Theme: Effects of high-quality professional development on teachers and students Background: A new report (February 2020) from the Education Policy Institute undertakes a detailed review of the evidence on the impact of teacher professional development. The Key...
Theme: Boys and Languages This is an overview of a very recent report led by the British Council and the Education Policy Institute published in January 2020. The report comes in two parts: Part 1 looks at the background, while Part 2 looks at schools’ strategies....
Theme: Current initiatives concerning Languages Background: This is an overview of initiatives ALL members are aware of currently; some emerge from the several papers published in March 2019 (as reported in Briefing 7: ‘Live language learning issues’). APPG (All...
In preparation for the new academic year, we have prepared four teacher briefings for Primary Languages: Teacher Briefing 13: What Primary Language coordinators need to know: Background Teacher Briefing 14: What Primary Language coordinators need to know: The Primary...
An advice document (July 2019) was produced by Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) in association with British Council and National Governors Association (NGA) to assist governors, trustees and governing boards to support language learning in their...
Language Trends is an annual survey of primary and secondary schools in England, designed to gather information about the current situation for language teaching and learning. Please explore our recent Teacher Briefing on the report.
