tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30824239657625636092024-03-13T14:37:27.718+01:00CLIL Seminar in Getxo Blog on CLIL for Secondary teachers loli iglesiashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296327933268529243noreply@blogger.comBlogger194125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082423965762563609.post-54102642480175590922022-07-06T13:48:00.005+02:002022-07-06T13:53:06.031+02:00Attention to diversity in bilingual education <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTLAkI72AMIPZAamAnWYHT7K0P9WSscPtg0Ug&usqp=CAU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="129" data-original-width="392" height="131" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTLAkI72AMIPZAamAnWYHT7K0P9WSscPtg0Ug&usqp=CAU" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">
This is not my first post on this topic. Long ago I highlighted the need to
provide educators and people in general with empirical evidence to demonstrate
that CLIL programmes work even in disadvantaged contexts. However, I reckon that we still have a long way to go before CLIL is open to anyone and not only
to the socially privileged students. Needless to say a crucial factor is
the process of selection carried out at schools. In this sense, we can see
a rising trend in open CLIL programmes in European countries. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">As Professor
Christiane Dalton-Puffer states, "CLIL classrooms are becoming more
inclusive places where subject content needs to be made accessible to a wide
variety of learners regardless of their socioeconomic status, educational background or academic achievement level".</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Next Monday she
will present the ADiBE project, aimed at making bilingual education a more
inclusive reality for all. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">I am sure this
will be a unique opportunity to learn about how to tackle attention to diversity
in our CLIL settings. The event is for free. You can read more about it and register </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/clil-mondays-by-prof-christiane-dalton-puffer-vienna-tickets-162862136033?aff=erelexpmlt"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">here</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif">. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">My sincere and
heartfelt thanks to Professor Dalton-Puffer for her contribution to this
pivotal issue which we are so concerned about. </span></p></div>loli iglesiashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296327933268529243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082423965762563609.post-27165170889798029662022-06-01T09:14:00.005+02:002022-06-04T10:31:05.678+02:00CLIL in languages other than English<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.ecml.at/Portals/1/6MTP/project-daryai-hansen/images/DaryaiHansen_news_EN.png?ver=2021-02-03-144522-150" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="391" data-original-width="800" height="195" src="https://www.ecml.at/Portals/1/6MTP/project-daryai-hansen/images/DaryaiHansen_news_EN.png?ver=2021-02-03-144522-150" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="text-align: justify;">It is hard to believe that another academic
course is coming to an end. Last CLIL seminar session took place on
May 31st and it was a memorable event due to several reasons: there were
LOCIT presentations that showed students' CLIL outcomes in different subjects,
we presented the tools for </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="text-align: justify;">UDL
implementation, </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="text-align: justify;">teachers </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="text-align: justify;">highlighted the benenefits of professional
networking and insisted on </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="text-align: justify;">the need to
keep on taking part in teacher training sessions throughout their teaching
professional life.</span></p><p>
</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="DE" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: DE;">If I had to choose one of the many
conclusions teachers have drawn regarding CLIL practice, I would say that the
most crucial one is that they have confirmed there are successful
transferences or transitions among languages. In the seminar sessions we have
presented plenty of methodological clues for making the subject area
comprehensible for students and these clues are valid in languages other than
English. This is the reason why Basque and English teachers working
together with the subject teachers will make the most of the CLIL approach.
</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black;">I must say
that Basque schools are already paving the way for a true development of a
plurilingual competence. Still, there is a long way to go. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black;">French is the
second foreign language in most of our schools and there are some subject
teachers who are implementing their subject in French so I will try to
contribute by listing some useful resources to facilitate their EMILE practice:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">- A basic
resource on EMILE is available <a href="https://www.emilangues.education.fr/international/emile-clil-europe">here </a></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black;">- <a href="https://airensection.blogspot.com/">This </a>is
a powerful blog with practical resources in French. If you wish, enter <a href="https://airensection.blogspot.com/p/section-bilingue-de-francais.html" target="_blank">here</a> to
access resources for Secondary students. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black;">- A
website on plurilingual education in French can be found <a href="https://lefilplurilingue.org/">here</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black;">Last but not
least, the European Centre for Modern Languages of the Council of Europe is
currently developing a project on CLIL in languages other than English. </span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="DE" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: DE;">If you visit </span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.ecml.at/ECML-Programme/Programme2020-2023/CLILinlanguagesotherthanEnglish/tabid/4298/language/en-GB/Default.aspx"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">their website</span></a></span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="DE" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: DE;">, you will find the project description and the outcomes in English, French
and German. If you enter<a href="https://www.ecml.at/Resources/ECMLresources/tabid/277/language/en-GB/Default.aspx"> this
link,</a> you will access a great number of resources in different
languages. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">From these lines, my heartfelt thanks to the authors of
the aforementioned projects, which are essential to see CLIL as a
way to promote excellence in language education. </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p></p>loli iglesiashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296327933268529243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082423965762563609.post-55711749768811659292022-05-18T09:43:00.001+02:002022-06-05T09:53:48.797+02:00International Conference on Bilingual Education 2021<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSS-DZS8N1UaHOfKWHIBKHDAxGoCvPtNkDdzA&usqp=CAU" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="159" data-original-width="318" height="200" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSS-DZS8N1UaHOfKWHIBKHDAxGoCvPtNkDdzA&usqp=CAU" width="400" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Professor Do Coyle delivered a keynote conference in Decemeber 2021 (</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: inherit; text-align: justify;">Taiwan Bilingual Conference 2021). </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In this session she explored the implications for change and development in pedagogic thinking which are urgently needed in our multilingual classrooms to enable our young people to be equipped with the knowledge and skills to be active, contented global citizens in the ‘here and now’ and the near future. Therefore, both subject teachers and language teachers should be involved in this challenge. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">How can we do it? Professor Coyle provides educators with essential clues so as to "teach for deeper learning" across all language and subject areas. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span face="ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"" style="background-color: white; font-weight: inherit;">She kindly </span><span face="Roboto, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; white-space: pre-wrap;"> agreed to release this keynote speech and make it public for all CLIL practitioners. You can listen to it below these lines: </span></span></p><p><br /></p>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kRkASyZqZtE" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>
<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">If you wish to access the slides of her talk, just enter </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fEsXKgOtfV-4Hj6HxdfbWsb5Cz2zqv7N/view?usp=sharing" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">here</a><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Our deepest gratitude to Dr. Do Coyle and to the Center for Research on Bilingual Education at the National Taipei University of Education, which hosted this Conference on December 4th 2021, sponsored by Taiwan's Minsitry of Education.</i> </span></span></div><div><br /></div>loli iglesiashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296327933268529243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082423965762563609.post-59600744394340961192022-04-27T21:26:00.003+02:002022-04-27T21:33:03.806+02:00ASSESSMENT IN CLIL: RESEARCH, QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://comeniusassessment.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/5keystrats.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="609" height="231" src="https://comeniusassessment.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/5keystrats.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">On May 3rd we will have our second seminar session on Assessment in CLIL. As you will remember, on April 5th we focused on the importance of prioritizing formative assessment over summative assessment and the tools to put it into practice, making special emphasis on the need to combine teacher's assessment with self and peer assessment . We also provided attendees with some examples of learner-friendly CLIL tests, which could be described as tests that include visual support to facilitate students' understanding of the tasks. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Our next session on this challenging issue, will be a Q and A session in which we will pose a series of essential questions about assessment and we will ask you to answer them by considering what you have learnt through your CLIL practice.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Needless to say that we are not thinking of making you suffer by stressing you out. We expect to find the most suitable answers to key issues related to assessment among all participants. The most recent research and publications on the topic will be of great help to walk on safe ground. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Therefore, below these lines you can find the questions so that you can think them over and be ready to take part in our virtual panel discussion next Tuesday:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">- Which types of assessment can you think of? When and what for?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">- How can we identify effective assessment?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">- What do we assess: content or language or both?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">- What tools can be used for assessment?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">- How can we assess previous knowledge and progression?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">- How can I deal with learning difficulties?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">- How can we minimize the effect of the language or lack of it in the content assessment?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">- How can we assess the skills/processes/competences? </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">- How can we assess group work? </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">- Who assesses?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">- Do you give students feedback on their language? How?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">- Should we provide students with assessment criteria when they present or write in the subject area? If so, how?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/39nqrM0LNfU" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Looking forward to meeting you all on May 3rd and listening to your ideas on the aforementioned questions. </span></p>loli iglesiashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296327933268529243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082423965762563609.post-37710720669232870952022-03-16T18:13:00.008+01:002022-03-31T16:51:15.794+02:00 NEW CLIL PROJECTS FOR 2022-2023: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS0WIhaxFAvVzZMHu8SzAuxrRev4neVpf_NJQ&usqp=CAU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="154" data-original-width="326" height="154" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS0WIhaxFAvVzZMHu8SzAuxrRev4neVpf_NJQ&usqp=CAU" width="326" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The new call for Multilingual Projects allows schools to start or continue
