ECML national support event in Helsinki,
Finland DRAFT PROGRAM, DAY 2: A quality assurance matrix for CEFR use
DAY 1
webcast
Local organiser : Finnish National Agency for
Education / Anu Halvari anu.halvari@oph.fi ECML expert : Dr Brian North, Eurocentres
Foundation
Date: Friday 1, March 2019 Venue: Finnish National Agency for Education,
Hakaniemenranta 6, Helsinki, 4th floor lobby More information: CEFR Companion volume See
also: www.ecml.at/CEFRqualitymatrix Time Phase / Content
9.30 – 9.50 Opening of Day 2: Representative of Ministry
of Education and Culture Ms Anu Halvari, EDUFI: CEFR in curriculum
development in Finland Introductions: Mr Brian North, the
participants
9.50 – 11.30 Brian North: Towards a broader view of language education:
the CEFR Companion Volume with New Descriptors Comment: Ms Raili Hildén, associate professor,
University of Helsinki Questions and answers / Panel of critical
friends
11.45 - 12.30 Break
12.30 – 13.45 Brian North: Introducing the QualiMatrix tool to support
CEFR-based innovation
Comment: 13.45 – 14.45 Hands-on experimenting with
QualiMatrix
14.45 - 15.00 Break
15.00 - 15.30 Questions, answers, reflections, sharing ideas
15.30 – 15.45 Conclusions, end of seminar Anu Halvari
The QualiMatrix is a web-based tool to support
CEFR-based innovation. A matrix of principled guidelines, promising
practices and further resources that can be used by different
stakeholders to implement the CEFR at the levels of policy, curriculum
development, teaching and assessment.
Using the quality assurance matrix may help
you to: • become familiar with quality assurance
procedures and tools that can facilitate and support effective
pedagogical practices; • conduct practical diagnosis of strengths and
weaknesses of any CEFR implementation; • promote transparency in CEFR-informed
curricular and pedagogical development within communities of practices.