If you were not limited by the demands of the national/regional curriculum, what would you say is the most important thing you would teach your students about you subject (in a CLIL context)? How would you assess their learning?

I work as a psychologist in a Secondary School and I'm sure that the curriculum is not our limiting factor for teaching in a CLIL context. Especially when I am teaching students from 12 to 16 years. I'm not sure about this at higher levels because 18 years old's students must pass an admission test to college and this test is about content.

The curriculum only reflects content (What do you teach?) but CLIL is the style or method that we use (How do you teach?).

So what would I say is the most important thing I would teach my students about my subject? I don't teach any subject. I usually provide my students with information about careers, degrees, academic options, vocational options....I teach them study skills.

From my point of view, the most important thing is that my students learn how to make a decision about their future, be autonomous, learn to learn, dialogue and have a critical or abstract thinking.

I teach them how to behave when they go to an interview and work communication skills. For this reason, I hope that my students have competence in linguistic communication. I teach them to design their portfolio, CV, for these activities use digital media. I want my student acquires digital competences.

I want that my students develop social skills and citizenship competence because it helps them to develop intercultural skills and facilitates mobility.

Sometimes, my students have sit and work together. It helps them to learn how to do constructive critiques involving them in critical reflection, to helping their classmates to make a decision, to design a CV, etc

For some activities I include role-playings and oral presentation. I am using rubrics for the final task and the self assessment before, during and at the end of the process.

It's important that students assess the knowledge of themselves and peer assessment help them to strive for a more advanced and deeper understanding of the subject matter, skills and processes.

In my case it's not necessary to be objective and reliable in the assessment.