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Brush up on language skills abroad
CILT, the National Centre for Languages is running a Primary Teachers’ Project, which gives teachers a chance to spend two weeks in France, Germany or Spain next spring topping up on their language skills and picking up new teaching ideas. Image – Arc de Triomphe Teachers spend one week in intensive language and methodology workshops [...]
Things I’ve discovered on Twitter recently (part 5)
Here is a selection of some interesting and educational things that I’ve found recently, via my Twitter network: Zooburst – This amazing site lets you make your own 3D augmented reality pop up books (via @relativism, @xannov and @ianaddison). Application for Headship - Information and advice for those who need to write a letter of application [...]
New TEFL qualification
Frontier is working with Edexcel to offer a new TEFL programme – The BTEC Advanced Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. This is a customised course which is accredited by Edexcel as a level 3 qualification. Volunteers taking part on Frontier’s teaching projects for 4 weeks or more are able to sign up [...]
New Education Apps
EducationApps have been busy building lots of new iPhone and iPod Touch apps for use in education. Here are some of their latest additions: Ultimate Times Tables – A fun way for children of all ages to learn their times tables. This has four different types of tests and allows up to five users to [...]
My French Resources
MyFrenchResources is an extremely valuable site for teachers of KS3, KS4 and KS5 French. It is full of downloadable resources, all clearly organised by year group and topic. Lots of the KS3 resources might also be useful for older KS2 students. www.myfrenchresources.com The site’s Welcome page, also has some useful display and assembly resources for [...]
Free Resources – Sport Relief
The countdown to Sport Relief 2010 kicks off this month with the launch of exciting, free education resources for primary, secondary and early years groups. The resources, spanning the English, physical education and citizenship curriculums, bring alive the stories of young people in the UK and overseas. Sport Relief’s School Kits are available to order [...]
More Language in our school
There has been a big leap in the number of primary schools teaching children foreign languages. Minister for Schools and Learners Jim Knight welcomed news that 84% of primary schools now teach children another language, up from 70% on the previous year and nearly double the 44% in 2002. Research from the National Foundation for [...]
Learning French?
Just thought you might be interested to know that the French program I recommended a few weeks ago is on a time-limited special offer. If you are thinking of learning French, or if you have to learn it and hate using text books, a CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) approach might work better for you, [...]
Struggling To Learn French?
From around the middle, to the end of last year, I posted quite extensively about the choice to teach French rather than Spanish at primary school. I won’t go back over the reasons, as they are there to read, but the fact remains, no matter what argument anyone puts forward in favour of teaching a [...]
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