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....
