Sharing knowledge

Training courses
In general, I think the key is trying to teach or train abroad by doing a work placement in an training or teaching institution. The training courses I am interested in are the key action 2 and key action 1 that offers the European Commission. The learning mobility of individuals is a common practice amongst students, so why not for teachers?. Cooperation for innovation and exchange of good practices is something that teachers can do abroad or locally.
These kind of experiences provide fantastic teaching opportunities for the teaching staff, not only in their professional careers but in their life experiencies, they are enriching and rewarding. Moreover they are usefull to update or acquire knowledge of work practices and pedagogical skills, ITC skills and allow to improve teacher language skills such as speaking, listening and learn from students and teachers by interacting with them. It is also important to acquire flexibility and adapt us to educational system changes and the society reality regarding the competences and skills required for properly integrated into the same level of success enough in personal, social and working students life. Although KA3 training course is also interesting and important.

Sharing good practices amongst teaching professionals
In my opinion, cooperation with third countries is the best way to share good practise amongst teaching professionals. The idea is exchange good practices by focusing on neighbourhood countries and foster innovation. In a local level, the cooperation amongst different communities is also a fantastic way to evaluate and apply technics. Collaborating learning boosts the acquirance and the construction of knowledge among teachers.
Collaborative learning has a number of advantages over learning individual:

• Increase motivation of all members of the group towards the learning outcomes and content.
• Individual learning increases the whole group learning and all of them get better results.
• It promotes the critical thinking
• The diversity of knowledge and experiences of the group help to reduce anxiety causing individual situations troubleshooting

Sharing knowledge is essential because it allows to increase the employability through traineeships or by enriching or modify the existing practices. Also it help promoting the change we need and trigger policy reform. That is usefull to exchange teaching technics, implement or improve your own technics gathering ideas from other colleagues. But it is important to apply and focus our teaching should be integrated into the curriculum of our institutions.

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What would I say is the most important thing about science (in a CLIL context)?

The science curriculum requires learning objectives and outcomes, competences and content. If I were not limited by the curriculum in a CLIL context class, I would reduce the quantity of formal assessment (exams) and focus on the improvement of the student competences instead of study mainly to pass the exams. I think these competences are no enough developed nowadays and it is important to strengthen them. What is important now is skills, knowledge is on the internet.
The fact to be in a CLIL context involves work through 4 C’s model of Do Coyle to teach successful lessons. In today’s world the most important thing is the competence acquire and to become independent and self-regulating learner, so it would be very useful to teach the students how to get the skills. I would focus on:

• Communication. To improve scientific communication, Participate in debates, presentations, create reports and communicate in the clearest, most effective way possible and for a real purpose in a real context
• Content. Content knowledge using the simplest form of language.
• Cognition. To provide scaffolding strategies (input, output and transformation) allowing the students build their own knowledge. Specially learning to learn and communicative competence and higher order thinking skill, developing discourse, analyse the information, take decisions.
• Culture: to encourage students to understand themselves as citizens of the world, to strengthen transversal themes, social issues or problems, to promote international awareness and understanding, learning community of a class and school to local and global cultures
• Assessment. It is a big difference between what we typically assess and what we can assess. I find suitable using different kinds of assessment but it does not seem easy taking into account the student difficulties integration. I have read about that and come out issues: should we support foreign L2 or allow students to use mother tongue?, strengthen the content of the course or simplify the content or recess the level of demand? I would introduce the self-assessment for the students themselves measure their own progress, feedback and a mixture of formal and informal assessment.

Education is moving towards open learning and as a teacher I would support the change and get students take charge of their learning being self-directed. It would be necessary to encourage teachers to use alternative ways of planning and designing lessons for more effective learning. The more student output the better.

Resources:
Science CLIL lessons