanna-Liisa Koski, Langugae Coordinator, VAMK University of Applied Sciences, Vaasa, Finland
9.00 - 9.15 Opening of the Seminar
Welcoming words. Elisabeth Malka, Rector of VAMK University of Applied Sciences, Vaasa, Finland
Orientation. Sanna-Liisa Koski, Language Coordanitor, VAMK University of Applied Sciences, Vaasa, Finland
9.15 - 10.15 Plenary. New Winds in Language Education: Current Needs in Business and Engineering Speak in Favour of More Content Knowledge
Professor Anne Kankaanranta, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
10.15 - 10.35 Coffee
10.35 - 11.30 Experiences of CLIL at Different Levels in Education - What Can be Learnt?
Dr Mikaela Björklund, Åbo Academi, Vaasa, Finland
11.30 - 12.00 The HAMK Implementation Model: Materials for Engineering Students in the Field of Construction.
Helena Parviainen, Senior Lecturer, HAMK University of Applied Sciences, Hämeenlinna, Finland
12.00 - 12.15 Discussion
12.15 - 13.15 Lunch, Teachers' Dining Room B101
The Afternoon Session will continue at:
VAMK Palosaari Campus Building, Wolffintie 30, Auditorium C134. Registration point for participants only attending the afternoon session is infront of this auditorium.
Afternoon Session: The Pedagogy of Teaching in a Foreign/Second Language & Collaboration between the Content Teacher and the Language Teacher, Preparing the content teacher to use English (or other second language) as a language of instruction & to co-operate with the language teacher. Chair Professor (Emeritus) Sauli Takala, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
13.15 - 13.30 How can the Content Teacher and the Language Teacher Work Together Effectively? The Vamk Model for Subject -Integrated Teaching
Lotta Saarikoski, Head of Mechanical Enigneering Department, VAMK University of Applied Sciences, Vaasa, FinlandDr. Eeva Rauto, Senior Lecturer, Technology and Communication, Mechanical Engineering, VAMK University of Applied Sciences, Finland
13.30 - 14.15 The Challenge of Teaching and Studying in a Foreign Language
Dr. Heini-Marja Järvinen, CLILL Teacher Educator, University of Turku, Finland
14.15 - 14.40 Coffee
14.40 - 15.30 Practical Pedagogicial Guidelines for the Subject Teacher in Foreign-Language-Medium Teaching
Dr. Heini-Marja Järvinen, CLILL Teacher Educator, University of Turku, Finland
15.30 - 16.30 Discussion and Closing
Facilitators: Sauli Takala and Lotta Saarikoski
The Seminar is arranged by VAMK UAS's JEP-project and the Language Instructors at Unit of Technology and Communication jointly with the Departemnt of Production and Mechanical Engineering.
