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Language Leaders Award

Language Leaders Award. Rachel Hawkes. Rachel Hawkes. What does it do for young people?. reward their language learning give them a purpose and context for their language skills develop their generic communication and leadership skills

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Language Leaders Award

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  1. Language Leaders Award Rachel Hawkes

  2. Rachel Hawkes

  3. What does it do for young people? • reward their language learning • give them a purpose and context for their language skills • develop their generic communication and leadership skills • give them a better understanding of themselves as learners • give a better understanding of the role of the teacher • enhance their self-esteem and confidence • improve their evaluative and analytical skills • increase their personal attainment in a foreign language Rachel Hawkes

  4. What does it involve? • suggested 25-30 hours delivery of course • MFL teacher who can be explicit about aspects of pedagogy (ITT mentor) • Continuous assessment by teacher • Minimum of 1 hour (4 x 15 mins) language activity planned, delivered and evaluated by the language leader (assessed by teacher) Rachel Hawkes

  5. Language Leaders Award Overview of the course Rachel Hawkes

  6. Autumn Term: Developing teaching skills Spring Term: Planning own lessons Summer Term: Teaching in Primary Rachel Hawkes

  7. Preparing to teach: Autumn Term – developing skills • Language of the classroom • Getting pupils’ attention • Basic progression in language learning activities • Plan one activity to teach to the group • Culture of the TL country – think of two things you can do to bring a cultural dimension to your lesson • Games for language learning • How can you use music, rhythm, song, movement or drama to help your pupils learn Rachel Hawkes

  8. Planning 3 lessons: Spring Term • Get into groups of 2 or 3 • Know which school/which language/which year to plan for • Choose topics and language to teach • Plan 3 x 1 hour teaching (each student to deliver independently 20 minutes each time over 3 successive lessons to the same pupils) • Prepare resources and materials • Practise with peers and receive feedback Rachel Hawkes

  9. Teaching in primary schools: Summer Term • Go out to primary schools to deliver lessons • Teacher to accompany and evalutate Successful completion of your one hour’s independent teaching = Language Leaders Award Rachel Hawkes

  10. We now offer our Language Leaders Award as an Activities Award through ASDAN. When asked, they agreed they would customise their Activities Award certificates to say ‘Language Leader’ and the language.Of course it is also possible to generate your own ‘in house’ certificates but we felt that registering students for the Activities Award (£4.50) was more official. They receive a book to record their planning and describe their experiences, and append their materials. I collect all this in at the end of the scheme, look through it (have obviously seen them teaching their sessions too) and then I submit names to ASDAN and the certificates are generated. Contact at ASDAN:barbarabension@asdan.org.ukYou would need to contact her and have the conversation – it is not a standard thing they do!

  11. Contact name: Jas Malhi jas@i4cpublicity.co.uk i4c Publicity Ltd3 Broad StreetCoventryCV6 5AXTel:  02476 667440Fax: 02476 663736www.i4cpublicity.co.uk Rachel Hawkes

  12. The first Language Leaders Award scheme was produced by Sports Leaders UK and followed on from their Sports Leaders Scheme. However, it does cost £40 for the file and £12 per student. The ‘course’ as such is really the interaction the teacher has with the students to prepare them to teach – it is like mentoring ITT students in lots of ways and is organic and develops during the sessions. The only reason to ‘hang’ the process on an official scheme of any kind is so that the accreditation is in some way external to your own school – this is for me its only purpose, so if I can get that from ASDAN with £4.50 then that is preferable to me! The pins on the previous slide are by far the most beloved part of the reward from the students’ perspective and they are organised by us privately with the company listed there on the slide.It is quite possible that I will in future generate the certificates in house and just have those and the pins but for our 50 Language Leaders this year, I’ve gone for ASDAN again.

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