And here: http://clic.xtec.cat/en/act/index.htm in the Library,  you will find activities already done and free to use in your lessons.

clil unitI found this interesting diagram in the blog of the CEIP Pràctiques school in Lleida: http://blocs.xtec.cat/clilpractiques1/2008/11/06/.

It may be useful to create the didactic units for the final assessment.

Ana B. Sánchez

CLIL: Complementing or Compromising English Language Teaching?

This is the title for the debate that will be hosted by Macmillan Education, Onestopclil and Guardian Weekly at the IATEFL  International Conference in Cardiff, UK.

For those of us who are not able to attend the conference in Cardiff there are several ways to take part in the debate in www.onestopclil.com

As I know that all of us have now in mind the final assessment, I post here the Bloom’s taxonomy of Educational Objectives.

In 1956 Benjamin Bloom headed a group of educational psychologists who developed a classification of levels of intellectual behaviour important in learning. Bloom identified six levels within the cognitive domain. Here they are:

Knowledge

Count, Define, Describe, Draw, Find, Identify, Label, List, Match, Name, Quote, Recall, Recite, Sequence, Tell, Write

Comprehension

Conclude, Demonstrate, Discuss, Explain, Generalize, Identify, Illustrate, Interpret, Paraphrase, Predict, Report, Restate, Review, Summarize, Tell

Application

Apply, Change, Choose, Compute, Dramatize, Interview, Prepare, Produce, Role-play, Select, Show, Transfer, Use

Analysis

Analyze, Characterize, Classify, Compare, Contrast, Debate, Deduce, Diagram, Differentiate, Discriminate, Distinguish, Examine, Outline, Relate, Research, Separate,

Synthesis

Compose, Construct, Create, Design, Develop, Integrate, Invent, Make, Organize, Perform, Plan, Produce, Propose, Rewrite

Evaluation

Appraise, Argue, Assess, Choose, Conclude, Critic, Decide, Evaluate, Judge, Justify, Predict, Prioritize, Prove, Rank, Rate, Select,

 

After more than fifty years, this taxonomy is still very useful and practical for teachers to create didactic units, to write our lesson plans, to design activities, etc.

Ana B. Sánchez

This blog is part of the course “Especialista universitario en docencia en programas bilingües” and the reasons to start it are:

  •  To practise with the new technologies
  •  To share opinions and ideas between students and teachers
  •  To solve doubts about bilingualism, CLIL methodology, teaching techniques, etc.

All comments will be very welcome!

Ana B. Sánchez