STEP 3: Language aware practices (Video Clubs, TP1 & ProTeacher)
What language aware practices have you observed in school? How can language awareness support student participation in the classroom and in school activities?
Language awareness is a key consideration in each of the teaching practices. Teaching Practice 1 raises language awareness by observing the multilingualism and language aware practices of the school. This provides concrete examples of what language awareness means in the classroom and in school life and what language-based tools the teacher can use to support learning, participation and understanding. Language awareness is also the theme of one of the Teaching Practice 1 Video Clubs, which aims at supporting the development of classroom interaction observation skills.
Texts, tasks and tools:
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Language aware classroom observations (Listiac).pdf
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Finnish National Core Curriculum for Basic Education 2014, esp. Section 3.3