Deeper Learning Companion For Clil, A: Putting Pluriliteracies

Description: If education is to prepare learners for lifelong learning, there needs to be a shift towards deeper learning: a focus on transferable knowledge and problem-solving skills alongside the development of a positive or growth mind-set. Deeper learning is inextricably linked with CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) - a revolutionary teaching approach where students study subjects in a different language. Designed as a companion to the influential volume Beyond CLIL, this highly practical book offers step-by-step instruction for designing and implementing innovative tasks and materials for pluriliteracies development. It contains annotated case studies of deeper learning lesson plans across a wide range of school subjects, using an innovative and proven template, to help teachers explore the potential of deeper learning inside their own classrooms. Theoretically grounded, this book offers a roadmap for schools, ranging from exploratory first steps, to transdisciplinary projects, to whole school moves for curriculum development and transformative pedagogies.

Contents: Part I. Key Ideas and Principles of Pluriliteracies Teaching for Deeper Learning: 1. Exploring the mechanics of deeper learning; 2. Exploring the drivers of deeper learning; 3. Exploring progression in deeper learning; 4. Designing deeper learning episodes; Part II: Deeper Learning Episodes: First Steps towards Transforming Classrooms: 5. Chemistry: exploring pluriliteracies through a deeper learning episode on redox reaction Teresa Connolly; 6. Physics: exploring pluriliteracies through a deeper learning episode on rainbows Klaus Wendt, Andreas Pysik and Johannes Lhotzky; 7. Geography: exploring pluriliteracies through a deeper learning episode on global warming Nicole Berg; 8. History: exploring pluriliteracies through a deeper learning episode on the German Empire Susanne Staschen-Dielmann; 9. Political science: exploring pluriliteracies through a deeper learning episode on electronic waste Susanne Staschen-Dielmann and Saskia Helm; 10. Modern languages: exploring pluriliteracies through a deeper learning episode in French literature with younger beginner learners Frederic Taveau; 11. Religious education: exploring pluriliteracies through a deeper learning episode on modern-day prophets Stefan Altmeyer and Johannes Kerbeck; 12. Music: exploring pluriliteracies through a deeper learning episode on 'The Wellerman' Valerie Krupp; 13. Deeper learning mathematics: the case of algebraic questions Susanne Prediger and Anna-Katharina Roos; Conclusion: Moving beyond First Steps: Using PTDL for Whole School Development and Transformation.

Author Biography: Do Coyle is Chair in Languages Education and Classroom Pedagogy at the University of Edinburgh. Oliver Meyer is Head of the Department of Teaching English as a Foreign Language at the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz. Susanne Staschen-Dielmann is Teacher Trainer for the Berlin School Administration. Together they have been working on ways to implement their shared vision for deeper learning across subjects and languages.


Offers ready-made, theory-driven deeper-learning materials across subjects to show how to put a pluriliteracies approach into practice.