Let's jamm! is aimed at embarking students on an authentic communicative experience to improve language competence in the target language while exploring their musical creativity as composers, performers and promoters. Since music education plays an important role in both Narcis Oller HIgh School and AF Chapmangymnasiet, Let's Jamm! aims to be an inspiring setting where students can integrate language skills and music education in a natural way. Let's jamm! is a suitable communicative approach to FL teaching and learning that combines content and task-based instruction with the powerful effects of music: turning language learners' barriers (cognitive and emotional) into intrinsic motivation and enjoyment. A group of 15 students from the Performing Arts Baccalaurete (aged 16-17) at Narcis Oller and a group of 15 students of Spanish and English as a FL from AF Chapmangymnasiet (aged 16-18) will work cooperatively on the E-twinning platform in the creative process of writing a song (lyrics, melody composition, musical arrangements), editing a video clip and planning its performance and dissemination using the target language. Each year, two exchange visits will take place: the first one at the end of April during the celebration of St. George's Day (23rd of April) in Valls, Spain and the second one in Karlstrona, Sweden on the occasion of Spring's Day (1st of May). Students will be also responsible for planning their partners visit, the performances and elaborate a Welcome Guide for Guests, including relevant information about their stay in the partner's country. We strongly believe that Let's Jamm will give a new and fresh impulse for FL learning in our schools as a means to succesfully overcome language learners' barriers (emotional stress and cognitive limitations). We expect to become an inspiration for other teachers on how to adopt a more student-centered and task-based approach and also for those who are already implementing a CLIL approach in their lessons. Last but not least, both our schools are concerned about the future of music education in state schools. We truly expect to make our contribution to ensure music education is not limited to an elite, but available to all students.
Let's jam! is aimed at embarking students on an authentic communicative experience to improve language competence in the target language while exploring their musical creativity as composers, performers and promoters. Since music education plays an important role in both Narcis Oller HIgh School and AF Chapmangymnasiet, Let's Jam! aims to be an inspiring setting where students can integrate language skills and music education in a natural way. Let's jamm! is a suitable communicative approach to FL teaching and learning that combines content and task-based instruction with the powerful effects of music: turning language learners' barriers (cognitive and emotional) into intrinsic motivation and enjoyment. Objectives 1. Providing students with a real context to improve Language competence in English through collaboration with their peers and task-based projects Activities: Use of etwinning as a working platform; online meetings, cooperative tasks to reach agreements on the composition of a song, common edition of the vídeo All you need is Love during the pandemic. 2. Promoting an active student-centered and peer to peer learning. Activities: Matching peers with whom students have been interacting by email, instagram and whatsap; Building working groups with Swedish and Spanish students to work cooperatively in online meetings and during movilities. 3. Motivating students to develop their creative potential through Music, dance and Drama Activities: Exhange of Christmas Carols; musical rehearsals, Jam sessions, Jam sessions; concerts at the Townhall, concerts of the Let’s Jam Ensemble for the school community, involving students in the repertoire (students’ proposal to add the song We aret he world as an act of solidarity with the Ucranian people) 4. Encouraging students to design and implement and promote their own project. Activities: Involving students in the organization of hosting activities such as cultural hands on workshops, sightseeing activities and social events, surveys about the topic and the style for the song, contest for the logo of the project Due to the pandèmic, mobilities planned for 2019/20 y 2020/21 had to be postponed. Music workshops by local artists were held, live and online in Sweden; online music exchanges and a vídeo with the song All you need is Love was edited by students to express their concern about the pandèmic. Once the extension for one more year was granted for the school year 2021/22, teachers and students got back to music learning activities on composition in both schools and planning for the mobilities with students of Performing Arts and Musical and students of Af Chapman and Törnströmska started From a student-centered approach students became reponsible for their own learning. They created hands on cultural activities to show their International peers costums and traditions; planned the agenda for the mobilities; took part in rehearsals together and in composition workshops to create the song Let’s Jam. This project has generated lots of new projects (town twinning arrangements between Valls and Kalskrona, additional hosting of 30 students from Sweden in the homes of students of Narcis Oller, new projects with Vocational Training students -feb 2023- and the consolidation and continuity of Let’s Jam as an identity label for both schools. The Accreditation plan of Narcis Oller 2022-27 includes the above mentioned activities for long term cooperation as well as the creation of a new project, follwing the steps taken for Let’s Jam, for the students of the Visual Arts Baccalaureate with a Liceo from Italy. As for our concern about the future of music education in públic schools, we feel proud to contribute to ensure music education is not limited to an elite, but a universal Language available to all students.