Promoting language competence in all subject areas as the key to success at school

Curriculum 21 lists the promotion of school language competencies as something all subject areas must address. This article reports on a further education offering for schools considering how this re-quirement can be implemented.
The school-based further education offering presented was developed by Zurich University of Teacher Education in cooperation with the FHNW School of Education. It is available to schools as part of QUIMS-component C, "Assessment and support with a focus on language", from 2019 to 2026.
This article explains how the school-based further education offering was co-designed as a joint initia-tive by external experts and representatives of the individual school. This is complemented by a dis-cussion of
aspects of language-aware subject teaching. In addition, the article shows how teachers work on the
quality of their pedagogical and methodological activities within the scope of school-based further ed-ucation. Concrete examples are drawn from kindergarten and primary teaching in the subject ‘NMG’ ("Nature, Man, Society").