Professional Knowledge and Understanding

Curriculum And Pedagogy

  • Understand the wider role that languages and literacies play in teaching and learning.
  • Plan for effective language teaching and learning activities which support change and development within and across the curriculum.
  • Know how language learning can be integrated within and across the curriculum (interdisciplinary learning)
  • Know how to include a variety of resources, including digital and online tools, to promote language and literacy related skills and understanding.
  • Create transparent links between language(s) and literacies in and for learning
  • Create inclusive teaching and learning activities which consider the linguistic and cultural backgrounds of the learners in the classroom and the wider school

Professional responsibilities

  • Develop teaching practices which support intercultural awareness across the curriculum.
  • Understand, critically engage with and apply underlying theories and policies to guide transformative practices and promote plurilingualism and pluriliteracies.
  • Draw on linguistic resources which promote and foster further language learning and intercultural awareness within the wider learning community: including caregivers and the local community
  • Experience what it is to be a language learner and user.

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