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 * SYLLABUS AND TERM DESIGN: USING THE CURRICULUM & THE COMMON EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE **

This course we have also worked with some official resources and documents such as the “Castille y León” **Curriculum and the Common European Framework of Reference** in order to create and design some of our tasks in which we have to deal with the development of a Unit plan. Allow me to show you the general idea of the common structure we have followed so as to create a **Unit of Work.**

**//__Leading activity: __//**  This is the moment where is placed the main activity developed, before this moment there are some more activities linked to the leading one, they are the introduction and affiancing activities which all together give the resultant form of the leading activity.

**//__Assessments: __//**  These are all of the achievements that are set per activity or all of them together in order to provide a constructive feedback. Assessments are use to evaluate the grade of performance of the pupils, so as to the teachers to see the strengths and weaknesses of the children.

**//__Used Template sheet: __//** all of the templates are designed due to record all of the purposes that are intended to teach and also to serve as a guide to the teachers when developing what they contain. Template sheets are a good device to plan a Unit of Work temporization and to set clear and effective objects which the children should achieve the better according to their different possibilities.

Educators have to follow a careful way designing these Units of Work; the previous work and planning is in fact one of the most important duties of educators who set good and organized teaching performances.



__BUT, WHY ARE THE CURRICULUM & THE COMMON EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK OF REFERENCE OF THE LANGUAGES SO IMPORTANT? (FROM MY POINT OF VIEW) __

Education is something very serious and that is why teachers have to take compromise with the social labor they do, we have to have some specific and clear purposes in our educative acts and think about the tasks we are going to develop, about the teching and about what is convenient for pupils; that is why we have to take in reference those educative documents in order to justify all of the principles in which we will base our educative experience, and I am saying experience because then they would not be objectives or ends to reach, they would be expectatives, simple hopes, our desired personal teaching wishes, it would be like a suggestion just to know where to lead our educative tasks, it would be simply what teachers just can do and not what pupils basically must or should achieve.

__WHAT IS THE EUROPEAN LANGUAGE PORTFOLIO? __

It is a document in which pupils are learning or have learnt any language spoken in Europe, English, Spanish, Italian, Valencian, German... Pupils can keep their knowledge of the language and their cultural experiences. This document has three differentiated parts:

 __**-Language passport:**__ In this section pupils can writte down as an essay their cultural and linguistic learnings, personal califications, the experience of the practise with the languages they know and the contacts with their respective cultures.

 **__-Language biography:__** This section helps the pupils to set personal learning target or aims and at the same time record and mark on the language learnings, the intercultural experiences and the continuos assessment acquisition and progress.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;">**__-Dossier:__** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px;"> In this last part, pupils can wrute down and record many samples of their work in the dealed language they have learnt or which they are learning.

besides OAPEE

__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">INTERESTING RESOURCES: __

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">(This book is like a guide for teachers that help us to set the outcomes and the elements presented on a common syllabus)



<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">(Interesting book about the principles involved in planning and designing an effective syllabus)



(Spanish Power Point about the European Language Portfolio)



<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 24px;">(PDF about programming in Childhood Education)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 24px;">

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 24px;">(Here I grab you the European Language Portfolio for Primary Education pupils)

__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">INTERESTING LINKS: __

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: medium;">(Some information Junior European Language Portfolio)

**__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">WHAT IS THE ELP? __** media type="youtube" key="BXacV3Yz-60" width="296" height="245" align="center"

** __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">CONCLUSIONS ABOUT THE ELP __ ** media type="youtube" key="1usq9CRKT7k" width="296" height="245" align="center"

**__DEVELOPED TASK:__** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">The last task we have to deal with this course was the one in which we had to design and create a Unit of Work ("Water cycle") formed by the number of five lessons for the "Science" subject for the Spanish fourth course. We took as reference the Spanish Curriculum and the Common European Framework of Reference so as to design its contents, assessments and criteria mainly appart from other things. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Here I add the resultant template of our five lesson Unit of Work "Water Cycle": <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">Used Power Point presentation: __ **INTERESTING EDUCATIONAL GENERAL LINKS:** __









**BBC**