Below find some extra links which you may find interesting follow on reading after our debrief.

We hope that you have enjoyed participating in the Primary-Secondary KS2-3 Transition Project this year and thank you all for your enthusiasm and collaborative spirit!

 

Suzi and Sally

 

FYI This conference at The University of Aston on Tuesday 3rd July may also be of interest:

http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/network-for-languages/transitions-conference/

It may be worth contacting mick.james@aston.ac.uk  to ask if there is a trainee teacher reduction - currently the early bird fee (before 31st May) is £95

 

 

Here are Emma's resources and music links should they be of interest to you. You can visit her blog here: http://emmaatk.posterous.com/ 

 

 

I hope you find today useful - please share this with your departments and don't be shy to email me any questions or comments or to ask for supporting documentation.

 

Suzi

suzi.bewell@york.ac.uk 

 

 

 

Please find below most of the materials relating to my presentation on The Importance of Intercultural Understanding (Content vs. Culture?) from today.  

I am looking forward to a really exciting, information-packed day with lots of opportunities to network with like-minded languages lovers.  What better way to spend a day!

Regards,

Suzi

 

Great start with Joe Dale giving a fantastic key note called "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Box Out!" This session is being live streamed and you can find the video footage here: http://coursecast.soton.ac.uk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer/Default.aspx?id=a92de052-3... So lovely to see all of the #mfltwitterati! More later Suzi     Session 1 Carole Nicoll - Song! Rap! Humour! Motivating ways of making your classroom rock. Teaching speaking as a group activity? Via song. It all started with Carolw taking her daughter to a boyzone conference!!! Intonation and pronunciation covered. Project with local school children in Aberdeen schools. Children are connected to music and motivated by it Baby byoncé video clip. Genius. Baby boy earning Beatles Song. Auditory cortex - stays there forever. "Korean Baby" Eddie Izzard - French clip. Now for some joining in... Football song in Spanish Body Parts in Italian Buenos días. Buenas tardes. Pencil case action song French. (give me hope in my heart keep me singing) Available to download and buy on iTunes. Every song has a Karaoke version. Comedy value in the form of the "In my briefcase" song!!! We also watched The Choir - Urban Edit "Sense of sound." - funky streetwise choir. Primary videos of children using their knowledge of language from songs. Colours song German. "Welche Farbe ist das? J'al les cheveux song Derrière, deviant song. Vamos Chicas. Now we are well and truly warmed up. Tears at the end of the session watching the Albert Hall clips of The Choir! Awesome. Music even reaches the tough nuts!!! Elevator clip at end - the wonders of technology. Memory recall. Www.language-factory.co.uk Www.carolenicoll.com ITunes Carole Nicoll - 500 language learning songs Carole is on twitter @CaroleNicoll317 Session 2 I do, I understand. - Clare Seccombe Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may not remember Involve me and I'll understand. Building on ks2 experiences - aim for smooth and seamless and built on firm foundations. Primary learning is often characterised by active learning. Clip on YouTube - passive learning. Anyone? Anyone? Anyone for some pupil led learning??? Flash cards and working with a friend. Dominoes and Shape Puzzles. Help sheet for MFL teachers also available. Spanish Fiestas linked to months of year. Continuous loop. Pairs to work this out...Insert photos. Human Dominoes. Line large dominoes up on the floor. Group according to gender etc. Then as a group do the domino task. Shape puzzles using Tarsia formulator - pictures and words or sentences. Starter and Plenary puzzles also on MFL Sunderland. Mac version available! Yippee. Trash or Treeasure sorting exercise. ¿tresoro o basura? Poubelle ou coffre? Insert photo - classification activity. Basic primary egs but so much potential for secondary! eg verbs and tenses. Decisions Decisions - Barbapapa in Dutch. Using trash or treasure board - what did you see on the video? Number fans and split pins - plenaries cinq plus deux? Grid in rainbow colours - great assessment tool. Human graphs Stand in the correct place and assess orally once students are in place. Need a large space. Lines Using physical washing lines or standing in line with cards. Multi link cubes or duplo / Lego Amazing links to pictures and using bricks for kids to order the activities. V memorable learning. ¡Zas! ¡Paf! Kids splat the correct hand picture. Singing and MFL Un grand serf example with actions. "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results." Changing phase site Spanish@stpauls Ideas education Sponsored Slots - Sparklespeak BonjourMilo! Stories. Delegates get a free sample disc in #ililc2 goodie bags. 33% off during the show. Currently in French with a longer term aim of developing the stories in other languages. warm up video to enter Milo's world. Each disc contains print outs of Milo and Amélie Characters. Lots of repetition and developed on the idea of the power of 3. Storyslider idea. This is brilliant! www.youtube.com/sparklespeak Collection of Classroom Language Songs Cheap and Cheerful Songwriting Stuart Gorse MFL Teacher Lancaster LGS @gorsey mrgorse@aol.com www.youtube.com/mrgorse Stuart's philosophy on learning and teaching is quite something! Stuart knows what's going down, brother... www.dicodesrimes.com Stuart showed us @mfe146 Mike Elliot's fantastic video clip called 'La Santé". You can find it here: http://mikeelliott.posterous.com/sante-quand-jetais-jeune Arsenal double club competition: Catchy tune, attractive prize, topical with a chorus in English around the theme of the Olympics. We then heard some extracts from Stuart's super talented sixth form students 'la veuve Saverini' based on a short story (Guy de Maupassant) had read in class. The Ramones and El Pueblo - an example from Stuart's punk rock band. Blitz Lipscreen Bop - shouty punk. Mama Mia rendition of a French song about daily routine. Green Day Good riddance - Quelles étaient les meilleures vacances de ta vie? Using backing track via karaoke version. See YouTube: This clip is fabulous! Many more YouTube clips to be found on Gorsey's channel. Day 2 Keynote José Picardo - Embracing social media The nub of José's keynote is that there has always been a reluctance to change when talking about freedom of communication - examples of the printing press, postal service , allowing calculators in lessons and even having rubbers on the ends of pencils. The Internet is not going anywhere and so we should embrace this and make the most of the tools around us. Danger - thin ice! Technology and rigour are both possible. http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/prensky%20-%20digital%20natives,%20digital... Interesting research by Prensky on Digital Natives and Digital immigrants Pupils these days are producers of social media as well as consumers these days. Is banning tech in lessons a good idea? Are there positive ways of using tech in lessons as pupils have this tech in their pockets. Twitter en 1991 - insert photo http://nearwen.com/2012/01/twitter-en-1991/ Bad behaviour (not passing for example) has always occurred - it is NOT the fault of the tools. Knock down the school walls and bridge the gap between school and home. Learning on demand. Child centred learning - adapt your teaching to the way pupils learn. Do what is right or the Learners! Technology allows you to do new things in new ways. How to get around the 'it will never work' mentality? Enhancement to Transformation. Voki as a gimmick. Then used for setting speaking as homework. No need to take out 2 lessons to do this with individual pupils. Dept Blog, glossier, blogging on trips, Flickr page to share photos, Facebook page, Sixth form and staff tweeters, Edmodo... Use of social media has meant that there is a big buzz about languages in José's school. Tools used alongside good teaching. josepicardo.com and @josepicardo on Twitter

