Transition Year
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WEBSITE: Infographics meets 21st century key skills
Very clever pictorial chart linking key skills with corresponding emerging technologies. Produced by American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).
Perhaps you could print a copy for the staff room?
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The Big Picture Of Education Technology: The Padagogy Wheel
The “padagogy” wheel is diagram based on Bloom’s Taxonomy that incorporates digital tools into its designed. For each level of the taxonomy, digital tools are suggested that can help students perform different tasks but require different levels of skill and cognitive load. This can be a useful planning tool to help you to design appropriate activities for students using ICT.
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Using song clips in the languages classroom
Tahis resource from the PPLI provides ideas of how to use songs in the languages classroom. There are a number of quick and helpful tips that you can use to use songs to reinforce vocabulary, grammar, ideas and structures.
To download this resource as a PDF, click here
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7 Engaging MFL Activities That Make Your Classroom an Awesome Place to Be
Remember the excitement you felt that morning when you had something special prepared for your class, an activity that you know they would just absolutely love? This log entry gives you 7 ideas of how you can do this in your languages classroom.
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Language Learning and Students with Special Educational Needs
This resource was produced by the Association of Language Learning in the UK. Over twenty years have elapsed since the British government introduced a National Curriculum for England and Wales requiring all 11-to-14-year-olds, including those with “learning difficulties”, to follow a modern foreign language course. This “entitlement”, as it became known, was due to be extended to all 14-to-16-year-old students at a later date.
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How To Create a Personal Learning Environment to Stay Relevant
“Our understanding of learning has expanded at a rate that has far outpaced our conceptions of teaching. A growing appreciation for the porous boundaries between the classroom and life experience…has created not only promising changes but also disruptive moments in teaching”.
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CPD: ICT in the Post-Primary MFL Classroom (PDST)
This is a highly interactive course containing videos, practical examples, advice and resources to assist teachers in integrating digital technologies effectively in the teaching and learning of modern foreign languages.
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Raising the profile of languages in your school
As part of our work we would like to support teachers and schools in raising the profile of languages in post-primary schools. In order to do this, we have compiled a list of suggestions to help modern foreign language teachers raise the profile of languages in their school, most of which require zero budget. Begin with a few and increase the numbers of suggestions you act on over time and collaborate with colleagues across language departments. Please send us your own suggestions too and we can add them to the list.
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VIDEO: Authentic language & culture in the classroom
Authentic language and culture in the classroom: Slam Poetry (French) from Vitall Project on Vimeo.
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My Talking Avatar (Tutorial): Oral Work
My Talking Avatar Free is a free iOS app which is wonderful for promoting speaking in the languages classroom as it lets you create an animated character and record your voice for up to 5 minutes as a video. You can also add your own background image or create one in an app like Pic Collage as an example of ‘appsmashing’.
Click here.
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Culture boxes
What do you see in a culture?
It’s all a question of perspective… “Making the familiar strange and the strange familiar’ and ‘making the general specific’ are two intercultural education strategies.
Culture boxes can be used as a starting point for intercultural reflection in the languages classroom. They also support the teaching and learning of the socio-cultural knowledge and intercultural awareness.
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Dyslexia in Multilingual Contexts
This is a presentation given by Dr. Deirdre Martin from the School of Education, University of Birmingham at the NALDIC Conference in 2011. Although it is a older resource, its content as an introduction to why dyslexic students should learn foreign languages is still useful.
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