Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 17 December 2015
587. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of a roll-out of partial immersion programmes for the Irish language, where 50% of subjects are taught through Irish to 20% of primary schools, not including Gaelscoileanna. [46296/15]
View answerGuidance on the use of CLIL (content and language integrated learning) will be included in the materials being developed by the NCCA to support the implementation of the new Primary language curriculum for infants to second classes. This will be introduced to primary schools from September 2016. In fact, the new curriculum for language was launched on line at www.ncca.ie last Tuesday.
A comprehensive continuing professional development programme is in place to support the implementation of the new primary language curriculum. Teachers will, as part of this professional development, receive advice on the use of different methodologies to teach Irish and to use Irish as the medium of instruction.
