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= Formative assessment and Key Competences =

Course Description:
In this course, participants will share their strategies, tools, and resources to develop and assess the EFL competence of students in Primary, Secondary and EOI contexts. The importance of boosting skill practice through formative assessment will be discussed. All activities will be carried out on a wiki and the communication language will be English.

Course Structure:
In the course there are ** four modules, ** where we will work collaboratively, and ** two final individual tasks **.


 * MODULES
 * In the modules, we will focus first on sharing activities and strategies to deal with the **skills that are needed in EFL learning. These will include:**
 * The traditional 4 skills (Listening, reading, speaking and writing)
 * Integrated skill practice (Complex tasks)
 * Learning to learn strategies
 * Multicultural awareness
 * Our main discussion will be centered on how assessment can enhance learning.
 * The final individual tasks will serve as an individual reflexion for participants to go beyond their current practices.

FINAL INDIVIDUAL TASKS

 * In the end, we will share our assessment programmes and our own reflection about what participants would change in their learning practices in the light of what has been discussed.

** Course Requirements: **
The course is open to Primary, Secondary, EOI and CLIL teachers. To participate in this online Wiki course, you will need:
 * A computer with wide band Internet connection
 * A browser (Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome...)
 * A certain experience as Internet user, word processing, email and using files and directories

Course Objectives:
On completion of this course, participant will have shared ** : **
 * The different ways we teach and assess the 4 skills in our classes.
 * Complex tasks that promote skill integration and how we assess them.
 * Strategies to develop and assess multicultural awareness.
 * Reflexion and dialogue with and between our pupils.
 * Reflexion on the participants' own practice.
 * Ideas to improve meaningfulness, motivation and better results in student's performance
 * Useful resources and ICT tools.

Content:

 * Module 0: Getting to know each other and learning how to use the wiki
 * Module 1: Assessing the 4 skills in EFL learning
 * Module 2: Assessing tasks that integrate more than one skill in EFL
 * Module 3: Assessing the Learning to Learn competence
 * Module 4: Assessing Multicultural Awareness


 * Final Task 1: Formative Assessment Framework
 * Final Task 2: Final Reflection

Methodology:
We will mainly use sharing and discussion of participants practice. We will create a repository of good practices and reflect on how assessment can be improved to guarantee success and motivation in learners. Participants will add their contributions on the wiki, and make suggestions to each other.

We will also discuss how assessment can help students improve their capacity to learn through reflexion. Last but not least, enhancing multicultural awareness will be addressed.

In the end, participants will reorganize all the contributions collaboratively, according to a suggested assessment framework. They will also make an individual reflection on how their practices can be improved, according to what they have learned during the course.

Work Plan

 * **Module ** ||  **Dates **  ||  **Hours **  ||
 * Module 0 || 28 June – 1 July || 7 hours ||
 * Module 1 || 2nd July – 9 July || 16 hours ||
 * Module 2 ||^  ||^   ||
 * Module 3 ||^  ||^   ||
 * Module 4 ||^  ||^   ||
 * Final Tasks || 10 July - 14 July || 7 hours ||

Course evaluation
We will mainly use sharing and discussion of participants practice. We will create a repository of good practices and reflect on how assessment can be improved to guarantee success and motivation in learners. Participants will add their contributions on the wiki, and make suggestions to each other.

We will also discuss how assessment can help students improve their capacity to learn through reflexion. Last but not least, enhancing multicultural awareness will be addressed.

In the end, participants will reorganize all the contributions collaboratively, according to a suggested assessment framework. They will also make an individual reflection on how their practices can be improved, according to what they have learned during the course.

Accreditation:
For accreditation, one contributions to each of the 7 Forums is asked. There is one forum per module except for Module 1, where there are four. Six contributions and six comments to classmates will be considered enough as participants must complete 80% of the proposed activities to pass the course. More will of course be welcomed

 Participations must be detailed. It is important that participants share, in the forums: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">The two final tasks are compulsory and must be based on the participant's school practice, whenever possible.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">What they do
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Examples of student's performance, if possible
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Useful procedures, resources and ICT tools.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Assessment strategies
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Any tips that they consider relevant