Cooperative learning and planing CLIL Tasks

Hi mates, 

in this post I'd share some activities around Cooperative learning and planning CLIL tasks.

First of them I tried to identify the communication skills we'll develop through the unit plan. I share you the doc saved on my GoogleDrive here.

Next step was to decide how to organize my class, and plan some cooperative learning activities. I believe its more rewarding to change the people you work with during the learning process, so in fact I did'nt choose a one way to organize my classroom, instead of that, I'll change from the wholegroup to work in groups of four to pairs depending on the activity. Here you can see the cooperative learning activities I proposed. 

I think that the class set is quite important to make a comfortable learning environment too, therefore I designed a simple Inphography, sure it may be extended and improved, but I think it helps to get into the subject, you can see it here.

Finally I tried to think about the knowledgment my students should bring with them to he unit, which ones we may achieve during the lessons and what should they´ve learned for sure at the end. I share it with you.

About my  learnings in this unit, I must say that I knew the most part of  subjects we talked about from another CLIL course I realized before. However It remains being difficult for me to understand the difference between "language for" and "language through". I find very clear the description of BICS and CALP as theorized by Jim Cummins but can't see how "language through" distinguish from "language for". I'll keep investigating about it and I would be very grateful to anyone who could help me on that.

See you soon.

Quim

Activities module 1_SWOT analysis about CLIL and UNit Planning

Hi fellows, 

In my first post I'll share the activities done in module 1 of Why Not CLIL? Course, I'm having in Espiral

The first activity was a SWOT analysis about CLIL, you can see it here. 

The second task I'd share is my unit planning, check out it here.

 Looking over this module, I realize that I've learnt to have a general look over CLIL methodology, by analysing its strenghts, weaknesses, oportunities and threats by means of SWOT analysis. I would highlight from this part that CLIL methodology can be a great way to improve our didactic skills, but it needs a committed teamworking from different deppartments of the center, and it may be difficult sometimes with the everyday problems to solve and tasks to do.

By the Unit plan I learned to preview the concepts and connections to work with, that may be very helpful when planning the specific activities of the unit.

The main difficult I had to  face was to analyse and summarize the main aspects of the unit I'd plan to do, specially whan talking about connections among different subjects,  

Actually I haven't figured out yet if I understood properly the law aspects of the Unit plan, sure when I receive the task feedback I'll learn more about it.

In order to continue learning about CLIL, I'd ask to an experienced teacher which is the best way to check if our plannings match with the competences established by law. 

Best regards, 

Quim Gubau