Objectives of the activity

To explore and practise …

• how to design CEFR CV related modules and how to include these in language teacher education programmes;
• how to encourage and prepare teachers to apply an action-oriented approach in their teaching and assessment practices;
• how to motivate and prepare teachers to include mediation in their teaching and assessment practices;
• how to select and develop effective materials for teacher education and professional development purposes
• how to select and develop effective teaching materials, classroom activities and assessment tasks for use in teacher education and in professional development workshops.

Participants learn ...

• how to implement the action-oriented approach in teaching, learning and assessing languages;
• how to apply the principle of constructive alignment and how to align syllabi to the CEFR Companion Volume;
• how to address the four modes of communication in teaching and assessment, and
• how to create meaningful cross-linguistic and intralinguistic mediation tasks for use in teacher education and in classroom practice.

Resources used by the ECML experts

	a teaching guide with information about what mediation entails, how it can be taught and types of mediation tasks
	a database with cross-linguistic mediation tasks

	modules with resources for teacher education and professional development activities as well as self-study purposes
	materials for reflection to support the implementation of key concepts of the CEFR Companion Volume
	sample teaching and assessment tasks for teacher education