MFL HoD. Advocate for growth & renewal in languages. Views expressed are my own. 🏳️🌈 he/il/er/هو
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12 Mar 2022
Any thoughts, @HmiWardle ? Lots of #mfltwitterati will want to know whether Ofsted stands by its Research Review, now that it has been so forensically unpicked and refuted by the very research community which the Review purports to represent. #ASCL2022
10 Mar 2022
"The Ofsted MFL Research Review and the associated 2022 GCSE Subject Content represent a narrowly focused prescription for a very limited approach to languages education in England".
Interested to know what @HmiWardle makes of the content of this Special Issue.
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Good news! We’ve been accredited by Ofqual. The new GCSE French specification and sample assessment materials are available on our website ready for first teaching in September 2024.
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5 Jun 2023
We are delighted to announce the launch of the 2023 edition of 'A German Classic'. This year's text is Franz Kafka's Der Heizer. All info here: ogn.ox.ac.uk/content/german-… @OxfordGerman @HLaehnemann @MflTransform @ukgconnection @OxMML_Schools @GermanReading1 @MLOE75531215
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24 May 2023
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Grsat conference for teachers of Spanish- Sat 24th June in Manchester at @InstCervantes by @ismla_uk #mfltwitterati
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Alongside @MMLL_Cambridge, @OxMML_Schools & @TranslationExch, I'm delighted to announce we have launched Think Like a Linguist. It's designed to harness expert knowledge at @Cambridge_Uni & @UniofOxford to change how students think about language learning: queens.ox.ac.uk/research-at-…
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30 Mar 2023
So presumably Ofsted & co would criticise Charles's language skills and whomever taught him because he didn't pronounce Familie correctly? Good example of the problem with the obsession with phonics.
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Calling all MFL Trainees and ECTs! @ismla_uk and @ALL4language language teaching conference at @wschool on Sat 22nd April. Booking here: tinyurl.com/ISMLAALL
Please share and retweet!
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11 Mar 2023
Make sure you have all filled in the Language Trends survey! #mfltwitterati
9 Feb 2023
📣 Heads of #MFL in secondary schools and language co-ordinators in primary in England.
Please complete our LANGUAGE TRENDS ENGLAND 2023 survey :
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11 Mar 2023
Do you have awesome German teachers in your school? Nominate nominate nominate!!⏬️⏬️
10 Mar 2023
Do you know a German teacher who deserves to be recognised for their incredible work? 🤔 Nominate them for the 2023 German Teacher Award! 😊🎉
The deadline to submit is 23 April, follow the link to find out more!👇
uk.diplo.de/gta
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11 Mar 2023
NCELP has gone - but what is it's legacy? For a short time, it permeated all aspects of MFL policy: tunnel-vision Ofsted research review which was largely slated by academics, and a flawed new GCSE which reduces standards & threatens to undermine uptake. DfE needs to press pause.
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10 Mar 2023
A great commentary on NCELP and its successor.
I'm excited for the new provider: here's to dogma-free capacity building which draws upon the full richness of research and empowers teachers with agency & ideas rather than scripts, lists and rules.
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9 Feb 2023
📣 Heads of #MFL in secondary schools and language co-ordinators in primary in England.
Please complete our LANGUAGE TRENDS ENGLAND 2023 survey :
Primary school: bit.ly/3I0D0NF
State Secondary: bit.ly/3YlLzYK
Independent School: bit.ly/3JOPhpS
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4 Jan 2023
So the PM is confident enough to announce that all pupils will be learning Maths till they are 18. But without knowing what aspects of Maths, who will teach it, or within what framework.
The latest in a series of cart-before-horse education policy announcements.
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4 Jan 2023
#mfltwitterati
ISMLA Conference
28th January, Westminster School, London.
Info and sign up here: ismla.co.uk/ismla-events/ism…
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23 Dec 2022
Ironic that the Minister so focussed on undoing what he saw as the destruction of standards through progressive practices has overseen the biggest & most deliberate downgrade of standards in MFL, through his new GCSE. @NickGibbUK
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15 Nov 2022
"Britons miss out both commercially and culturally by not being able to speak the langauges of their trading partners", says @thetimes: @NickGibbUK "should make a foreign langauge GCSE compulsory".
A fair demand which would put us back in synch with our global neighbours. 1/2
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15 Nov 2022
But also a demand which would require a) a bolder plan to tackle teacher recruitment, b) a bolder vision for the revitalisation of the MFL curriculum and c) a bolder commitment to solve the various problems with the punitive distribution of grades in MFL
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14 Nov 2022
Heartening to see ambitious investment in MFL: thank you to @NickGibbUK & DfE for recognising the value of languages.
But insisting that pedagogical methods are tied to an unconvincing review back in 2016 is unnecessary & could be counter-productive.
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11 Nov 2022
Pearson Edexcel draft new French GCSE also published here:
pearson.com/uk/educators/sch…
6 Nov 2022
Out this week (as far as I am aware): the @AQA draft sample materials for the new GCSE in French.
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31 Oct 2022
📣 TEACHER VOICE MATTERS 📣
We are back! 💧✨
Very excited to announce our latest free webinar taking place NEXT WEEK on Tuesday 8th November - details below. Make sure you grab your free ticket via the link in the next tweet!
#primarylanguages #mfltwitterati
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