FIS STEPS: Why? What? How?

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1 FIS STEPS: Why? What? How? Mika Lintujärvi coordinator FIS STEPS, FISTA, Language Circus, PROFICOM City of Tampere basic education, administration

2 Have you ever? felt frustrated at the lack of proper CLIL materials? wondered how colleagues in other CLIL schools are coping in their CLIL classrooms? been uncertain as to the balance between Finnish and English in tuition? had difficulties in evaluating children that shuttle between countries? wished for a separate curriculum for CLIL English? felt inadequate in the challenges offered by the multicultural backgrounds in your class/ school? wished for tailor made CLIL in service training?

been uncertain as to the balance between Finnish and English in tuition?

3 Finnish International Schools Sharing Tools for English Public Schools Background the disintegration of CLIL teaching and learning*: language immersion, language enriched learning, bilingual tuition, CLIL, international schools the need to unify and share the need to ensure educational equality the need for CLIL to be considered integral part of the national language reserve Government s five year Development Plan for Education and Research: the quality of Finnish education export, internalization at home funding from the National Board of Education 07/2011 * Miettinen, Elisa: Kotimaisten kielten kielikylpyopetus ja vieraskielinen opetus kuntatason tarkastelussa (Soveltavan kielentutkimuksen keskus, Jyväskylän yliopisto)

language reserve Government s five year Development Plan for Education and Research: the quality of Finnish education export, internalization at home funding from the National Board

4 Organization a network initiative of 5 basic education providers: Espoo, Kuopio, Tampere, Turku International School, Vantaa coordinated by Tampere basic education reference group: supervision, guidelines, contact to the National Board of Education Veli Matti Kanerva, manager of basic education, Tampere; chair Sari Helena Kokkonen, manager of basic education, Kuopio Pia Mikkola, principal, Finnish International School of Tampere Ulla Nurmi, planning officer in basic education, Vantaa Petri Peltonen, district director of basic education, Tampere Auli Tikkanen, principal, Postipuu School, Espoo Vesa Valkila, principal, Turku International School Mika Lintujärvi, project coordinator, Tampere; secretary project group: planning, taking action, organisation, involving teachers

principal, Finnish International School of Tampere Ulla Nurmi, planning officer in basic education, Vantaa Petri Peltonen, district director of basic education, Tampere Auli Tikkanen, principal,

5 Goals to improve the quality of Finnish CLIL tuition to model a Finnish concept of an international school based on the Finnish national curriculum and international influences to impact the national core curriculum as regards CLIL tuition and international schools national guidelines to establish, facilitate and strengthen CLIL networks to devise pedagogical innovations to chart, find, produce CLIL materials to enhance the knowledge of foreign cultures among pupils through national and international networks

international schools national guidelines to establish, facilitate and strengthen CLIL networks to devise pedagogical

6 Accomplishments and plans the network established one seminar organised a list compiled of issues that should be outlined nationally a contact established to the National Board of Education in service training provided in Oulu, Tampere, Vantaa the National Certificate of Language Proficiency offered national curriculum work involvement of student welfare groups and student councils FIS STEPS seminar II FIS STEPS II: a new subsidy granted 07/12

Oulu, Tampere, Vantaa the National Certificate of Language Proficiency offered national curriculum work

7 Theme groups teams to be established on the following topics: 1. materials (charting, tips & links, ) 2. evaluation (CLIL English, appendix to basic education certificate, ) 3. multiculturalism (concepts and definitions, good practices, ) 1 st meeting on Nov 7 th in Tampere (3 teachers/ partner)

evaluation (CLIL English, appendix to basic education certificate, ) 3.

8 The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phase in plan that would become known as "Euro English". In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

English". In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k".

9 In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away. By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united Urop vil finali kum tru. Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent "e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

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