by cristahazell | Feb 24, 2020 | Action research, ALL Sector, Corporate Member, Discussion Area, Initiatives, Pedagogy, Primary events, Secondary, Secondary events, Teacher Briefings, Uncategorized, What's New
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...
by cristahazell | Feb 18, 2020 | ALL News, ALL Sector, Corporate Member News, Discussion Area, News, Uncategorized
Need help inspiring learners, their parents and perhaps colleagues as to why they should be learning languages? Looking at the science of learning and why it’s never too late to learn a language, read the article and review of The Bilingual Brain by Albert Costa...
by cristahazell | Feb 18, 2020 | ALL Sector, Corporate Member, Discussion Area, News, Uncategorized
What role do languages, humanities and social sciences have to play in shaping the 2020s? Nine Fellows of the British Academy, representing a wide range of academic disciplines, set out the challenges and opportunities they see for their subjects over the next decade....
by cristahazell | Feb 18, 2020 | Brexit news, Discussion Area, News, Uncategorized
The much loved and highly beneficial ERASMUS scheme is again under discussion. Read the latest article from the BBC here. The rest of this post can only be viewed by members. Please click here to...
by cristahazell | Feb 18, 2020 | Corporate Member, Discussion Area, News, Uncategorized, What's New, World languages news
Since publication, this article and infographics ranking the 100 most spoken languages around the world has been causing a bit of a stir amongst teachers, especially languages teachers, across the globe. If you love languages, read more here. The rest of this post...
by cristahazell | Feb 10, 2020 | ALL Language, News, Pedagogy, Secondary, Secondary News, Teacher Briefings, Uncategorized
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....
by cristahazell | Feb 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
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by cristahazell | Jan 30, 2020 | Action research, ALL Language, ALL Local, Corporate Member, Discussion Area, How to, Language World, News, Secondary, Secondary events, Secondary News, Uncategorized, What's New
Professor Neil Kenny, one of our Language World speakers has been commenting on the British Council released from Monday, focusing on the gender gap in modern foreign languages at GCSE. Read more here The rest of this post can only be viewed by members. Please click...
by cristahazell | Jan 27, 2020 | ALL Local, Discussion Area, How to, Language News, News, Secondary, Secondary News, Uncategorized
A new report from the British Council with forewords from Sir Ciarán Devane, Chief Executive of the British Council and David Laws, Chief Executive of the Education Policy Institute, this new report comes in two parts; Part 1. Schools that are beating the odds....
by charlottelr | Jan 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
Thousands more young people will have the chance to take part in international exchanges and visits thanks to a new £2.5 million programme, the Education Secretary announced today (19 January). Funding will ensure more disadvantaged pupils can experience other...
by charlottelr | Jan 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
There’s just over a week left to apply for a bursary of £1,000 to boost your UK-German partnership this year. The bursaries can support pupil visits and joint activities taking place in 2020 and are open to both you and your partner school. All you need to do is...
by cristahazell | Jan 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
As the Erasmus+ funded project ELAPSE moves towards its launch a Language World in Manchester UK in March 2020 we asked some of the project partners what they are most looking forward to when resources become available. Read more here glimpse 1 The rest of this post...
