CI Kids Making Learning Visible

mAKING LEARNING VISIBLE DAY

CI Kids Courses | Practical Ideas

Lion Cubs | Lion Stars | Lion Juniors

2025

what is making learning visible day?

All CI Kids groups should have their Making Learning Visible moment during the same week. This coordinated approach helps build a shared culture around celebrating learning, making it a recognizable and anticipated event across the school. It also supports logistical planning, ensures consistency in delivery, and creates a sense of unity and shared purpose among students, teachers, and families.

Learners should be encouraged to make a live presentation as naturally as possible, genuinely showing where they are on their learning journey. This authentic approach helps learners feel comfortable and confident in using the language they’ve acquired, rather than aiming for perfection. It also allows families to witness real progress and understand that learning is a process.

This is the end-of-term event where young learners showcase key moments from the semester to their families, helping make their progress more tangible and boosting their sense of achievement.

making learning visible day

Learners should be encouraged to make a live presentation as naturally as possible, genuinely showing where they are on their learning journey. This authentic approach helps learners feel comfortable and confident in using the language they’ve acquired, rather than aiming for perfection. It also allows families to witness real progress and understand that learning is a process. Encouraging spontaneity and natural use of language reinforces the communicative purpose of learning English and validates each child’s individual pace and development.

This is the end-of-term event where young learners showcase key moments from the semester to their families, helping make their progress more tangible and boosting their sense of achievement.

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What is making learnign visible day?

Making Learning Visible is an end-of-term event which aims to show parents and guardians of young learners some of the highlights of the semester: this is a very special moment to make learning more tangible and arouse learners’ sense of progress: learners have the opportunity of displaying what they have learnt so far!

Here you will find some ideas on how

WHAT TO EXPLORE

PRESENTATION

PORTFOLIOS

SELF-ASSESSMENT

CLIL

PBL

PRESENTATION

Choose with Ss beforehand:

• some games.
• speaking tasks they've enjoyed.

This format of session counts on the presence and participation of parents / guardians, so:

• send invitations a week earlier.
• ask them to RSVP.
• prepare classroom layout.

PORTFOLIOS

You might:

• ask your Ss to help you select the activities.
• send parents/ guardians a copy.
• include a photo of the group doing it.
• ask Ss to write a short note or draw something they loved about the course.

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E-PORTFOLIO IDEAS

SELF-ASSESSMENT

You might

• decide to devise a session working on self-assessment and peer feedback. (You can use some ideas from this jamboard file).

• start revisiting some topics via games and speaking activities.
• prepare a moment for self-assessment and another one for peer feedback.

DOCS

CLIL

You might

• devise a session investigating some natural phenomena (e.g. rainbows).
• use the experiment as engagement and develop a portfolio activity.
• Ss can present their findings.

Check this video for ideas on how to carry out the experiment.

CLIL

KIDS

JUNIOR

PRE-KIDS

You may choose to work with some of the ideas in the Teacher's Book available in our shared Drive

You may choose to work with the CLIL activities (videos available in our Drive)

You may choose to work with a Wrap it Up video from the LXP

CLIL

KIDS

Session 25 - Creating a rainbow

JUNIOR

Session 25 - Creating hypothesis on water instruments.

PBL

Some possible projects are:

• planning (a garden, a school, a house, a business),
• designing (a school, a house, a city),
• creating a family tree
• creating a class mind map (showing relationships), etc.

QUIZ

You can:

• devise a quiz to be answered by Ss in teams or Ss and parents / guardians.
• use Google Forms, Google Slides, Wordwall or any other tool to create your Quiz.
• use this kind of activity for self-assessment too.
• You can also create a Jeopardy style game on Google Slides or JeopardyLabs.

The link below offers a wide variety of tests that you may use to adapt:

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useful docs

Moodboard Material Didático Guia do Aluno para Pais/Responsáveis Assessment Open House

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