PRACTICE AND EVALUATION OF THE KEY COMPETENCES THROUGH THE ENGLISH OPTIONAL DISCIPLINE MODULE: THE EARTH, OUR HAUSE

Abstract

Key competences represent a combination of knowledge, skills and attitudes that can be practiced during the whole educational journey, necessary for personal development, social inclusion, for training in order to integrate the labor market, being actually fundamental and essential for the life learning.  For the young pupils, key competences can be successfully practiced in an optional discipline, modularly organized, with English as communication language.   The theme of the module, ,,The Earth, our hause†has specific contents to the area of sciences – the environment exploration and the English, as communication language. Through an interdisciplinary approach, it was built an integrated curriculum, having exercised competences from the fields of Science, Mathematics, personal development, practical skills, Arts, society education, too. The proposed objectives had taken into consideration knowledge accumulation concerning the reduce, recover, recycle and reuse of materials, same as language skills and social attitudes. The completion of an integrated curriculum has enabled a dominant participatory evaluation, focusing on the assessment of the practiced competences.