Project SCILLA STEM Content Integrated with Language-Learning Activities
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- Published: 25 May 2020
Last autumn, Kazakhstan American Free University in partnership with Michigan State University (USA) submitted a joint application for grant funding for the SCILLA project and it was approved. The long-awaited project received funding, and in the next 8 months the participants will work online to implement the goals and objectives of the international project.
Douglas K.Hartman, professor of the University of Michigan, Peter De Costa, associate professor of the University of Michigan, Julia Novitskaya, head of the department of the Kazakh-American University, as well as teachers of Kazakhstan universities take part in the project.The representatives of Kostanay State Pedagogical University named after U. Sultangasin became the teachers of the department of philology of OP "Foreign language: two foreign languages" M.I. Kudritskaya, associated professor, candidate of pedagogical sciences, A.S. Kinzhibayeva, senior teacher, head of educational program and A.A. Bermukhambetova, senior teacher, master of humanities.
The goals of this project:
- develop the course using CLIL /STEM methodologies
- developing CLIL skills,
- development of an online module for the course programme
With the support of national and foreign colleagues, English teachers will be able to use and upgrade the CLIL and STEM courses, which is also important in the distance education system.
The "SCILLA" project is an innovative idea that can make the process of modernization of education effective and appropriate to modern requirements.
