tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65537545956960984502024-03-05T00:18:15.995-08:00Elvisrunner MFLElvisrunner - Musings from an MFL classroomelvisrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13592638992010357279noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553754595696098450.post-74134521779767257762015-06-15T12:57:00.002-07:002015-06-15T12:57:30.967-07:00Golden Nuggets<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In amongst all the madness that the summer term brings (especially with new curriculum and new GCSE specs to plan for) a group of us have had the opportunity to go to another school to pick up some new and fresh outstanding ideas for teaching. Maiden Erlegh was the venue, and we were there for two days, one session last Tuesday and again today. This gave us an opportunity to try out tasks that we had tried on the course before today. Admirably led by Martin and Kat, we left the first day buzzing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Who doesn't love a post-it for engagement...! The Golden Nugget sheet was given to us at the start, with a pile of post-its, at the start of the session. The purpose is to gather key points throughout the session, the ones that make you think "Wow, that's the one!". The sheet has 6 boxes on, and if you found yourself with more than 6 golden nuggets, you have to then work out which one you drop off. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This was the first thing I trialled on my return to the classroom. My year 10s (who are split between 3 teachers) are very reluctant active participants and collaborators, so I am forever trying to find ways to inspire them. They are also still very wobbly with tenses. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I introduced a new perfect tense acronym, PAPP, and stripped back to the basics of the tense. Person, Auxillary, Past Participle. We spent the lesson working through this, and I had given them the golden nugget sheet at the start. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The task for this was on a sheet. All that was on the sheet was an outline of a body and the question "What makes an outstanding teacher?". In groups we bombarded the page with our ideas in the set time (3 mins) given. The feedback was done in groups, going around the room with each group saying something they had written, that hadn't been said before. Questions were asked for more detail, but the idea was to be the last man standing - have more responses than any other group. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">1. Year 9s have been researching Burkina Faso for their projects that they are working on in groups. So in their groups, I set them to task on an outline of the country and said it was a competition. They flooded the sheet with facts and figures, using their research notes. They then took turns in groups to say one of their facts, with the idea that they would gain facts from others as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This is a task that I have started to trial with year 10s, to increase their confidence with spoken French, but also with working together confidently. In essence, students sit back-to-back, or next to each other with a barrier in between them, with a Spot The Difference picture each (which I label A and B to aid myself!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The students then take turns to make a statement about their picture, so that together they work out what the differences are - by speaking to each other, not by showing each other the pictures! It seemed the perfect opportunity to reinforce prepositions, and use "il y a...", over and over. So at the moment the students have started to work together with someone else who has the same picture (so A students work with A students to prep), mainly to gain the specific vocab. They will then be in a position to work with a B student back-to-back. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The best part of the sessions is when one of the leaders, Martin,</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> asked with every session, "How will you differentiate that?". So it is all well and good coming up with an amazing resource, but the key idea is that it can be differentiated for all. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So this half term we have 4 weeks until we 'rollover' to the new timetable. Last half term all students in KS3 sat their end-of-year exams, which means now our focus is totally on skills, challenge and engagement, rather than levels. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>(As background, Years 7 and 8 have been on a carousel of language-learning this year, which has been a challenge (a positive one), which means the students don't know one single language thoroughly. Instead, they have tasted French, German and Spanish, and they have now chosen the language they want to focus on from the new year onwards.)</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Therefore, we (the MFL dept) worked together to create mini-projects that would cover the 4 weeks of June, continue to challenge the students and ensure they used their language skills.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For Year 9, we are focusing on Burkina Faso, and the outcome of the project will be based on their colour groupings (see a number of my previous posts).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In Year 8 we are working on a unit based on Talent Shows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Year 7s are working on a Gruffalo project, which has so far been very well received. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The first 2 lessons have been based on the <a href="http://www.edel.com/de/audio/release/ilona-schulz/das-grueffelokind-mit-grueffelo-song/" target="_blank">Gruffalo song</a> (song 3) (available to anyone who wants it!):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Text analysis a-go-go, students' knowledge of the Gruffalo book helps but certainly isn't essential. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Students have started to create their own Gruffalo songs, with support from a writing frame, and we even reached the sunny heights of <em>um...zu....</em> phrases - after only a term of German. The lessons have been filled with challenge, and the students have been much more engaged. A good thing about this project is we are trialling it for the new curriculum for year 7 in September. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Once the students have written their own version of the song, we will be focusing on compound nouns for all the foods that the Gruffalo likes to eat! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I shall keep you posted!