Session 9: Alignment activities

Alignment means setting up the classroom activities that help learners achieve the lesson aims. If the aims, activities and assessments teachers create for their learners are aligned (i.e. match well), the influence of the teacher on the learning is at its greatest (Bigs, 2003)

Reflective point

Each of the activities designed in the CLIL project should to add the tools and the skills students need to perform the final outcome. Each activity has to be aligned with the others so that students feel more confident at the end of the course. In this alignment is necessary to set the ASSESSMENT and EVALUATION techniques and instruments that will be  needed to SCAFFOLD and provide FEEDBACK to the students.