developing a subject through the medium of English. I have been working on this
for 18 years now and I am really pleased to say that school teachers and
students have provided me with very positive feedback on the outcomes of the
project. </span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="DE" style="color: #222222; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In short, st</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="DE" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #444444;">udents feel more motivated
to learn the language because they are actually doing something with it,
whereas teachers do not have to struggle to keep students' attention. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: verdana;">Some schools in the area where I work are asking for the project for the
first time. I have been delivering specific training for them in order to
let them know about the main ingredients each CLIL unit must include. However,
I am aware that this powerful dish needs longer cooking time so allow me to
share a masterclass by Lola Reeves Garay Abad, teacher and teacher trainer from
Trinity College. I am sure she will shed light on what CLIL is about.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: DE;"> </span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: DE;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2wZ-9fvAP74" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px; mso-ansi-language: DE;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana;">From these lines, my heartfelt thanks to Lola on her inspiring talk. </span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE" style="color: #222222; font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Looking forward to meeting CLIL teachers on our next seminar session on April 5th. We will continue with the LOCIT model (Lesson Observation and Critical Incident Technique): three schools will show their students' classroom practice and, as usual, their outcomes will be effective tools on self- reflection and professional growth. </span></p><p style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Apart from this, we will focus on Feedback and Assessment in CLIL. We will be presenting some examples of CLIL-friendly tests and all seminar members will have the opportunity to share what type of assessment they carry out and its outcomes. </span></span></p>
loli iglesiashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296327933268529243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082423965762563609.post-36702604474935225282022-02-27T20:35:00.018+01:002022-03-06T19:11:26.623+01:00INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2022<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://api.wearehomesforstudents.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/shutterstock_1271366971-768x291.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="291" data-original-width="768" height="151" src="https://api.wearehomesforstudents.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/shutterstock_1271366971-768x291.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.internationalwomensday.com/">International Women's Day</a> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-size: 12pt;">(IWD) is an annual global
campaign marked on 8 March that celebrates the social, economic, cultural, and
political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for
accelerating women's equality. </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="DE" style="background: white; color: #0a0a0a; font-size: 12pt;">Each year the IWD campaign has a
new theme, and in 2022 the theme will be #BreakTheBias. T</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="DE" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">he following
lines can be read on every IWD platform as an introduction to the
topic:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="DE" style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Imagine a gender equal world.</span></i><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">A world free of bias,
stereotypes, and discrimination.</span></i><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">A world that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive.</span></i><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">A world where difference is valued and celebrated.</span></i><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Together we can forge women's
equality.</span></i><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Collectively we can all <b>#BreakTheBias</b>.</span></i><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Individually, we're all
responsible for our own thoughts and actions - all day, every day.</span></i><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">We can break the bias in our
communities.</span></i><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">We can break the bias in our
workplaces.</span></i><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">We can break the bias in our
schools, colleges and universities.</span></i><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Together, we can all break
the bias - on International Women's Day (IWD) and beyond.<br />
</span></i><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">How
can we collaborate to break the bias? </span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="DE" style="color: #212529; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">You and your students can
take part in the campaign proposed by IWD 2022 Partners in many different
ways. Have a look at the different options </span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><a href="https://www.internationalwomensday.com/Theme"><span lang="DE" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE;">here</span></a></span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="DE" style="color: #212529; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">. </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="DE" style="color: #212529; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Do you need any downloadable
resources for your classroom? I hope these wil be helpful for you:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="DE" style="color: #212529; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: 12pt;">Resources for the Primary classroom:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><br /></span></span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/19bxyhOCdrkOhV_ZY0mPIJ8VO4sBUUAoN/view?usp=sharing"><span style="color: blue;">OXFAM resources </span></a>: these activities can easily be adapted to suit the needs of younger and older students. </span></li></ul><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Play with these </span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HSgbY3nBqUX9KLdkgfAj3u6qa3mA0eSZ/view?usp=sharing"><span lang="DE" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: DE;">Classroom Activity cards</span></a></span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">: use them to
engage children in activities and conversations that foster an
inclusive mindset. Apart from using the ones provided, invite your
students to add their own IWD activity for friends and/or
family. Then, share them with students from other classrooms, place
them on the school walls and upload them onto the school website.</span></li>
</ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Resources for both Primary and
Secondary classrooms:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"> The World Association of Girl Guides
and Girl Scouts has released an impactful resource.
There are three categories of activities within the pack:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #212529; line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Understanding Gender: exploring gender roles and stereotypes.</span></li></ul><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #212529; line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Women’s rights are Human Rights: exploring the concept of
rights and why they are important.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #212529; line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Gender & Climate Change: exploring how climate
change disproportionately affects women and girls.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="DE" style="color: #212529; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">The pack materials are aimed at
children aged:</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #212529; line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">between 6
- 11 years<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #212529; line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">between 12
- 15 years<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #212529; line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">15 years
and above</span></li>
</ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #212529; font-size: 12pt;">You can download the pack </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JX161yTFl-s8oaXct9haTqiyAhTTChOP/view?usp=sharing" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">here. </span></a></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Resources for the Secondary
classroom: </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://globaldimension.org.uk/the-global-learning-programme/"><span style="color: blue;">Global Dimension platform</span></a> provides educators
with a wide variety of resources on IWD: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">- Global Learning Programme
Resources for <b>Science </b>teachers at Secondary level can be downloaded
from <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M-IZYYaS4Y44fAlWRq7zWZTpNZu1pOVr/view?usp=sharing"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">- You will find Gobal Learning
Programme Resources to develop <b>Literacy</b> </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bxV2p0DKLyTSnGuX0zFMD5dZG0c4DXg6/view?usp=sharing" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;">. The proposals will be
specially useful if you teach Language, Global Issues, PSHE or Ethical
Values. For those of you who are working on the reading plan, the last activity
focuses on a proposal which students will carry out in the library
of the school. It can be used in any language. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">- If you teach <b>History</b>,</span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LVh7DFweja87jqDSNpHidWCinlLCFJBu/view?usp=sharing" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;"> this</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> is your pack of resources to
celebrate IWD. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">- Math teachers will find some ideas <a href="https://thirdspacelearning.com/blog/get-set-international-womens-day-fab-5-mathematicians-topical-maths-4/#13-6-katherine-johnson-">here </a><span style="font-family: verdana;">.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://media.istockphoto.com/vectors/international-womens-day-8th-march-hashtag-breakthebias-horizontal-vector-id1365169395?k=20&m=1365169395&s=612x612&w=0&h=0WkPqD3MSP5sHf5hdLpD8QBVhQeOLwxIDI1wXs2Ysq8=" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="231" data-original-width="612" height="120" src="https://media.istockphoto.com/vectors/international-womens-day-8th-march-hashtag-breakthebias-horizontal-vector-id1365169395?k=20&m=1365169395&s=612x612&w=0&h=0WkPqD3MSP5sHf5hdLpD8QBVhQeOLwxIDI1wXs2Ysq8=" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="DE" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Let's break the bias together! </span></span></p></div><p></p>loli iglesiashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296327933268529243noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082423965762563609.post-45139957568999200202022-02-18T21:10:00.027+01:002022-02-20T11:42:02.828+01:00Writing in the content areas (ii)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/styles/large/public/images/RS186_178402698-hig_0.jpg?itok=ZTy2Hn8g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/styles/large/public/images/RS186_178402698-hig_0.jpg?itok=ZTy2Hn8g" width="480" /></a></div><p></p><p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">My previous post aimed at highlighting the importance of working with
text type models and providing students with frames that scaffold
their written production. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Today I would like to share my "Ten commandments" for
writing across the curriculum:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1) Spend the necessary time to make students see that they are going to
have a clear purpose for their writing task. CLIL provides a purpose for
language use so this will not be a difficult aim to achieve. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2) Deconstruct text models with students, that is, analyze the structure
of the text, the use of specific vocabulary and linking words, the way
arguments have been used to support the leading statement, etc. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">You can see an example</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/writing/upper-intermediate-b2/an-opinion-essay"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> here</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">3) Allow some time for students to generate ideas and organize them in
the classroom. I suggest that they should work with online