Last month I got an email from my Union asking if I would like to attend the 2012 Regional Early Career Teachers conference at the Hilton in Gateshead. The programme looked good with a focus on SEN, Behaviour Management and Ofsted new assessment. All of these being hot topics in ITE, I decided to attend and left Mr Bewell home alone with the kids for the weekend. Win! On arrival, I firstly observed that I was definitely at the older end of Early Career Teacher!!! Joking aside, I had a great weekend and am now keen to get more involved with the work of my union, who are desperate for new, even and young(er) active members. The people I met were engaging, intelligent and keen to learn and the training was of a very high quality. The resources from the event can be found here: http://www.rect.org.uk/ I hope you find them useful. If, like me, you have never attended a Union CPD event, my advice would be to go for it. I am now hoping to attend another event in late Marg linked to International Development work... Always learning. All the best, Suzi

What a busy week it has been.  Below please find links to 3 articles which I wrote linked to MFL Learning and Teaching.  I hope you find the content useful.  Please, as always, feel free to leave a comment or a question if you need any clarification.

 

Best wishes to you all,

Suzi

The Importance of Intercultural Understanding in MFL 

http://www.boardworks.co.uk/mfl_694 

 

Skype makes sense!

http://bit.ly/w53ceu 

ICT in MFL (Rethinking Homework) - see page 10 

http://tinyurl.com/SECEDICTMFL 

With thanks to @pwhenshaw from SecEd for allowing me to publish this.

Ok mfltwitterati, it was suggested this evening that I make t-shirts for the conference and I am happy to so (as long as there are just a few of us!!!)

 

Please leave a comment with size requirements below and I will get onto this asap.

I think we can have our twitter names on front and avatar /photo along with the mfltwitterati hash tag and then ililc and hash tag on back...How does that sound?

 

Will try and source the t-shirts this weekend - should be no more than £5 each...

 

Ooh I do love to sew and craft!

Sx