What would I say is the most important thing I would teach my students about my subject (in a CLIL context)? How would I assess their learning?

      If I were not limited by the demands of the national or regional curriculum, what would I say is the most important thing I would teach my students about my subject (in a CLIL context)?

How would I assess their learning? 

                     First of all I would like to mention the different option we have:

                 -Integrate content and language learning (the most important thing is content)

                -Integrate content and language learning while (the most important thing is the learning of the foreign language)

                 -Fully integrated teaching and learning of subject and foreign language.

                 Taking account these different points, I would evaluate depending on the age of the students, their level of the foreign language and characteristics of the group of students.

                  From my point of view the third option is the most complete of all, but for a successful class we need to have a group of student who has a good level of English and with the ability of learning at the same time content and foreign language. However, to finding all these characteristics can be very difficult.

                In spite of the perfection of the third option, I prefer the first option and the second options depending on factors like:

                  Second option (integrate content and language learning (we focus on the foreign language) I would choose this option if my students were children from 3 ages to third of primary, because the content is for the student more easier than the second language and besides the student at this age can learn quicker and in a natural way. In the future they could have a good level of English.

                  First option (we focus more on content learning) I would choose this option if my students would be from third to sixth of Primary because the content is more difficult and if we focus only on the second language they had a poor knowledge of the content which is very important for a child and for his and her development.

                  I would assess the learning of my students, depending on the two options:

                  I would pay more attention on foreign language competence in the first option

              I would focus the assessment on subject knowledge in the second one but never forgetting encourage students to use and improve their level of English.

                  To sum up, the factor of the age plays an important role at the moment of choosing,  which option we prefer.