dictionaries to help them face vocabulary issues while you monitor the process
and answer their questions related to text structure, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sentence patterns, connectors, paraphrasing
and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">4) Offer<a href="https://www.teachthought.com/storage/2019/09/writing-in-other-content-areas-ideas-literacy.png"> a wide range of writing tasks</a>. The reason is obvious: learners
learn by doing. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">5) Do not link all writing to assessment. Students need to see
that they write to learn but they should not feel anxious. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">6) Provide students with<a href="https://www.reallearners.co.uk/scaffolding-curriculum-subjects-for-secondary-pupils-new-to-english/"> scaffolding</a>. Needless to say that when the
learner can perform the task independently, the scaffolding should be gradually taken
away. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">7) Integrate writing tasks with different activities they have been
doing : write about something they have read or about a video they have seen,
a visit to the Museum, an experiment, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">8) Find an audience or a reader different from the teacher. There
are different ways you can do this: they can share their productions with other
students in the same class or they can include their pieces of writing int he
school magazine, for instance. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">9) Do not limit your feedback to the end of the writing process. Tell
students they are progressing while they are writing (if you allow time for
writing in the classroom, which I strongly recommend)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">10) <strong style="font-style: inherit; outline: 0px;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #373737; font-weight: normal; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">Do pair
work, do peer work</span></strong><strong><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #373737; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">: </span></strong></span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #373737; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">the brainstorming and planning can be done in
pairs. This will also be a natural way to integrate skills because students
will be talking. Introduce </span><strong><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #373737; font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><a href="https://youtu.be/UaTp5ymh5iI">peer-assessment</a> too, asking students to say something they
liked about their peers' written production and something they could improve or
is missing. Remind them that they should pay attention to content and not only
to accuracy. You can hand out <a href="https://www.fortheloveofteachers.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Two-stars-and-a-wish-2-1-796x1024.jpg">this simple tool </a>to students so that they fill it in after reading their classmates' written work. </span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: verdana; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Looking forward to knowing about your viewpoint on each of the "commandments" from the list above. </span></p><p></p>loli iglesiashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296327933268529243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082423965762563609.post-119203596001318402022-02-01T20:15:00.005+01:002022-02-19T19:51:28.745+01:00Writing in the content areas (I)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSzxt8p3hHhH0W6nyAJKFmZCTW99OZXarLP6Q&usqp=CAU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="285" data-original-width="177" height="320" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSzxt8p3hHhH0W6nyAJKFmZCTW99OZXarLP6Q&usqp=CAU" width="199" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">I</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="text-align: justify;"> am aware that CLIL teachers are very concerned about students' written productions across the curriculum. Therefore, today I am going to start by sharing the conclusions of a </span><span style="text-align: justify;"> research which was carried out two years ago in Granada. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-align: justify;"><b> </b>The participants were a total of 112 students who were in the fourth year of Secondary Education. All of them came from public schools. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">The groups</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 0.05pt; text-align: justify;"> were </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">organized into: ‘CLIL group’ ,who studied their Secondary educational
period</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 0.05pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">following a CLIL pedagogical
approach in English, </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"> and ‘Non-CLIL group’, who</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 0.05pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">studied</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 0.55pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">their</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 0.55pt; text-align: justify;"> S</span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">econdary</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 0.55pt; text-align: justify;">
</span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">educational</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 0.6pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">period</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 0.55pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">in</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 0.55pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">Spanish,</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 0.6pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">being</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 0.55pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">the</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 0.55pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">subject</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 0.55pt; text-align: justify;">
</span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">of</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 0.6pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">English</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 0.55pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">as</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: -2.95pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">a
foreign language a part of the official curriculum for Secondary Education. </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">All participants were</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 0.05pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">Spanish</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 1.3pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">native</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 1.3pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">speakers</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 1.3pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">and</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 1.35pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">learners</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 1.3pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">of</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 1.3pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">English</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 1.35pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">as</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 1.3pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">a</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 1.3pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">L2</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 1.35pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">ranged</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 1.3pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">in</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 1.3pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">age</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 1.3pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">between</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: 1.35pt; text-align: justify;">
</span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">15</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: -2.95pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">and</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: -0.15pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">16</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">years</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">old,</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">which</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">means</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">that</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">age</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">was </span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">not</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">a</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">factor</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">that</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">influenced</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">the</span><span style="font-family: verdana; letter-spacing: -0.1pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;">results.</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0.5pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="text-align: justify;">As</span><span style="letter-spacing: 1.45pt; text-align: justify;"> t</span><span style="text-align: justify;">he</span><span style="letter-spacing: 1.5pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">analysis</span><span style="letter-spacing: 1.45pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: 1.45pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">the</span><span style="letter-spacing: 1.5pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">written</span><span style="letter-spacing: 1.45pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">productions</span><span style="letter-spacing: 1.45pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">of</span><span style="letter-spacing: 1.5pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">the</span><span style="letter-spacing: 1.45pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">students proved,</span><span style="letter-spacing: 1.45pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">the </span><span style="letter-spacing: -2.95pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">CLIL group
outperformed the non-CLIL group in relation to the written competence.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt; text-align: justify;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: 0.5pt;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0.5pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hence, it can be stated that the implementation of the
CLIL approach has a positive<span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;"> </span>effect
on the written competence in a second language. These<span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;"> </span>findings<span style="letter-spacing: 2.25pt;"> </span>are<span style="letter-spacing: 2.25pt;"> </span>limited<span style="letter-spacing: 2.25pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: 2.25pt;"> </span>this<span style="letter-spacing: 2.3pt;"> </span>particular<span style="letter-spacing: 2.3pt;"> </span>study but we can claim that there are numerous<span style="letter-spacing: 2.3pt;"> </span>studies that have drawn similar
conclusions. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Nevertheless, if we analyze the errors in the CLIL
group, we clearly see that we must keep on trying to find the most effective ways
to motivate students to write and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ease their
