Composition 2

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 assess their learning?

Teachers often comment about the demands of the national or regional curriculum and the limit it supposes to plan another interesting issues for the students. Besides these requirements, the time that the teacher has to develop the language subjects and the non-language subjects is very tight.

Due to these aspects, some schools are adopting a CLIL context in order to foster the language skills by studying specific contents of a non-language subject.

In kindergarten level, the contents that the teachers must teach are not divided into subjects but also this education pretends to develop the learning-teaching process globally. For this reason, the problem of the limitations by the demands of the curriculum, which is explained above, it is not so serious.

The kindergarten teachers should ensure that children have their basic needs met. Also, children must acquire habits in order to perform with autonomy: eating, working, problem solving.

If I think about the most important thing to teach my pupils, I would like to foster speaking language skills. To put this into practice, I could organize workshops dedicated to promoting the language, such as making stories through a cube game, that is, throwing cubes to include the elements of the story; recitation of poems; guessing games; role-playing of different situations.

Regarding to the assessment of these aspects, it must include knowledge, competences, skills, attitudes and discourse practices for language and content. I believe that the best technique to do the assessment is by a rubric. It is a great resource for children because, previously the development of each activity, they can know the aspects that we are going to assess. Also, this way to evaluate fosters autonomy offering to children an active role through self and peers assessment.