Teacher education for CLIL in primary education

This workshop will present insights into successful practices in pre-service education for Teaching Foreign Languages in Primary school, related to three innovation projects funded by the Complutense University and that have been recently carried out at the Education Department. They are focalized around three areas to develop the competences required in pre-service teaching programmes: (a) technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK), (b) a genre-based pedagogy for the teaching and development of reading and writing in English across the curriculum, specifically “Reading to Learn”, and (c) student teaching placement in European schools. Finally, some conclusions will be drawn about the need for change in Initial Teacher Education for CLIL in the Madrid context.