by cristahazell | Apr 8, 2020 | ALL Language, ALL Local, ALL News, ALL Sector, Corporate Member, Discussion Area, Language News, News, Practitioner Focus, Secondary, Secondary Features, Secondary News, Teacher Briefings, What's New |
This year’s summer exam series in UK, including A levels, GCSEs and other qualifications, and all primary assessments have been cancelled to fight the spread of coronavirus. On 20 March 2020 the DfE announced that the exam regulator, Ofqual, and exam boards would work...
by cristahazell | Mar 25, 2020 | Action research, ALL News, ALL Sector, Corporate Member News, Discussion Area, Events, Features, How to, Language News, News, Practitioner Focus, Primary, Secondary News, Teacher Briefings, Uncategorized, What's New |
In the context of the current pandemic and governmental advice about avoiding / limiting personal contact or staying at home entirely schools and teachers are looking for ways of using technology and self-study approaches to help students continue their language...
by cristahazell | Mar 17, 2020 | ALL Event, ALL Language, ALL Local, ALL News, ALL Sector, Arabic event, Arabic events, Arabic News, CM Event, Corporate Member, East Anglia, East Anglia Event, East Midlands, East Midlands Event, Events, French event, French events, French Network, German event, German events, German Network, German News, Italian event, Italian events, Italian Network, Italian News, ITET events, ITET news, Japanese event, Japanese events, Japanese Network, Japanese News, Language Networks, Language News, London, London Event, Mandarin event, Mandarin events, Mandarin news, News, North East, North East Event, North West, North West Event, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Event, Other Event, Portuguese events, Portuguese news, Primary events, Primary News, Project News, Russian event, Russian events, Russian Network, Russian news, Secondary, Secondary events, Secondary News, South East, South East Event, South West, South West Event, Spanish event, Spanish events, Spanish Network, Spanish news, Student, Student Events, Student News, Teacher Briefings, Trainee events, Uncategorized, Wales, Wales Event, West Midlands, West Midlands Event, What's New, World Languages, World languages event, World languages events, World languages news, Yorkshire & Humber, Yorkshire & the Humber Event |
Dear Colleagues, In light of the rapidly changing circumstances and advice around Covid-19, the decision has been taken by ALL Management Board to cancel or postpone all events, workshops or seminars up to Easter 2020 (12th April 2020) with immediate effect. We will...
by cristahazell | Feb 24, 2020 | Action research, ALL Sector, Corporate Member, Discussion Area, Initiatives, Pedagogy, Practitioner Focus, 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 10, 2020 | ALL Language, News, Pedagogy, Practitioner Focus, 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....
by Clodagh Cooney | Sep 10, 2019 | Teacher Briefings |
In preparation for the new academic year, we have prepared four teacher briefings for Primary Languages: What Primary Language coordinators need to know: Background What Primary Language coordinators need to know: The Primary Coordinator’s Handbook What Primary...
by Clodagh Cooney | Aug 21, 2019 | Teacher Briefings |
An advice document (July 2019) was produced by Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) in association with British Council and National Governors Association (NGA) to assist governors, trustees and governing boards to support language learning in their...
by Clodagh Cooney | Jul 12, 2019 | Teacher Briefings |
Language Trends is an annual survey of primary and secondary schools in England, designed to gather information about the current situation for language teaching and learning. Please explore our recent Teacher Briefing on the report.
by Clodagh Cooney | Jun 12, 2019 | News, Teacher Briefings |
The new Ofsted EIF (Education Inspection Framework) has been published. The Framework is a considerable size (around 100 pages) and is detailed. The extracts contained in this Briefing do not represent the totality of its content by any means. An article based on a...
by Clodagh Cooney | May 17, 2019 | News, Teacher Briefings |
The British Council’s Vicky Gough’s Last Word article in Languages Today (January 2019) outlined issues affecting the traditional School Exchange (and Study Visits) in some sectors and some, but not all, parts of the country. Since then there have been...
by Clodagh Cooney | Apr 18, 2019 | News, Teacher Briefings |
OWRI is the Open World Research Initiative, funded by the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council). It aims ‘to regenerate and transform modern language learning by foregrounding language’s power to shape how we live and make our worlds.’ There are four...
by Clodagh Cooney | Mar 7, 2019 | Italian News, News, Primary News, Secondary News, Student News, Teacher Briefings |
Background: A considerable number of advisory documents, reports, campaigns and recommendations have emerged in the public domain in the last few weeks, many of them with input from ALL members. This Briefing (necessarily longer than usual) provides a few selected...
