Learning Environment
Design Principle
Establish a safe and inspiring physical and digital environment that fosters the (language) learning process.
Example
Pupils are offered a learning environment in which they are surrounded by (multi)lingual input and can easily access language-rich materials.
Checklist
The school…
- Offers materials in various languages that suit the interests and levels of the pupils, paired with guidance as needed
- Provides classroom spaces that offer multisensory (language) stimulation
- Provides a rich multilingual digital environment with sufficient teacher support
- Offers learning opportunities in meaningful and authentic contexts, including outside of the school
Tools for Evaluation
- Nuffic Standard for Bilingual Education
- Zelfscan: Hoe rijk is je taal in de les?
- The knowledge base of CLIL teaching in multilingual primary education settings: Good Practice Box
- CLIL Matrix”Achieving good practice in Content and Language Integrated Learning/ bilingual education“