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>writing process.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="DE" style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">(</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Professor Silvia Corral Robles from the University of Granada has kindly shared her research paper with all of us. You can access it from <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dURhJxw1fWz1bORL8f4yqMf_XgBehvtx/view?usp=sharing">here</a>). </span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In this first post on <i>writing in the content areas, </i> I would like to highlight the importance of purpose-driven writing. Therefore, before considering how to provide students with frames to support their writing, let's begin by analyzing what type of texts our students need to write in specific content areas. Different authors classify CLIL texts into different types but for the scope of this entry I will just share a couple of tools that will be enough to foster our personal reflection on the issue: </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">the first tool is from <a href="http://www.teachit.co.uk">www.teachit.co.uk</a>, a very useful platform that <span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2b2f; text-align: left;">comprises a range of creative, engaging and effective approaches to support Secondary teachers across all subjects. You can click<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-N-dB2tsq8hBnFr3qmDJBpR6AQipeI_C/view?usp=sharing"> here </a>to see this tool on CLIL text types.</span> </span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2b2f; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">the second tool I like is included in <i>CLIL activities Cambridge University Press 2012</i> and provides all teachers with <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vT0vlnCEccx8gV1wQoLt0PSJwa7s0RyW/view?usp=sharing">an effective classification of text types, purpose and writing frames. </a> </span></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2b2f; font-family: verdana;">Once students have understood there are different text types with their different purposes, work with examples: show students good examples and ask them to think about the features that make them say it is a good piece of writing. Why not show students weak examples too? My students loved this mixture and they were able to identify why some texts are effective whereas others are not.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2b2f; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2b2f; font-family: verdana;">When we host our next online seminar, we will see how many of the aforementioned text types your students are producing or have to produce and we will provide you with a variety of writing frames that will make the task easier. For those of you who may not be familar with the concept of writing frames, you can have a look at<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cx61OKSUax72lZLPWLZQsN8bSLv-lUMn3J26obx-N0E/edit?usp=sharing"> this example for Geography and History </a> and <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e4GmLsEEer1nXu2nKauGbKFMR4bA2qignhsOG1-c6z0/edit?usp=sharing">this one for Science</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2b2f; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2b2f; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #2a2b2f; font-family: verdana;">Looking forward to knowing about your personal experience and classroom strategies so as to improve students' writing competence across the school subjects. </span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p></p>loli iglesiashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296327933268529243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082423965762563609.post-55120676214137270092022-01-12T15:46:00.071+01:002022-01-17T20:59:31.878+01:00FAT AND SKINNY QUESTIONS IN CLIL<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQxvZE-XLJ-xf00T3iu1aUQQZYkzUKWMU3o5A&usqp=CAU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="244" height="270" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQxvZE-XLJ-xf00T3iu1aUQQZYkzUKWMU3o5A&usqp=CAU" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">First things first:</span><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Happy New Year to all readers! </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I am sure you will have guessed that this post is going to focus on one of the topics for our January seminar session, i.e., teacher talk strategies to make content comprehensible for students. Undoubtedly, </span><b style="font-family: verdana;">effective questioning</b><span style="font-family: verdana;"> is one of those strategies because it enables the teacher to keep students' attention and increases learners' engagement in the class. I wrote a previous post about this topic a few years ago. You can read it <a href="https://clilingetxo.blogspot.com/2016/05/developing-thinking-skills-what.html">here</a>. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Below these lines, I would like to share my personal decalogue on Do's and Don'ts regarding effective questionning in any content area:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">1. <span class="ILfuVd" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; line-height: 24px;"><span class="hgKElc" style="padding: 0px 8px 0px 0px;">Provide students with enough time to answer your question: not every learner processes thinking at the same speed. (This was demonstrated in the early 1970s through deep research conducted by a giant in the field of Education: Mary Budd Rowe. You can access it<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jxWuPcBvmdxbmvHOxh4th6Dyd049REzz/view?usp=sharing"> here</a>. )</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">2.Try to include "fat" questions as often as possible. They will increase students' thinking skills and make room for discussion and debate among students. Do you need ideas on how to create them? I hope<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_4vW1hqFyb0d6OCEZabqMAf53eOOAEOPp9HkgVwa0wA/edit?usp=sharing"> this list </a> I have written will be useful. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">3. Do plan your questions in advance. Needless to say that you will always have to improvise some of your questions depending on the students' responses but you know that one crucial ingredient of effective teaching is planning. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">4. Avoid the "hands-up" approach as much as possible. What can you do instead? At least, I can think of the following : </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">- Ask students to prepare their answers in pairs or small groups after having given the question some thought.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">- Ask a question, pause for some seconds for all students to think of an answer and then call a student's name at random.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">5. Encourage students' questions and replies to each other's questions and responses.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">6. Give positive feedback even if students' answers are not on the right track. Try giving some clues or examples so that the student realizes his answer was not accurate and starts a self-correcting process. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">7. Avoid excessive praise since this may discourage other students who are not so skillful at answering. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">8. Focus on one question at a time. Thus, you will be able to offer the specific language support they need for their responses.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">9. Create a trustworthy learning environment so that students do not feel anxiety if they do not provide you with the right answer.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">10. Show that you are interested in students' responses. Your facial expressions and non-verbal language in general are bound to be helpful for learners to gain trust and improve their reponse while they keep on talking. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I said I would offer my personal decalogue so my post should finish here. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Looking forward to knowing about your questioning strategies in our seminar session on January 18th.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Further reading:</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/professional-learning/teacher-quality-and-accreditation/strong-start-great-teachers/refining-practice/teacher-questioning/effective-teacher-questioning">https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/professional-learning/teacher-quality-and-accreditation/strong-start-great-teachers/refining-practice/teacher-questioning/effective-teacher-questioning</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>loli iglesiashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296327933268529243noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082423965762563609.post-74879444819050490822021-12-17T19:26:00.009+01:002021-12-19T10:24:29.718+01:00CLILSTORE: A store of copyleft CLIL materials<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://scontent-mad1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/121005901_2916440111790651_7859675713433659021_n.png?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=y3zz7YAlaTMAX-YG5UC&_nc_ht=scontent-mad1-1.xx&oh=00_AT9qXHaW0uphovalhj3HAwYKLHWPSa3dFR9eKAFtinuWAg&oe=61E39AEE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="800" height="208" src="https://scontent-mad1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/121005901_2916440111790651_7859675713433659021_n.png?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=y3zz7YAlaTMAX-YG5UC&_nc_ht=scontent-mad1-1.xx&oh=00_AT9qXHaW0uphovalhj3HAwYKLHWPSa3dFR9eKAFtinuWAg&oe=61E39AEE" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span>Next Tuesday we will meet for our last CLIL seminar session in 2021 and we will focus on preparing students across the curriculum for their final term oral presentations. As in every online session, we will peep into the most useful ICT resources to help your students with their oral outcomes. Besides, we will also talk about new CLIL units which you can access for free from different sources. One of these sources deserves special attention due to its wide range of units for different language levels and topics: <a href="https://clilstore.eu/clilstore/clilstore_ing.php" target="_blank">Clilstore</a></span><span>.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union and partners from several countries, including Spain (Valencia) have worked hard to offer all CLIL teachers this amazing platform where you are bound to find motivational resources for your classrooms. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Clilstore uses <a href="https://multidict.net/wordlink/" style="color: #4488cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Wordlink</a>, a tool which links arbitrary webpages automatically, word by word with online dictionaries. And Wordlink in turn uses <a href="https://multidict.net/multidict/" style="color: #4488cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Multidict</a>, a multiple dictionary lookup facility which makes use of freely available online dictionaries. Both Wordlink and Multidict were developed as part of the European funded <a href="https://www.languages.dk/pools-t/" style="color: #4488cc; text-decoration-line: none;">POOLS-T</a> project (2008-2010) and their development is continuing as part of the present COOL project.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">This video shows how both students and teachers can enjoy the full range of resources provided by Clilstore: </span></p><p style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/smieVsu2GTU" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">My </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">heartfelt congratulations to all participants in Clilstore project. There is no doubt that their hard work has clearly paid off. </span></span></p>loli iglesiashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296327933268529243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082423965762563609.post-74303310999352632092021-11-21T19:35:00.010+01:002021-11-22T18:45:29.723+01:00 25th NOVEMBER, INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.cwu.org.au/img/10648" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="785" height="220" src="http://www.cwu.org.au/img/10648" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Is this the first time your students hear about this date? Ask them and if this
is the case, start from <a href="https://eslholidaylessons.com/11/day_for_the_elimination_of_violence_against_women.html"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a>. Let students read the
introductory passage to the lesson plan and after reading it, ask them to
answer the following question in pairs:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">"Why is November the
25th the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against
Women?" </span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Once students know about the ultimate goal of the international campaign to end gender-based violence, tell them that you are going to focus on <i>"Teen
Dating Violence"<b>. </b></i>Below these lines, I will be providing
you with different activities for you to choose depending on the number
of sessions you wish to spend<b><i>. </i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">One
of the many ways to work on this topic is through interactive resources. A very
powerful<b><i> </i></b>website<b><i> </i></b>is<b><i> </i></b><a href="https://thatsnotcool.com/"><span style="color: blue;">"That's not cool"</span></a>: it <span style="background: white;">is dedicated to decreasing teen dating violence due to
technology, and increasing awareness for healthy teen relationships
online. The same as in the previous stage, you can start with a question:
"What is the difference between a healthy and an unhealthy
relationship?" Ask them to brainstorm ideas in pairs and
represent them in a visual way they choose. For example:</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gr0V0o0ixgM/VlTRSTIpRXI/AAAAAAAAByM/AXVhV_1aXdU/s400/healthyrvsu.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="294" data-original-width="400" height="294" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gr0V0o0ixgM/VlTRSTIpRXI/AAAAAAAAByM/AXVhV_1aXdU/w400-h294/healthyrvsu.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;">After sharing their concepts of healthy versus unhealthy relationships,
tell them that they are going to play an interactive game called </span><a href="http://www.coolnotcoolquiz.org/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: blue;">"Coolnotcool"</span></a><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;">.
