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Building bridges with ConBaT
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Why do we need bridges ?
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Why do we need bridges?

• To empower professionals of languages by giving
  them tools to manage ethnic and cultural
  heterogeneity as well as over-crowded curricula.
• To introduce and disseminate content-based and
  plurilingual activities that can be linked to
  several subjects of the curriculum.
• To relieve the increasing pressure teachers
  experience in their daily task of dealing with
  diversity.

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What kind of bridges do we need?
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What kind of bridges do we need?

• Wide bridges to allow many vehicles
  (methodologies, didactics, research, ) and many
  people (students, teachers, educational bodies,
  ) from all over the world to cross over.
• Long bridges to reach for all kind of languages,
  cultures, knowledge.
• Open bridges to facilitate and support free and
  unrestricted communication and exchanges.
• Strong bridges that can withstand possible
  adverse wind.

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Where should ConBaT bridges lead?
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Where should ConBaT bridges lead us?

• To places that...
• raise plurilingual, pluricultural and
  intercultural COMPETENCE among primary and
  secondary school teachers and their pupils.
• empower teachers to create QUALITY
  cross-curricular materials in English, French,
  and Spanish, as an L2, for primary and secondary
  school learners.
• introduce the LANGUAGES and CULTURES present in
  the classroom into a number of subjects.
• motivate teachers to IMPACT on a reform of
  language learning and teaching.
• strengthen professional NETWORKS by providing
  several international and national meetings.

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What is needed to avoid our bridges falling
down?
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What is needed to avoid our bridges falling down?

• Create strong links with other educators to
  empower language professionals through action
  research, by means of producing innovative
  materials, etc.
• Make a collaborative body of professionals with
  all the members of our educational community
  (head teachers, teachers, advisors, parents,
  social workers, NGOs ) in order to encourage
  democratic citizenship, social cohesion, mutual
  understanding and respect between the members of
  our community.
• Create networks with educational institutions and
  organisations at national and international
  levels to contribute to making the necessary
  changes in education in order to have fairer
  societies in the near future.

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