Cross Curricular Iberian SIG

Iberian SIG - Cross Curricular Approaches

What’s this?

Members of two ELT associations, APPI from Portugal and TESOL-SPAIN, are starting up a Special Interest Group on cross-curricular programs and CLIL. By CLIL we aren’t just referring to “hard” CLIL or programs in which specialist subjects are taught in a Foreign Language. This group will embrace all kinds of cross-curricular approaches in ELT: hence our official name, the Cross-curricular Iberian SIG.

Aims:

Bring practitioners from all sectors in the Iberian Peninsula together - all practitioners who do any sort of cross-curricular work, PBL, in all its formats including those set in government curricular guidelines; hard and soft CLIL; whole school initiative such as interculturalism and social and emotional learning.
Encourage and invite other teaching practitioners to use cross-curricular approaches in their teaching by providing examples and guidelines
Provide a platform for sharing materials and snapshots of good practices and competences in language learning
Provide events and training sessions that are cross sector and cross Iberian. Opportunities to raise concerns and problems which are discussed in clinics to provide practical solutions.