This interactive quiz engages teens in a dialogue about teen dating
abuse by putting the power in their hands. By doing the quizz, students
will review some fictional dating scenarios and decide for
themselves whether those interactions are ‘cool’ or ‘not cool.’ </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">If you are into Q & A, you can explore the </span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><a href="https://thatsnotcool.com/speak-up-about-unhealthy-relationships/"><span style="color: blue;">Speak Up</span></a><span style="background: white;"> section
from </span><a href="https://thatsnotcool.com/."><span style="color: blue;">"That's not cool"</span></a><span style="background: white;"> and let students spend some time reading the
questions and answers. Encourage them to take a stand on the issues and add a
question to the list on the page. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">For those of you who are ready
to develop some more sessions on this topic, which would be well
worthwhile, <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IPWQ3hw94x2gudWN2Wu_HoRu80YgeI5_/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">this pdf</a></span> contains several activities which
will enable students to gain an insight into healthy relationships - the
ultimate prevention against abuse.</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p></div>loli iglesiashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296327933268529243noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082423965762563609.post-38394533492841160722021-11-12T13:26:00.029+01:002021-11-14T12:26:36.161+01:00CLIL AND INCLUSIVE EDUCATION<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/black-history-picture-id1208283946?b=1&k=20&m=1208283946&s=170667a&w=0&h=cPXpMhN4Xzx6zdgMWOFmbHIHebGDxhagL75vdzMje6Y=" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="279" data-original-width="619" height="180" src="https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/black-history-picture-id1208283946?b=1&k=20&m=1208283946&s=170667a&w=0&h=cPXpMhN4Xzx6zdgMWOFmbHIHebGDxhagL75vdzMje6Y=" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">We are living in a world where content knowledge, communication, cognitive skills, and culture are key for every citizen. Therefore, <b>all </b>students are in need of opportunities that help them develop the aforementioned. Why am I starting this blog entry like this? Well, I would like to do my bit and contribute to debunk the idea that CLIL is elitist. As a matter of fact, </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">CLIL seems
to </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">curb the influence of students’ </span><span style="font-family: verdana; text-align: left;">SES (Socioeconomic status) on
their language learning and motivation, thus creating a more inclusive learning
context.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I am aware that the only way to shed some light into the question of whether CLIL is at odds with inclusion or not is through empirical evidence so I have decided to share the latest research on the issue with the readers of this blog. That is why today I would like to recommend this article by Professor María Luisa Pérez Cañado: </span><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09571736.2019.1645872?journalCode=rllj20" style="font-family: verdana;">"CLIL and elitism: myth or reality?"</a><span style="font-family: verdana;">, in </span><i style="font-family: verdana;">The Language Learning Journal.</i><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">No doubt her thorough research will toss most common fears aside. </span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Apart from latest research on the topic, experts on the field of CLIL and inclusive education are offering webinars to let teachers know about the way to develop good CLIL practice for all learners. This is the case with a webinar organized by Pearson: "</span><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #212529; font-family: verdana;">the 4 C's of CLIL with Inclusion in Mind</span><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #212529; font-family: verdana;"> ". On November 24th and 25th Jennifer Schmidt will provide participants with </span><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #212529; font-family: verdana;">suggestions on how </span><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: verdana; font-weight: bolder;">ALL students can improve language and cognitive skills</span><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #212529; font-family: verdana;"> through CLIL. You can read the objectives of the webinar and register <a href="http://webinars.pearson.es/Looking%20at%20the%204%20C's%20of%20CLIL%20with%20Inclusion%20in%20Mind.html?utm_source=webELT&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=webinarsNov21&fbclid=IwAR0FQF3UZ0Ktb3tyGAcGW_vj2VrP60XyZtYTukybveG3-AgR_6JRZaTXXME">here.</a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #212529;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">From these lines, my most heartfelt thanks to Maria Luisa Pérez Cañado and Jennifer Schmidt for their invaluable contribution to such a crucial matter as Inclusive Education is . </span></span></p><p><br /></p>loli iglesiashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296327933268529243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082423965762563609.post-30103550523592654302021-10-28T15:00:00.005+02:002021-11-03T16:41:00.018+01:00DICTIONARIES FOR LEARNERS USING ENGLISH TO STUDY OTHER SUBJECTS<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTa_XMnPJ6z91b0eg9LZJIU_ZzGvyypKdVKAg&usqp=CAU" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTa_XMnPJ6z91b0eg9LZJIU_ZzGvyypKdVKAg&usqp=CAU" width="225" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Our second seminar session will take place on November 16th and we will try to give a clear insight into the most useful ways to make students acquire subject-specific vocabulary. Right now, I would like to share <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/0Bw1j_beVDRsVQzdUNFRvMzE1VnM/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=108885484746618322474&resourcekey=0-nhNUfmf71GyVshr3IQHGzQ&rtpof=true&sd=true" target="_blank">this list</a> of online dictionaries with all CLIL teachers and I would also like to let you know about <a href="https://elt.oup.com/catalogue/items/global/dictionaries/9780194406147?WT.ac=ww-osd-4e-left-&cc=global&selLanguage=en" target="_blank">the fourth edition of Oxford Student's Dictionary</a>. This dictionary is aimed at <span style="background-color: white;">intermediate to advanced learners of English. It has a particular focus on curricular vocabulary and includes the words you need to study other subjects such as Art, Computing, Science, Geography, History, Literature, Maths, Sport and much more.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">You can access the curricular videos and 360-degree interactive images that accompany the dictionary on <a href="https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/about/students" target="_blank">this page.</a></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Using dictionaries is an essential part of the process when we talk about vocabulary instructional strategies. However, providing a description or an explanation of the term is only the first step of the process. It goes beyond the scope of a blog entry to analyze such a process so we can recap by saying that reading and instruction on subject-specific vocabulary are the key to overcoming students' difficulties with academic content. This is easy to say but how can it be done? Fortunately, there is what could be called "a toolbox of vocabulary strategies " that work and you will be provided with them throughout our seminar sessions. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.missdecarbo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/quote-1-vocab-post.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="800" height="266" src="https://www.missdecarbo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/quote-1-vocab-post.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Looking forward to meeting you online on November 16th.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>loli iglesiashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296327933268529243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082423965762563609.post-28864947871832135952021-10-13T10:10:00.006+02:002021-11-12T20:32:30.125+01:00CLIL SEMINAR AT SECONDARY LEVEL 2021-2022 (ONLINE)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQqQ6R-xo7D7JzbdesJ8dGoKG0SBL9-bY0xFQ&usqp=CAU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="192" data-original-width="263" height="234" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQqQ6R-xo7D7JzbdesJ8dGoKG0SBL9-bY0xFQ&usqp=CAU" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dear CLIL lovers</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">It is a true pleasure to let you know about an important new feature of the CLIL Seminar at Secondary level: it will be held online on a monthly basis so that teachers from Bizkaia, Araba and Gipuzkoa can take part in it. Thus, we will create a poweful network that enables all of us to improve our teaching practice. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Please, follow <a href="http://b07.berritzeguneak.net/eu/inscripcion.php?codigo=2170B07M09">this link</a> to register as soon as possible because the first session will be starting on October 26th. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">You can read about the objectives of the seminar sessions and calendar below these lines:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>OBJECTIVES</b> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: rgb(246, 246, 246); color: #606060; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">- To help teachers with their daily practice by
facilitating materials and ICT tools for the different subjects they are
teaching in English</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">- To work on academic language and subject
specific vocabulary</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">- To pave the way for the development of
pluriliteracies across the curriculum</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;"><span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">- To give teachers useful information about
conferences, different types of events and webinars related to their classroom
practice and professional development</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
</p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span style="background-color: white;"><br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">- To provide teachers with a network so that
