East Midlands Regional Centre

Professional development courses in your area

Contact information

Bronagh Marlow
Regional Administrator

email: linkseastmidlands@ntu.ac.uk
telephone: 0115 848 6843
fax: 0115 848 6513

Location

Nottingham Language Centre
Nottingham Trent University
Burton Street
Nottingham
NG1 4BU

NEW! Spring/Summer brochure

The East Midlands brochure featuring details of Links courses has now been sent out to schools. It features details of Links courses taking place up to June 2010.

To access your copy:

Download: East Midlands brochure (pdf, 864 Kb)
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What's happening locally?

New Short Mobility Programme for Teachers between the UK and France

See our news section for more details.

Head Start 2010, a free one-day course on introducing Japanese at your school, plus a Japanese language taster

See our news section for more details.

The interactive classroom: moving the classroom walls

Nottingham Trent University- 1st March 2010

In the first module you will learn how to harness digital technology to develop oral interaction. This practical, hands-on session will allow you to create dynamic, audiovisual resources to use with pupils the very next day, and show you how to make the best use of a variety of programs to help pupils improve their speaking skills. Comprehensive delegate notes will provide you with clear, step-by-step instructions to help you use technology to improve pupils’ pronunciation, confidence and engagement when speaking. The use of Audacity, PowerPoint and Vokis will be demonstrated as these can promote creativity, collaboration and personalisation in speaking work, while their role in promoting international links will be considered.

In Module Two, ‘Developing Pupil Speaking Skills’, a different approach to traditional speaking activities will be introduced and practised. The Group Talk project, winner of a European Award for Languages in 2008, demonstrates how pupils can quickly become confident when speaking in small groups, using spontaneous responses, colloquial language, opinions, conjecture and debate. The four stages of Group Talk will be thoroughly explained and video clips will demonstrate how it can work in a real classroom environment. Practical sessions will show you how it can be used and you will consider how to implement and extend the use of Group Talk in departments.

With the focus of the day firmly on practical, tried and tested strategies, you will leave with a wide range of ideas to help your pupils becoming more motivated and confident when speaking, which could lead to improved attainment at GCSE.
Register online.

Reaching Out conference

3rd March 2010 Leicester

The SSAT and CILT have teamed up to bring you the Reaching Out conference. Hear about current best practice, and receive guidance and information on implementing the three strands of the community outreach programme: primary, secondary and wider community, including business engagement. This event is suitable for senior leaders, heads of languages, languages subject leaders and language practitioners, as well as those responsible for the community programme and community cohesion.

Workshops will focus on how to reach out to the community through languages, and leading practice in developing partnerships with:

Other schools.
Business and industry.
Community groups.
International links

For further details, please contact Lauren Steyn on 020 7802 0746.

The French Insitute in London offers a free training day for French PGCE students and secondary teachers

19th March 2010

Please see our news page for further details.

Would you like to improve your language skills as well as benefit from spending a week in a primary school abroad?

Please see our new section for details of the Primary Teachers Project.

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