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S02 Innovative curriculum design in languages: exploring opportunities for a more engaging and meaningful curriculum

Date: March 22, 2010
Location: Nottingham Trent University
Event type: Workshop

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School Children in group discussion in class

Summary

The course is very interactive and practical. Delegates will be given time to explore the principles of the New Secondary Curriculum and consider the implications for KS3 and KS4 curriculum design in languages. There will be practical examples from other schools and case studies for delegates to take back to school and disseminate and discuss with other colleagues in to facilitate departmental or whole-school developments. Teachers will be shown how the principles of innovative curriculum design are reflected in the Renewed Key Stage 3 Framework for Languages and in the revised GCSE criteria. 

The course will help you to:

  • Understand the key concepts of the New Secondary Curriculum for languages
  • Make languages a more meaningful and stimulating learning experience for pupils, planned into the core of Key Stages 3 and 4
  • Consider implications for redesigning schemes of work, medium term planning and short term lesson planning
  • Think about the best teaching approaches to secure progression in the innovative secondary languages classroom
  • Find more ways to encourage pupils to use language independently and for a wide range of purposes
  • Redesign language learning at a deeper level to allow pupils to use cognitive skills at an appropriate level for their age
  • Develop your understanding of planning content around “meanings that matter” to young people and consider the practical implications of this
  • Evaluate your current curricular balance between skills and “topics”
  • Drive substantial organisational change to raise the status of languages in your school’s curriculum

Target audience

  • Any teacher who teaches Key Stage 3 and/or Key Stage 4 languages
  • Heads of languages departments
  • Heads of other subject areas
  • Senior curriculum leaders e.g. assistant HT, deputy HT
  • Teachers responsible for Key Stage 2-3 transition in languages

Programme

This course aims to help participants to:


• Explore curriculum design in languages from a number of different, but related, angles.
• Clarify what kind of changes you would like to make at school through considering some examples of successful practice.
• Share and discuss ideas with colleagues.


It is divided into three modules. The first module looks at a number of cross curriculum approaches including examples of links with art, history and business & enterprise. The second module examines developing thinking skills with a clear language purpose including PLTs, memorisation skills and mind mapping. The third module looks at CLIL, fast-tracking GCSE, NVQ in Business Languages in Year 9 and beyond, and learning beyond the classroom.
 

Each participant will receive a USB stick containing all the course materials including Powerpoints and a variety of resources which can be used to disseminate training to colleagues.

 

Trainer: Mrs. Wendy Adeniji

This course will be delivered by Wendy Adeniji. Wendy taught French, Spanish and German for 10 years and now works as a trainer and consultant. She is the lead tutor for the CILT Graduate Teacher Programme in Leeds and regularly delivers MFL-specific interactive whiteboard training in schools. She has also acted as a consultant for the BBC digital curriculum, is the ICT consultant for Comenius Yorkshire and the Humber and has recently acted as consultant for a KS3 Strategy project relating to how interactive whiteboards can improve learning modern languages. She is the MFL moderator for the Ngfl Teacher Resource Exchange and writes regularly for the TES on matters relating to MFL.

Cost

  • In order to cover our direct costs, e.g. catering and guest speaker expenses, we charge £50 to attend this event.
  • Refreshments will be provided.
  • Each participant will receive a USB stick containing all the course materials including PowerPoints and a variety of resources which can be used to disseminate training to colleagues.
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