they can share classroom practice and materials with other teachers</span></span></span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #606060;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background: rgb(246, 246, 246);"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f6f6f6; color: #606060; font-family: verdana;"><b>CALENDAR</b></span></p><p><br style="background-color: #f6f6f6; color: #606060; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">OCTOBER 26th</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">NOVEMBER 16th</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">DECEMBER 21st</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">JANUARY 18th</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">FEBRUARY 22nd</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">MARCH 15th</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">APRIL 5th</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">MAY 24th</span></span></p><p><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; color: #606060;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">TIMETABLE</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">From 15:00 to 17:00 p.m. on Tuesday afternoons</span></p>loli iglesiashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296327933268529243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082423965762563609.post-78171979934363171002021-06-02T13:52:00.026+02:002021-06-21T17:12:17.281+02:00DEVELOPING CRITICAL THINKING THROUGH CLIL<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTxzh-8RH5SDMCIxmZS3mCqpE5iBam7USy7Mg&usqp=CAU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="146" data-original-width="346" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTxzh-8RH5SDMCIxmZS3mCqpE5iBam7USy7Mg&usqp=CAU" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><br />
Today I would like to focus my post on critical thinking skills in any content
area. By now all of you know that I am a firm believer in the importance
of appropriate classroom questions. Following critical thinking
essentials, I will try to show you some powerful evidence to support my
belief. In order to do this, I will share the outcomes of a recent
research entitled " Effective questioning in CLIL classrooms: empowering
thinking". </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">The research
was conducted by Professor Rebecca Valverde. I would like to
congratulate her on this powerful research and I highly recommend that
should read it by entering <a href="https://academic.oup.com/eltj/article/73/4/367/5541218" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2288bb;">this link</span></a>. In short, the research aimed
at determining whether stimulating higher-order thinking in CLIL classrooms </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt;"> would result in a significant improvement in
student outcomes. The results showed that this methodological intervention
succeeded in its aim, as a marked improvement in student responses was
achieved. These findings highlight the value of optimizing the use of questions
to foster critical thinking and empower students for the knowledge economy in
which we live.</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt;">Rebecca's reader-friendly paper includes a wide range of examples for
students aged 9 and 10 years old. I reckon that you will be able to adapt them
to fit your Secondary classroom contexts but I have written <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zpG30fwrnJ5gJSjF9szcRyPdQmZevgPm/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2288bb;">this worksheet</span></a> with
some examples for different content areas at Secondary level. I hope you will
find it useful. </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt;">Last but not least, keep in mind what the greatest critical thinker
said: </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2a2a2a; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"> </span><a href="https://www.enjuris.com/students/images/guide-to-the-socratic-method.jpg" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Merriweather, serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="800" height="200" src="https://www.enjuris.com/students/images/guide-to-the-socratic-method.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Merriweather, serif;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></p>loli iglesiashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296327933268529243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082423965762563609.post-4648303067904514542021-05-10T16:13:00.004+02:002021-05-18T17:02:38.143+02:00LEARNING RESOURCES FROM MUSEUMS TO CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL MUSEUMS' DAY ON MAY 18th<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRWm4XUdAKHBdNm0tuV5kocz0n1uS-oIN-MwVHNoC0UfkLxwidViGBzEXyxzLpyT-lsd_M&usqp=CAU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="183" height="320" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRWm4XUdAKHBdNm0tuV5kocz0n1uS-oIN-MwVHNoC0UfkLxwidViGBzEXyxzLpyT-lsd_M&usqp=CAU" width="213" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div style="text-align: justify;">International Museums' Day will be celebrated on May 18th. Fortunately, we will be able to "travel" from Getxo to Bilbao and visit our museums: the Fine Arts Museum, the Guggenheim Myuseum and many others. </div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">From these lines, I would like to suggest that you should enter<a href="https://learning.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/learning-resources/" target="_blank"> this wonderful site </a>and choose the activities you prefer to support your curriculum topics. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">To make your search easier, enter </span><a href="https://learning.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/resources/" style="font-family: verdana;">here </a><span style="font-family: verdana;">and browse by key stage, subject and format.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZhThQMxLC4" target="_blank">This video</a> is another option for you if you want your students to learn about museums while having a good laugh. </span></p>
<br />loli iglesiashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296327933268529243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082423965762563609.post-66576074054820079722021-05-02T19:24:00.004+02:002021-05-03T16:09:34.908+02:00THE SIXTH SYMPOSIUM ON CLIL IN THE ADIGE VALLEY<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://mcusercontent.com/1e41a3c3a9c3250672551f1a5/images/b862b7f6-f5a6-4126-9c80-7532f74f6509.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="249" data-original-width="800" height="99" src="https://mcusercontent.com/1e41a3c3a9c3250672551f1a5/images/b862b7f6-f5a6-4126-9c80-7532f74f6509.png" width="320" /></a></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The TESOL Italy Val d'Adige-Etschtal Local Group invites all of us to the online event The sixth Symposium on CLIL in the Adige Valley "From International to Local" co-organized and hosted by the Department of Humanities and Philosophy of Trento University . It will take place on Friday May 14th 2021 from 14:00 to 16:00 (CET) via Zoom.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">You can access the flyer <a href="https://labur.eus/HDVt0" target="_blank">here</a>. In order to register for the event for free, click <a href="https://labur.eus/L7VPs" target="_blank">here</a> and choose the promotional memebership option. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">My heartfelt thanks to Jennifer Hill, coordinator of the Local group, for sharing this wonderful event with us. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div>loli iglesiashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296327933268529243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082423965762563609.post-88955249816304517902021-04-16T16:42:00.004+02:002021-04-16T20:19:21.865+02:00SOL'S 30th Anniversary Festival<p> <a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uBFj6uF00f8/YHmgk1sm43I/AAAAAAAAMNs/pCl9iBODfEgmbYETBJjX2KU5GnI7iUKgwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="471" data-original-width="627" height="301" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uBFj6uF00f8/YHmgk1sm43I/AAAAAAAAMNs/pCl9iBODfEgmbYETBJjX2KU5GnI7iUKgwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h301/image.png" width="400" /></a></p><br /><p></p><p> <span style="font-family: verdana;">Dear CLILers: </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Keith Kelly has sent Factworld members this e-mail and I am copying it below these lines so that you can know about a superb initiative related to CLIL: </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span class="im"><i><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6pt; text-align: justify;">I'm going to be doing a talk on CLIL Projects for a fund-raising event on Monday. If you are free and interested, you can register via this link:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6pt; text-align: justify;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bit.ly/3g8iPzV&source=gmail&ust=1618670079659000&usg=AFQjCNExEVK16yUQ67FTHzVAWpU0Ea2tuA" href="https://bit.ly/3g8iPzV" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3g8iPzV</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6pt; text-align: justify;">It's free, but donations are welcome at the Just Giving page link in the advert <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.justgiving.com/campaign/SOL2021&source=gmail&ust=1618670079659000&usg=AFQjCNHH49x6ohrd1k1izR4hG2aE8K-lnA" href="http://www.justgiving.com/campaign/SOL2021" target="_blank">www.justgiving.com/campaign/<wbr></wbr>SOL2021</a><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6pt; text-align: justify;">SOL - Share One Language is a tremendous institution which has been offering accessible opportunities to teachers and learners for many years, and the current pandemic circumstances have made things extremely difficult for them to keep things afloat.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 6pt; text-align: justify;">Please share if you have friends and colleagues who might be interested to join the rich programme of talks, and / or might contribute.</p></i></span></div></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thank you very much for sharing this with us, Keith. </span></p>loli iglesiashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296327933268529243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082423965762563609.post-56952564508436346192021-03-24T19:39:00.004+01:002021-03-30T20:38:35.217+02:00The Psychological Experience of Integrating Content and Language<p> <a href="https://www.multilingual-matters.com/images/localjackets/m/9781788924283.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="250" src="https://www.multilingual-matters.com/images/localjackets/m/9781788924283.jpg" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.multilingual-matters.com/">Multilingual Matters </a> has recently published a <span style="background-color: white; color: #24272d; letter-spacing: 0.28px;"> book which brings together a wide range of empirical chapters on both the psychological strains and benefits related to teaching and learning a subject through a second or other language.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #24272d; letter-spacing: 0.28px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The studies encompass a range of areas, such as Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), Foreign Language Medium of Instruction (FMI), bilingual education and other related approaches to integrating content and language.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #24272d; letter-spacing: 0.28px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">They feature a variety of psychological constructs, including identity, self-confidence, motivation, self-concept, teacher and learner beliefs, affect, anxiety, stress, mindsets, attributions and well-being, from the perspectives of both teachers and learners. