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30.11.2020
Second Expert Meeting of VITbox Project: Training materials on the CEFR Companion Volume are under development
The VITbox team met on September 7th and 8th to discuss the draft VITbox material within the ECML project “CEFR Companion Volume implementation toolbox”. These materials are designed to help teacher educators and teacher trainers in initial teacher training and in professional development programmes as well as language teachers to implement the ideas of the CEFR Companion Volume. At the end of the project, you will have access to a mouth-watering Companion Volume Moodle course offering the following items on the menu:
- VITbox appetizers (short videos on individual modules)
- VITbox main course list (offering more extensive videos on each module)
- VITbox full experience with a cherry on top (providing further reading material)
- VITbox dessert list (with recorded webinars)
- VITbox wine list (with bibliographical references)
and special treats such as:
- VITbox dégustation (sample tasks for teaching and assessment)
- VITbox shopping list (offering checklists for training contexts)
- VITbox recipes (training activities)
etc.
Bon appétit! Enjoy your meal!
Johann Fischer, Laurent Rouveyrol, Barbara Sawicka, Julia Zabala Delgado
- VITbox project website: English - French
- ECML programme of activities 2020-2023 "Inspiring innovation in language education: changing contexts, evolving competences": English - French
24.06.2020
First expert meeting of VITbox Project (26-27 March 2020)
The ECML project “CEFR Companion Volume Implementation Toolbox” – or “the VITbox Project” for short – has now started its activities. The project aims to provide digital resources that exemplify how to implement the ideas of the new CEFR Companion Volume in language teaching at university and in vocational training. These resources will include short videos, checklists, texts and classroom tasks and for use by teacher educators and teacher trainers in their training sessions and by language teachers for self-study purposes. The material will be produced in English and French but will include examples from other languages. The idea behind the VITbox project is to create an open toolbox from which educators, trainers and teachers can freely choose the resources they consider suitable for their purposes, adapt them to their individual training needs and eventually create their own material.
The team is now looking forward to setting up a substantial database of varied materials, that has been piloted in their own training sessions and freely available to the public.
Johann Fischer, Laurent Rouveyrol, Barbara Sawicka, Julia Zabala Delgado
- VITbox project website: English - French
- ECML programme of activities 2020-2023 "Inspiring innovation in language education: changing contexts, evolving competences": English - French