Planning for Content and Language Learning Across the Curriculum
Incorporating these seven principles into your planning will help your
students make academic progress in your curriculum area while they are
learning English.
Principle 1: Know your learners - their language background, their language proficiency, their experiential background.
Principle 2: Identify the learning outcomes including the language demands of the teaching and learning.
Principle 3: Maintain and make explicit the same learning outcomes for all the learners.
Principle 4: Begin with context embedded tasks which make the abstract concrete.
Principle 5: Provide multiple opportunities for authentic language use with a focus on students using academic language.
Principle 6: Ensure a balance between receptive and productive language.
Principle 7: Include opportunities for monitoring and self-evaluation.
The seven principles are exemplified within a level 3 science unit on
magnetism, but are relevant to all curriculum areas.
Click on each principle to find:
questions to reflect on;
the teacher's unit plan and changes to it, highlighted in blue, as each principle is considered;
exemplification of the principle within the unit;
student notes that relate to the particular students the teacher has (for some of the principles).