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #24272d; letter-spacing: 0.28px;">I reckon you will smile when you see that we have been talking about the aforementioned issues in our CLIL seminar sessions. For instance, Professor </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #24272d; letter-spacing: 0.28px;">Erwin M. Gierlinger has written a very clarifying chapter on one of our main concerns: "L2 Confidence in CLIL Teaching: A Tale of Two Teachers".</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #24272d; letter-spacing: 0.28px;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Therefore, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in ensuring that teachers and students are properly supported and that their experiences of integrated content and language settings enable them to come to fruition. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">You may wish to have a look at the </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kHsKFA5dnhAkk1GFqvRpUJkUIv9wqoYW/view?usp=sharing" style="font-family: verdana;">contents </a><span style="font-family: verdana;">of the book before buying it and before we can have the chance to meet again. When we do, I suggest starting with professor Gierlinger's chapter because once again he gives a very clear insight into the issue of L2 confidence in CLIL contexts. </span></p>loli iglesiashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296327933268529243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082423965762563609.post-69770838623885602612021-03-06T11:40:00.023+01:002021-03-08T12:43:55.958+01:00ESSENTIAL FEATURES OF CLIL MATERIALS<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQLaxC4iLque9H6UR1siHrnpSp-LVX8xVhFOQ&usqp=CAU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="280" height="206" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQLaxC4iLque9H6UR1siHrnpSp-LVX8xVhFOQ&usqp=CAU" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.euskadi.eus/informazioa/eleaniztasunerantz-proiektuak-eta-prestakuntza/web01-a3helebi/eu/">Multilingual
call 2021-2022 </a>has just been published and this means that there will
be new schools joining us in implementing subjects through English. Yesterday
I received some telephone calls from teachers who are concerned
about the most adequate materials for CLIL lessons. If I had to
describe the key to effective CLIL materials, I would say something like
this: choose those materials that allow students to develop real-world tasks in
the target language. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Going deeper into the
features of CLIL materials without breaking the scope of a blog
entry, we could say that the following ingredients are a must: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">· Each
unit should include explicit correlation between content
and language objectives .<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">· Input-
output scaffolding tools (On the one hand, key language support to
enable students reach the content objectives. On the othe hand, visual support
such as illustrations with labels and captions that are
closely related to subject-specific vocabulary and objectives)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">· Content-area
text types which are carefully chosen and always accompanied by content-area
literacy strategies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">· Graphic
organisers like Venn diagrams, tables, and flow charts which help
all learners to support both active reading and written
or oral presentation of content by students.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">· ICT applications
which result in a virtual ‘hands on’ format that
increase motivation among students through active engagement in the
learning process.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">· Integration of
all language skills throughout the CLIL unit.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;">· </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Cognition skills are
gradually developed </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">· Formative assessment tasks
are included.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">· Teachers' notes include
everything the teacher needs for a good CLIL approach. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">In my view, the
aforementioned features can be put into
practice in any content area at
Primary and Secondary levels. I am looking forward to letting you know about
the "How-To-Do-It" after the Easter break. During March we will
chiefly devote our energy to planting the seeds of multilingual projects
for the next academic years at our schools.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">However, I will not wait
till April to provide you with some more food-for-thought on the
topic by recommending an inspiring book on CLIL materials by
Amanda McLouglin, CLIL materials writer and teacher trainer : “How to
write CLIL materials”, published on February 25th 2021. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You can read about it </span><a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1071160" style="font-size: 12pt;">here</a><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">From these lines, I would
like to express my congratulations to Amanda on this book
for her clear and accurate insight into CLIL materials. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p></div>loli iglesiashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296327933268529243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082423965762563609.post-91851821880820721012021-02-09T17:48:00.004+01:002021-02-09T17:48:52.424+01:00International Day of Women and Girls in Science, 11 February<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://knowinsiders.com/stores/news_dataimages/minhlt/022021/01/13/3554_international-day-of-women-and-girls-in-science-1.jpg?rt=20210201133555" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="720" height="225" src="https://knowinsiders.com/stores/news_dataimages/minhlt/022021/01/13/3554_international-day-of-women-and-girls-in-science-1.jpg?rt=20210201133555" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, let's do our best as
educators to address and transform the existing gender gap: a</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">t
present, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3082423965762563609/9185182188082072101"><span style="background: white; color: black; letter-spacing: -.25pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">less than 30 per cent</span></a><span style="background: white; letter-spacing: -0.25pt;"> of researchers
worldwide are women. According to UNESCO data , only around 30 per cent of
all female students select STEM-related fields in higher education. Globally,
female students’ enrolment is particularly low in ICT (3 per cent), Natural
Science, Mathematics and Statistics (5 per cent) and in Engineering,
manufacturing and construction (8 per cent).</span></span></div></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">From these lines, I will try to help
teachers who read me by offering several classroom proposals:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"> In the Autumn of 2019, <a href="https://hastingsthrives.org/" target="_blank">The Hastings Academy </a>and Robsack Wood
Academy worked on songs about Women Scientists. Songwriter Anna Page
worked together with students and they created some inspiring compositions. Among them, there is a song that has touched my
heart. It is called "Women who were scientists" and I
would say that it conveys a very powerful message. If you want to
know why, listen to the<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aYBCUnPFFyK0FYsNsTH-fYp3YD1LQdb1/view?usp=sharing"><span style="color: blue;"> audio file</span></a> and analyze
<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/13IBcpQLvsOElnnsdrpkjxZhvGYsT10gE/view?usp=sharing"><span style="color: blue;">the lyrics</span></a> . I suggest that
students should listen to the song and get familiar with the rhythm
pattern. Then, you could ask students to
work in pairs and write a stanza about another famous woman who was
forgotten till now. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-W9tvwInACpU/YCK6Z5uKOdI/AAAAAAAALw4/545u9_Vzkdk5RG-88-GZbLLT4DSHZw2jwCLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="189" height="400" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-W9tvwInACpU/YCK6Z5uKOdI/AAAAAAAALw4/545u9_Vzkdk5RG-88-GZbLLT4DSHZw2jwCLcBGAsYHQ/w283-h400/image.png" width="283" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The play "Women scientists: past, present and future" was
premiered in March 2016 at the University of Seville. Although it is
in Spanish, they have kindly provided us with </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vq0QYJoMamSRGb-tcNiR5GA4Dt4iMIdI/view?usp=sharing" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">a comic</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">, </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ByPPVrU8Af7asGkxeM1bXUU9FaDRmhD9/view?usp=sharing" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">a didactical
guide </span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">and</span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/14xu0DLbA3PReMk9SvgoB1gl2AKdX_pm1/view?usp=sharing" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"> a quiz</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">. </span></li></ul><p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">Last but not least, <a href=" https://sites.google.com/view/makingwomenvisible/home?authuser=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">making women visible site </span></a> is
a collaborative project in four languages which offers a wide variety of
activities in order to help teachers to foster women's visibility at our
schools. Among the inspiring proposals they offer, I would
highlight <a href="https://www.luanagames.com/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">a video game and a card
game. </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Once again, thank you very much for the great effort you make in order to let our students be aware of the need to bridge the gender gap. Please, write to me through the comment section on this blog so that I can know about your students' reactions to the proposal you choose to celebrate February 11th. </span></p><p></p>loli iglesiashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296327933268529243noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082423965762563609.post-2976904215513925292021-01-22T14:57:00.007+01:002021-01-22T16:40:22.667+01:00LFEE CLIL resources<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lfee.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/LFEE-Banner.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="241" data-original-width="353" src="https://lfee.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/LFEE-Banner.png" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><span color="windowtext"><a href="https://lfee.net/">LFEE team, Languages for Education inEurope</a>,</span> has shown their expertise in the
field of education through the development of several key programmes
which include Developing International Projects for Schools (DIPS).
