Going from “have to” to “want to”

by | Mar 10, 2023 | ALL Language, ALL Local, ALL News, ALL Sector, Corporate Member, Discussion Area, Language News, News, Secondary, Secondary Features, Secondary News, Teacher Briefings, What's New

…when I’m thinking about HOW to teach some required content, the question I try to keep in mind to guide me is “why would they want to do that?” In this article, I will focus on how we can create engaging writing tasks that intrinsically motivate students… Please...

Mother Tongue Other Tongue Poetry Competition

by | Jun 19, 2020 | Arabic events, Competitions, French events, German events, Italian events, Japanese events, Language News, Mandarin events, News, Portuguese events, Primary, Primary events, Russian events, Secondary, Secondary events, Spanish events, What's New, World languages events

This year’s Routes into Languages East Mother Tongue Other Tongue poetry competition is now open. It is aimed at encouraging school students whose first language wasn’t English to share their Mother Tongue by remembering or creating poetry written in their...

Know an outstanding German Teacher?

by | May 11, 2020 | ALL Sector, CM Event, Corporate Member, Corporate Member News, German Discussions, German event, German Network, German News, German Zone, Language News, News, Primary, Secondary, What's New

Nominations for the 17th Annual German Teacher Award are open, again but are closing soon! Our wonderful colleagues at the German Embassy in London have extended their deadline to nominate your outstanding German Teacher!  Exciting!  So a reminder of what you need to...

Free Spanish Workshops

by | May 11, 2020 | ALL Sector, CM Event, Corporate Member, Corporate Member News, News, Secondary News, Spanish Discussions, Spanish event, Spanish Network, Spanish news, Spanish resources, Spanish Zone, What's New

  The Education and MFL Advisers at the Consejería de Educación (The Spanish Embassy Education Office in UK and in Ireland) together with Extenda, the Andalusian Promotion Agency have developed 8 free workshops for Spanish Teachers, starting on May 12th until...

Calling all Year 13 teachers and their students

by | May 11, 2020 | French Zone, German Zone, Language News, News, Other Event, Resources, Secondary, Secondary events, Secondary News, Spanish Zone, Student News, Wales, What's New

Professor Claire Gorrara, one of our inspirational speakers at Language World 2020, spoke to the conference direct from Cardiff University about the language mentoring project which started in Wales and is now available to schools in England through the Languages...