IF YOU WERE NOT LIMITED BY THE DEMANDS OF THE NATIONAL/REGIONAL CURRICULUM, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU WOULD TEACH YOUR STUDENTS ABOUT YOUR SUBJECT (IN A CLIL CONTEXT). HOW WOULD YOU ASSES THEIR LEARNING?

If I have this hypothetical situation, I think that I would organise more team groups and more experienced activities. I would focus in the process rather than in the content, the final achievement. This way, I would arranged my activities prioritizing one contents over others.

For example, in CLIL context, we have to use four principles in my subject, community development.

CULTURE:

            I would visit different events that it happens in our community: cultural events,  festivities, to know the traditional crafts, to talk about reference people, to be in a dairy activities in associations, socio-cultural centers… I would find interesting  that students could establish interaction among people from other communities. Also, I would be interested in foreign people who speak English to practice one another.

COMMUNICATION:

            As a consequence, the culture content is related to  communication content. They are directly related to. I would recommend to speak to native speakers: teachers, adults teacher, immigrants, other students from other schools or highschool. It would be wonderful to create videos about these experiences and we can explain about them in English.

COGNITION:

            Once we have created the atmosphere and the context to speak and establish relation with the community´s activities, students will learn the theoretical issues in English.   In this way we can make sure that the pupils have learnt the theory , based on their experience.

CONTENT:

            I would have compulsory content on the one hand, because it´s necessary to understand the subject: the community (and their parts) and the social resources. And, on the other hand, I would have optional contents depending on type of activities we would do. I would have time to attend students who are  interested in different topics in my subject. Students would choose what type of contents are more attractive for them