GCMC

Here's the article which the presentation at ACTFL conference was based on: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Last week at the ACTFL conference in Chicago, Salam Mairi (Pic 2) talked about teacher educators' journey in different European countries in integrating global citizenship education (GCE) and multilingual competences (MC) into their teaching practices.

It's a wrap!!! Thank you to each and everyone of you who attended the #GCMCConference We hope you had a great time here at the University of Graz!!! 📸 1 & 2: Plenary: Pia Resnik (KPH Vienna/Krems and University of Vienna, Austria) “GCE and Multilingualism in Teacher Education”

The poster presentations at the #GCMCConference took place on Saturday afternoon. 😃 Thank you to everyone who presented and well done! 👏👏👏

📸 7: Ana Beaven and Claudia Borghetti (University of Bologna, Italy) “Take Action Against Fake News”

📸 6: Jan Ybema (Fryske Academy, The Netherlands) “Stamping Your Language Passport”

The four GCMC Workshops, which were held by our project partners, took place on Saturday morning. 😌😊 📸 1 & 2: Johanna Gruber and Erlis Lacej (University of Graz, Austria) ”Exploring Interconnectedness and Multilingualism”

📸 9: Lisa Horvath "Supporting sustainable education with social emotional learning in language learning textbooks"

📸 8: Karmen Pižorn University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) "Slovene Primary Students' Perceptions of Their Plurilingual Competencies"

Here is a quick recap of some of the presentations that took place on Friday and Saturday. 😃☺️ 📸 1: Anabela V. Simões (University of Aveiro, Portugal) "Developing global and intercultural competence through community-school engagement projects"

The first plenary was held by Wilma Hauser (PH Steiermark, Austria) "Transformative Bildung und Global Citizenship Education" and Katharina Platzer (MS Gnas and University of Graz, Austria) “Integrating global skills teaching into regular EFL lessons - walking the talk".

A special thank you goes to the Stadt Graz local councillor Anna-Sophie Slama for being there with us during the opening ceremony and a big thank you to Stadt Graz for sponsoring our dinner reception.

The #GCMCConference was a huge success. 🍀🍀🍀 We thank you all for coming to Graz and participating in our conference. It was a great pleasure to organize this event, that has welcomed participants from all over the world.