Spotlight on Schools: Español en Acción: Empowering and Engaging Students with Collaborative Peer-Led Spanish Lessons
← Go Back In this edition of ‘Spotlight on Schools’, Gloria Enrique at Sacred Heart School, Tullamore, showcases how a collaborative, student-led project facilitated Transition Year students to plan and deliver a thirty-minute lesson about a Spanish topic of their choice to the rest of their classmates. Learn more about this project below: <<View our […]
Quizlet – Tutorial
← Go Back Quizlet is an online learning platform that offers a variety of tools and resources to help students study and learn effectively. It provides a wide range of study materials, including flashcards, quizzes, games, and study guides, across different subjects and topics. Users can create their ownstudy sets or access sets created by […]
Blooket – Tutorial
← Go Back Blooket is an online educational gaming platform designed to engage students in learning activities through competitive gameplay. It offers a variety of game modes and activities that can be customised by teachers to align with subject specifications. Blooket allows teachers to create and share interactive games with their students and the platform […]
Spotlight on Schools: Recognising and Valuing Home Languages in our School
← Go Back In this edition of ‘Spotlight on Schools’, Emer Marschner at Woodbrook College showcased how the school recognises and values home languages to foster a welcoming environment and provide good accessibility for curriculum content using the ILAOS (An Intercultural Look at Our Schools) toolkit. Learn more about this project below: <<View our full […]
Spotlight on Schools: Using Peer Teaching in TY
← Go Back In this edition of ‘Spotlight on Schools’, Catherine McAuliffe presents a TY project in which her students deliver short MFL lessons to first-and second-year students during a carousel activity, and discusses the potential positive impacts on both student cohorts who take part. Learn more about this project below: <<View our full Spotlight […]
Spotlight on Schools: Welcome to a Japanese World!
← Go Back In this edition of ‘Spotlight on Schools’, Ichiyo Shibata and Yumina Asakura, two foreign language assistants in Japanese, showcased their methods for organising and using Culture Box. A ‘Culture Box’ is a teaching and learning tool that connects different cultures and expands possibilities in the teaching and learning of other languages. It […]
Spotlight on Schools: Creating Authentic and Cross-Curricular Learning Experiences
← Go Back In this edition of ‘Spotlight on Schools’, Hee-Jung Lee, a Korean teacher at Ardscoil Rís, demonstrates her approach to creating authentic and cross-curricular learning experiences in a Transition Year. The project drew on students’ target language skills and their pluricultural competence through a simulated first-person immersive experience. It also deepened students’ understanding […]
Spotlight on Schools: Let’s Speak Ukrainian
← Go Back In this edition of ‘Spotlight on Schools’, Áine O’ Donnell and Pearl Heneghan, teachers at Summerhill College, Sligo, demonstrate a whole school approach to welcoming Ukrainian students to the school community. This project encouraged Irish students to learn the basics of the Ukrainian language to facilitate communication and to help Irish students […]
Junior Cycle Short Course in Polish as a Heritage Language
← Go Back Polish Junior Cycle Short Course in Polish as a Heritage Language: Specification >> Junior Cycle Short Course in Polish as a Heritage Language: Assessment Guidelines >>
Junior Cycle Short Course in Lithuanian as a Heritage Language
← Go Back Lithuanian Junior Cycle Short Course in Lithuanian as a Heritage Language: Specification >> Junior Cycle Short Course in Lithuanian as a Heritage Language: Assessment Guidelines >> Why learn Lithuanian? >>
Junior Cycle Short Course in Japanese Language and Culture
← Go Back This 100-hour course is based on the Generic Short Course in Modern Languages which was, in turn, developed using the Framework for Junior Cycle (DES, 2015) and the Junior Cycle Short Courses Draft Handbook ‘Developing Short Courses in Junior Cycle’. The course provides the ‘learning statements’ and key skills which all short […]