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Using groups when teaching CLIL is both useful and necessary, but doing it properly is not always an easy task. So you can watch this great video on group work. You can take a look at the synopsis before clicking. 

How important are attainment levels when it comes to choosing your groups? Is there an appropriate time to let children work in friendship groups? How do you decide when to intervene, and when not to?

These and many other questions are discussed, as well as looking at different strategies for organising groups and how to encourage children to develop group work skills, including a rather crafty method for keeping track of how many children have contributed in a group.

D. Ojeda. Integración de lengua y contenidos en el marco de la enseñanza reglada

http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/publications-reports-articles/handbooks/Handbook1155

Summary

This handbook aims to offer evidence, insights, ideas and recommendations that can be built upon to support and nurture a culture of transformative innovation within education.

Increasingly it is recognised that there is a need to innovate to enable greater creativity, flexibility, learner input and so forth, and to deliver a more personalised educational system and foster new skills amongst learners. There is a need for transformative innovation in order to develop new relationships and ways of working, to update approaches, and to harness the collective social capital and skills of school communities to deliver better learning and teaching. This means challenging accepted practice and prevailing logic, which can place practitioners outside their comfort zone, as many changes that innovations may bring can often be disruptive and challenging in the short term. However, evidence suggests that innovation is not only necessary but can be exciting and rewarding and result in a whole range of benefits.

Numerous resistances or barriers to innovation have been highlighted, but many of these are perceptual, and with effective strategies, support and the right culture in place, many others can be overcome. There is significant room for manoeuvre within existing frameworks and policies to find space for innovation. By re-professionalising the workforce and empowering teachers to act as innovators, a range of skills and abilities are modelled to learners. Driving innovation also requires more imaginative use of resources, including the skills and abilities of learners, wider networks and innovators in other fields.

A range of tools and techniques also exist that can help foster creative thinking, problem solving and innovative practices, and emerging digital technologies also present new opportunities and social practices that can lead to more diverse and dynamic learning experiences by harnessing the potential of a networked society. A broader culture of innovation must be established, so that practice and skills can be shared and suited to local contexts and needs, and so that the development of networks and hubs of innovation can emerge to help disseminate and diffuse practice.

Innovations require a focus on new practice in line with broader educational visions, and there is a need for subsequent policy changes to facilitate greater innovation; however, there needs to be a shift of focus to a model of bottom-up innovation emanating from practitioners themselves to ensure a sustainable culture of change and development. A more open approach to the development, sharing and refinement of materials and resources also needs to develop, as this is more likely to encourage a set of localised solutions to educational challenges suited to particular contexts.

Innovation can be challenging and hard work, yet the rewards are plentiful. To innovate requires willingness to try new approaches, and this can lead to ‘failures’, but if innovation is seen as an iterative and ongoing process rather than a one-off activity, much can be learnt and shared from these setbacks. Ultimately the consequences of failing to innovate are far more serious: an education system that becomes outdated and fails to provide relevant educational experiences for learners.

Check out the new updating on the link’s section. Now it’s more organized and it has brand new sites. Enjoy!