Regarding recent projects, I would like to congratulate them on <span color="windowtext"><a href="https://lfee.net/elapse/output-2-resources/">ELAPSE: Embedding Languages Across Primary and Secondary Education</a> (2018-2020). </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">The resources you
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>will <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>find <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by
clicking the link above put into practice the CLIL principles we have been
analyzing in our seminar sessions and they include some features which are usually not available on free platforms, such as <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>short scripts for the target language that the
teacher might want to use as well as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>sound files which provide models of those scripted items. </span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 16.6pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">The lesson plans have been designed and collated by native
speaker teachers for learners in upper Primary and lower Secondary schools. The
recommended age and stage is indicated in the Lesson Plans. Some are for a
sequence of lessons, whereas others are just for single lessons, and all
the resources can be adapted to fit your individual teaching context.</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">If you want to know about ELAPSE, there is a recording of the webinar which took place in November 2020. You can follow it below these lines:
</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Rxisd7I4NDg" width="560"></iframe></span></div></div>
loli iglesiashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296327933268529243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082423965762563609.post-76713978504799431012020-12-23T21:31:00.038+01:002021-01-11T08:35:56.286+01:00The CLIL Wheel<p> </p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Open Sans", "Trebuchet MS", arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Open Sans", "Trebuchet MS", arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRO4s9teOsIgFW4ay0tJj7WK76TZlnCNf38Ew&usqp=CAU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="146" data-original-width="346" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRO4s9teOsIgFW4ay0tJj7WK76TZlnCNf38Ew&usqp=CAU" /></a></div><br /><div><span><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">Before starting our Christmas break, I would like to let you know about a
new visual representation of CLIL. It has been developed by Alexandra
Zaparucha, a Polish teacher and teacher trainer. It is called the
CLIL Wheel. Alexandra has tried to combine the more traditional
understanding of CLIL (4Cs) with the 10 CLIL Parameters. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">The CLIL Wheel does not favour
one approach at the expense of the other. On the contrary, it combines the two
in full harmony by matching the individual Cs of CLIL with the appropriate
parameters. In the end, both the 4Cs and the 10 parameters describe what is
going on during a CLIL lesson, but from a slightly different angle.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;"> </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">Alexandra has kindly shared
these A-3 posters with us:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">- </span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O9mjeNNcnMu9Ndg0yvLE71NUUtOzZEFU/view?usp=sharing"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Here</span></a></span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"> you can
download the CLIL wheel</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">- </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R-Im0mj3-uWDXjAlvmpHqa4G4xafIHBq/view?usp=sharing">This</a></span></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;"> is the
poster that shows the 10 parameters. </span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"> </span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">If</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"> you follow</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLS7pyeXqo8&t=387s"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> this link</span></a></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">, you will find the recording of her talk on her
approach <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">for the
39th TESOL France International Colloquium, which took place last November
22nd. It is a showcase of the CLIL Wheel and its 10 Parameters, supported by
examples. I am sure that you will find it both clarifying and inspiring.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #030303; font-size: 12pt;">This year is coming to an end so I would like to thank
you for reading and making this forum a wonderful meeting point for CLIL-ing
together for another year and I would also like to wish you all: <i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #030303; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-style: italic; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><o:p><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!</span></o:p></span><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ff00fe; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div></span></span></span></div>loli iglesiashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296327933268529243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082423965762563609.post-68507437467661618092020-12-03T13:03:00.015+01:002020-12-07T18:54:09.494+01:00Building rapport in the remote classroom<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTXt10uq0Tds546wnRG-SDVvNiBpOyu8QhjRg&usqp=CAU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="169" data-original-width="298" height="181" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTXt10uq0Tds546wnRG-SDVvNiBpOyu8QhjRg&usqp=CAU" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"> </span><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;">
Cambridge University Press organized <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/gb/cambridgeenglish/events/global-schools-festiva"><span color="windowtext">Global Schools festival</span></a> from November
24th till November 26th. The talks focused on trying to give an answer to the
big questions about the future of teaching and learning in schools around the
world. If you missed the sessions you can now watch them on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=global+schools+festival+cambridge+university+press"><span color="windowtext">Global Schools festival YouTube playlist. </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">I would higly recommend you to watch Nik Peachey's
session on "Building rapport in the remopte classroom".</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana;">The session covers a number of issues related to building rapport with and
among remote students. This includes:</span></p><ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Setting up
the webcam and working with the visible space effectively.</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Being aware
of how you use your voice</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif">Building
remote teams so that students work collaboratively</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
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positive classroom dynamics</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
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importance of socialisation</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
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with students</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
</ul><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: ES;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> Nik Peachey provides teachers with p</span></span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249);">ractical tips and advice as well as some suggestions for activities that
help promote a stronger interpersonal connection in the remote classroom.</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"> </span><span> You can watch his session<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55HSAII-ito"> here</a>.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
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loli iglesiashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296327933268529243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3082423965762563609.post-31482125131510321312020-11-24T15:51:00.001+01:002020-11-24T15:52:38.064+01:00International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25th. Raising awareness through a photo-story contest <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/styles/banner-image-style-27-10/public/eliminate-violence-women.jpg?itok=8XJdBBJu" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="296" data-original-width="800" height="149" src="https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/styles/banner-image-style-27-10/public/eliminate-violence-women.jpg?itok=8XJdBBJu" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In order to support the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, as part of the activities within the</span><a href="http://shiftingwalls.eu/" style="font-family: verdana;"> shiftingwalls EU project,</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> the University of Valladolid </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">has organized an International Photo-story contest to raise awareness on gender-based violence within society. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Students can send a short original text (minimum 10 and maximum 300 words) plus an original creative picture which illustrates the idea of the text no later than 11th December.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Everybody can participate, as long as you are at least 14 years old. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">You can find prizes and competition lines <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PAlOPRDsme_wisXG4xC5FJWrOdJMNV3MRaxRMFHq2Ug/edit?usp=sharing">here</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Contact: 25nphotostories@gmail.com</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">I would like to encourage those of you who follow this blog and implement English, ICT, Arts, Literature and Ethical values to let your students know about this competition on November 25th and talk them into writing their stories and creating their picture.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">From these lines, my heartfelt congratulations to the University of Valladolid on this initiative, which is bound to be enthusiastically welcome by Secondary students.</span></p>loli iglesiashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296327933268529243noreply@blogger.com0