Address: Gartenstraße, Mönchengladbach (Germany) 

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Type of organisation and Status: General secondary school 

Public Contact Person:
Anne-Bettina SCHAMEITAT (Coordinator projects)
Telephone: 02166-21510
email: [email protected] 

Aims and activities of the organisation:
Gymnasium an der Gartenstraße is a general secondary school that has been active in the field of CLIL for more than ten years. There is a bilingual branch that covers geography and citizenship/economics taught in English. Bilingual classes start in year 7 when students are 12 years old. Students who want to take part in the bilingual branch need to prove their communication skills in English as well as their motivation and capacity to cope with the challenge of CLIL. Teachers working in the bilingual branch have university degrees and teaching qualifications in English and one of the CLIL-subjects. Apart from the bilingual branch there is an optional Business English course in years 8 and 9 and 11. For those students we have organized annual meetings in the frame of a regional school network, where they present business plans for start-up companies.

Role of the organisation in the project:
Gymnasium an der Gartenstraße participates in the project as a partner institution. With the experience of having taught CLIL and having organized CLIL related projects for more than ten years, we see our role in developing teaching units (possibly including tests) and CLIL related projects for students. These units could, for example, cover tourism and recreation or energy resources (geography), political systems or the Euro (citizenship/economics). In addition, we could try out and evaluate CLIL material produced by our partners in the project .