Curriculum and Pedagogy
- Consider the social, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds of pupils in planning for transformative classroom practices.
- Explore a range of language and language learning strategies which help to remove barriers to learning.
- Plan and promote a high standard of literacy and oral skills for a diverse range of learners at different stages of proficiency in the language of schooling (English or Gaelic) and any additional languages.
- Identify the learners’ social, cultural, and linguistic needs
- Plan inclusive lessons using diverse social, cultural, and linguistic contexts.
- Embed language learning across the curriculum
- Develop and foster the intercultural competences of all learners, considering differences in the cultural and linguistic background of the young people in the classroom
- The Use a range of formative and summative assessment to evaluate learners’ individual learning journeys towards plurilingualism and pluriliteracies.
The learning context
- Understand how language learning and promoting and developing intercultural understanding supports the individual needs (cognitive, emotional, social, and physical) of the learner
- Employ a range of strategies and resources that embrace plurilingual practices and foster learner (plurilingual and pluricultural) identities.
- Create a safe, diverse, and positive language and literacy environment for all learners.
- Create learning opportunities which foster a positive attitude towards diversity and language learning
Professional learning
- Develop and maintain personal language skills
- Develop a critical understanding of international and national policies and guidelines relating to languages, literacies, and intercultural competences (for professional development)
- Critically engage with educational research to further guide, develop, and sustain transformative language learning pedagogical practices
- Collaborate with colleagues and support agencies to develop practices which foster plurilingualism and pluriliteracies.
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