Aims and Objectives
Design Principle
Establish which language goals will be focused upon school-wide, taking into consideration subject-specific language and multilingualism
Example
Students are prepared language-wise to reach national attaintment levels for the target languages; additionally they develop subject-specific language within an including multilingual learning environment.
Checklist
The school…
- Has clear language learning objectives derived from national standards
- Provides learning pathways for each target language that underpin the CLIL and non-CLIL subjects/lessons
- Has policies on the method of language assessment in the CLIL and non-CLIL subjects/lessons
- Implements a policy that welcomes and accommodates all languages
Tools for Evaluation
- Nuffic Standard for Bilingual Education
- Toolkit: Herramienta para la autoevaluación de la eficacia de la política educativa del centro bilingüe
- A framework of key success factors for bilingual education (p. 143)
- Guiding Principles for Dual Language Education, p. 142 Sections: Program structure, Curriculum
further reading
- Quality Standard for Bilingual Education
- Standard for T-VMBO
- Do we all share the same goals for content and language integrated learning (CLIL)? Specialist and practitioner perceptions of ‘ideal’ CLIL pedagogies in the Netherlands
- School effectiveness in multilingual education: A review of success factors
- The knowledge base of CLIL teaching in multilingual primary education settings