- To observe on site the everyday teaching-learning process and the different measures - To observe on site: o Junior Certificate School Project (Demonstration Library Project) o Curriculum has been revised by reorganising the four overarching strands (‘Receptiveness to language’, ‘Competence and confidence in using language’, ‘Developing cognitive abilities through language’ and ‘Emotional and imaginative development through language’) o Giving all teachers at secondary level responsibility for the promotion of literacy. o The Irish curriculum states that pupils should be able to recommend books to others and seek recommendations from them. The curriculum gives a lot of detailed guidelines on what pupils could read. o Pupils are invited to express their preference for particular genres or authors. o Some teachers have been trained as ‘Reading Recovery’ teachers. o Local authority library services have a key role in promoting reading among all age groups and their work is co-ordinated nationally by the Library Council. - To implement in IES El Palo teaching-learning methods concerning reading skills observed in Ireland.
This Project emerges within the framework of two other programs for the innovation in teaching which are currently in progress in our school, IES El Palo: Digitalization of Schools Project and School Language Project. A survey has been carried out in our school in order to determine the level of communicative competence in our students, and it has shown that this competence needs to be improved. In 2020, the year when we applied for this Project, our own School Language Project focused on improving reading skills in our students. This made us also realice that communicative and digital skills must be considered as a whole, since an important part of our students’ reading material is digitalized. On the other hand, this is an opportunity to study in detail digital tools which could help us improve reading skills. Besides we can say that he Project is the answer to the questions raised by the next books: Teaching reading in Europe (https://sede.educacion.gob.es/publiventa/la-ensenanza-de-la-lectura-en-europa-contextos-politicas-y-practicas/europa-lectura/15968) and eighth position in PISA report in 2018 (https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informe_PISA: Irlanda 8º).