Digited CLIL · For coordinators and leaders
Putting it in place,
across a school
Implementation is a process, not an event. Here is how to lead it, and what a policy should say.
The starting point
Lead it as a process
Change in a school is social before it is technical. It works when people shape it, understand it, and are supported through it.
- Engage. Let staff shape what happens, and give clear direction.
- Unite. Bring people around what is changing and why.
- Reflect. Monitor, adapt, and improve as you go.
A structured but flexible process
Four phases
The EEF phases, mapped onto this approach.
Explore
- Name the need: literacy, and learning in English.
- Check the pattern fits your setting.
- Start tight, not everywhere at once.
Prepare
- Name one CLIL specialist to lead it.
- Agree the standing furniture for every room.
- Plan the first training from this site.
Deliver
- Install the furniture school-wide.
- Each department names and drills its move.
- Support, watch the early signals, adapt.
Sustain
- Ready departments redesign full units.
- Bank and share what works.
- Review, and keep it going.
The model policy
What to put in writing
The policy says one thing: literacy is the goal, and CLIL is how every subject reaches it. The parts that matter most:
- An entitlement. In every subject, every student gets disciplinary reading, writing, and talk, with vocabulary taught directly.
- One standard for support. One paper for all, with the scaffold built in. Help comes through conferencing, not a separate easier paper.
- Clear roles. Teachers keep the furniture and name the move; the specialist coordinates; leaders protect the time.
- Early support. A low-stakes signal in each subject, with a reteach move ready.
Knowing it works
What to look for
- The standing furniture in every room, on a learning walk.
- The named language and the one move in students' work.
- The early signals, and whether reteaching follows.
- The retrieval book in use, and the weekly message going home to families.
- One unit redesigned, banked, and shared each term.