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 a model policy to adapt.
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 full document is yours to download and adapt. 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.
Need a hand
Support beyond the site
This site is the knowledge base for your own CLIL specialist to lead the work. If you would like outside support to design or run it, you can get in touch.