The Common European Framework in its political and educational context What is the Common European Framework?

Teachers should realise that their actions, reflecting their attitudes and abilities,
are a most important part of the environment for language learning/acquisition. They
present role-models which students may follow in their future use of the language and
their practice as future teachers. What importance is attached to their:
a)
teaching skills?
b)
classroom management skills?
c)
ability to engage in action research and to reflect on experience?
d)
teaching styles?
e)
understanding of and ability to handle testing, assessment and evaluation?
f )
knowledge of and ability to teach sociocultural background information?
g)
inter-cultural attitudes and skills?
h)
knowledge of and ability to develop students’ aesthetic appreciation of literature?
i)
ability to deal with individualisation within classes containing diverse learner types
and abilities?
How are the relevant qualities and abilities best developed?
During individual, pair or group working, should the teacher:
a)
simply supervise and maintain order?
b)
circulate to monitor work?
c)
be available for individual counselling?
d)
adopt the role of supervisor and facilitator, accepting and reacting to students’
remarks on their learning and co-ordinating student activities, in addition to mon-
itoring and counselling?
6.4.2.3
How far should 
learners be expected or required to:
a)
follow all and only the teacher’s instructions in a disciplined, orderly way, speaking
only when called upon to do so?
b)
participate actively in the learning process in co-operation with the teacher and
other students to reach agreement on objectives and methods, accepting compro-
mise, and engaging in peer teaching and peer assessment so as to progress steadily
towards autonomy?
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c)
work independently with self-study materials including self-assessment?
d)
compete with each other?
6.4.2.4
What use can and should be made of