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ELAPSE aimed to develop primary and secondary language teachers' awareness of CLIL/soft CLIL methodology transnationally and to build teachers' confidence and expertise to adopt a cross-curricular approach to the planning and delivery of language lessons.The ELAPSE project partners had collectively identified that knowledge of CLIL/soft CLIL in the primary sector of their respective countries was limited and had not been embedded within curriculum planning and delivery. Project partners were aware of small-scale pockets of interest in CLIL/soft CLIL methodology in their respective countries. Furthermore there was a lack of tried and tested materials available to primary languages teachers across Europe to enable them to use a CLIL/soft CLIL approach. By creating 21 sets of resources catering for teachers of English, French, German and Spanish as additional languages, ELAPSE was able to plug an immediate gap in available resources. The resources for teachers focus on Literacy, Numeracy, STEM subjects and Health and Wellbeing. The focus of ELAPSE is on the upper primary phase and on bridging resources which can be used as pupils transition between the primary and the secondary sector. The resulting practical resources and good practice guide are now available across the European Union on a dedicated open-access project website as well as an online course. These will act as a self-access bank of CLIL/soft CLIL resources, including an outline of CLIL/soft CLIL methodology, teacher support materials, advisory videos from experienced CLIL teachers, evaluation materials and a good practice guide. Teachers and teacher training and support organisations are at the core of the ELAPSE project and we were committed to ensuring that ELAPSE’s resources and the online course were piloted by practising teachers. This has ensured that our resources are fit for purpose and that classroom teachers around Europe and globally can be confident about using our self-access resources, which include step-by-step learning opportunities to build awareness of CLIL and to build confidence to embark on using CLIL/soft CLIL methodology in their own country/sector. ELAPSE project partners anticipate that there will be around 80,000 teachers involved in various ways in the project. This includes teacher-contributors who acted as critical friends throughout the project to critique the work of the project partners such as the agreed direction of the online course and the suggested content of the 21 sets of CLIL/soft CLIL resources. The more experienced practitioners feature in videos expressing their views on CLIL and soft CLIL methodology and offering their personal tips on what the methodology has brought to them as practitioners and to their school and pupils. Teachers who were new to CLIL/soft CLIL piloted our resources and online course and assisted the partners in the development of a best practice guide to support other teachers. There will now be teacher-participants new to the approach piloting resources in each of the partner countries. We aim to disseminate our projet further both across participating partner countries (at local, regional and national level) and across Europe. This will involve conducting ‘awareness raising activities’ both in relation to the theme (soft CLIL/CLIL) and specific to the project (outputs etc). Relevant completed outputs to be disseminated include: an online course, a bank of resources, evaluation tools and finally a good practice guide. We believe that this final output will be especially important as it has the potential to have a significant impact on pedagogy and the way languages are taught across Europe. Therefore, we firstly aim to target teachers and teaching communities (both physically and virtually/via social media etc.): teacher trainers, institutions, school/educational networks and stakeholders across the partner countries (UK, ES, FR, AUS) and associate partners across Europe. Following this first phase of dissemination and a period of evaluation (of resources, tools etc), a second phase of dissemination will take place where we will target national agencies and organisations responsible for language teaching and development in both partner countries and associate partners across Europe including; training providers, educational leaders and advisors, networks, subject associations etc. We envisage as a result of the ELAPSE project that there will be a core body of schools in each partner country practising CLIL/soft CLIL at primary/early secondary level; that teachers will have the capacity to upskill themselves in CLIL methodology through the online course, best practice guide & use of our lesson plans and resources, thus creating a lasting and transformative ongoing legacy in European schools. All support materials and resources are entirely free for teachers to use and will be housed for a minimum of three years on our dedicated ELAPSE project website.
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