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We arrived yesterday night and we were welcome by our nice Maltese families.
Today is our first day at school! The course we are attending is "CLIL technology and ICT tools for teachers working with CLIL". Following a general introduction to CLIL methodology, we discussed within the group the benefits of CLIL teaching and some critical aspects, too. After lunch, we divided into small groups and started to plan a Webquest on a specific topic we will develop in the next days.
It was a stimulating and engaging day and we look forward to seeing what is coming next!

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Today we learnt more about planning a Webquest, which is an inquiry-oriented lesson in which most information comes from the web. We were also introduced to CLIL Store, the platform we would be using to project, store and share organised CLIL teaching materials. We had the opportunity to get to know our course mates better, working in little groups, each one made by teachers interested in the same topic.
We realized that we are just at the beginning of a long and challenging path!

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Our teachers are presenting more and more IT tools to make our lessons multimodal, interactive and attractive by creating multimedia-based activities such as crosswords, puzzles, matching exercises, quiz games. Also, we discussed strategies and applications to prepare and use mind maps to scaffold learning.

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Another intensive day at school! While experimenting the new tools we had met in the previous days, we went on working on our projects,  since tomorrow we are discussing them with our classmates and teachers.

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We are sorry because this challenging experience is coming to a close, but also satisfied with what we have achieved.
Each group presented its project and got a feedback from the teacher and the rest of the class. It was really interesting to see all the different topics and how we put what we learnt into practice, since we come from different European countries (Poland, Slovakia, Portugal, Italy, Hungary, Germany) and we teach in different school levels.

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At the end of the school day we were invited to a welcome drink and we tasted some very good local pastries.
Tonight we will join our host families for a special Maltese dinner!

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Luckily, at the end of the lessons, according to today's program, we went for a tour to Valletta, the capital of Malta. Our guide, Mario, told us a lot of interesting things about the city history and Maltese traditions.
It was a really pleasant and recharging afternoon!

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We worked hard and then we ended our day on the beautiful Golden Beach. We deserved it!

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In the afternoon we came to visit Medina, the former capital of Malta, with a guided tour organized by the school. In spite of the rain, we could appreciate the unique atmosphere of this charming "cittadella".

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Right now we are writing these few lines on a lovely tea room terrace, enjoying some wonderful cakes!

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Afterwards, we went through an evaluation session, where we were asked to reflect on the value of the knowledge gained on the course and we were also encouraged to come up with a personal development action plan.
Finally we were proud to receive our course certificate.

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After lunch, we decided to go back to Valletta to visit the rich baroque St John's Co-cathedral and we were delighted to see the famous Caravaggio paintings "Beheading of St. John the Baptist" and "St Jerome writing". We had also a pleasant walk around Valletta which was interrupted by a sudden shower. Fortunately, it did not last long and it was followed by a spectacular rainbow!

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At the end of the afternoon we came back to our Maltese families to have dinner with them and say good bye.