</span>elvisrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13592638992010357279noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553754595696098450.post-65851798802792041472015-03-16T13:57:00.002-07:002015-03-16T13:57:44.085-07:00My #ililc5 Experience - Saturday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It is almost a month since #ililc5, and it most certainly did not disappoint. I cannot tell you how much I look forward to this weekend every year, not only for the new ideas and approaches I learn, but also for catching up with good friends (not just virtual colleagues). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">What I have been doing since then (to explain the delay of this post) is treading water, and in between times trialling ideas borne from #ililc5. So I am going to go through the sessions I went to, and feedback already on things I have tried.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There are often many posts on Twitter about takeaway homework, so I wanted to see how to go about it, and to leave with some ideas for my department. There are many ways to set it up, and many different tasks, so I will definitely be trialling this next half term.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">The session brought up many questions, which led to some good discussions about homework. We also discussed tweaking the sample menus that we were shown, by maybe adding POINTS to each task - 10 points per 'easy' task, 50 points for more complex tasks, so students didn't just plump for an easy task. Set a points target for the homework.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">James also used <a href="http://www.padlet.com/" target="_blank">PADLET</a> to collect student feedback in one place. It reminds me of Linoit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This session was extremely insightful, and it was great to watch students being brought very much out of their comfort zone from the very start. The idea is that students are made to feel confused and unsure momentarily at the start, and as they progress through the tasks, they learn more and more to be able to redo the original task/question much more confidently. Confusion is brought into the equation to heighten the challenge and to induce engagement. Ryan has found that extreme challenge and group-based investigation have enriched his lessons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Ryan has changed how he delivers lessons as a response to the following:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Students start the lesson off with a multiple choice task, when they stand in a different part of the room, depending on what they feel the answer is. This is an even better task if the students have no reason to know the answer. The example given to us was a History question, and I think it helps to put yourself in the shoes of students when you do something like this in a subject other than your own. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Ryan then gave us tasks to inform us further, this time relying on team work and collaboration. All the while, we knew that what we were learning and discovering was helping us answer the original question.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The key aspect of this session for me is that the students are doing most of the work. The onus is on the students to investigate, to not be dependent upon the teacher. The role of the teacher in this style of lesson moves from that of a leader and teacher to one of a roving prompter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We discussed what makes a good investigation (which should be featuring in tasks and lessons):</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Clues</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Gradual informing</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Team work/collaboration</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Checks at key junctures</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Intrigue</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Intense challenge</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Confusion</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">An example of this is with Time teaching - instead of starting simply, give them the most complex phrases first, because they already know numbers and should be able to investigate the structure and work out what each bit means. This moves away from the repetition and spoon-feeding. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This ties in really nicely with my Bloom's section of my talk - why give the majority the simple structure and cap the complexity? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ryan showed us a 'highlights' video of a lesson, in which Year 9s were accessing a Drugs lesson in Spanish. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Mixed sentences (stuck underneath the tables) - unjumble in groups - point of confusion, as the sentences are quite high level</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">clue for the sentences around the room - work together</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">translation</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">ranking</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This was great, as it showed progress, engagement, independence, and the role of the teacher was to further question and prompt so that the tasks were accessible for all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We had school review week last week, which meant nervous colleagues came to ask advice about lessons. As a direct response to this session, I recommended the "Confusion" strand to the lesson, the starter of "stand in the appropriate place" and collaboration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So thank you to Ryan for this session. I will definitely be investigating this further - using Easter holidays to create Investigative lessons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">At ililc5 (see my previous few blogs) I talked about our POG groups (Colour Differentiation groups) and Bloom's Questioning, and how that can fit into teaching MFL.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Above is a grid set up for a Running Dictation, using a text from Echo 1, for Year 7. To summarise the POG groups, POG stands for Purple Orange Green, and the students are allocated to their groups based on their end of year target level:</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I am very conscious that we don't always use the right wording in our questioning, because students are working in a different language. But while we are asking the students to refine their language learning skills, I continue to develop how we stretch and challenge the students. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. <strong><u>Compose</u></strong> a better version of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Frau Schütte’s paragraph<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am using this tomorrow - will let you know!</span>elvisrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13592638992010357279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553754595696098450.post-40360439227831961002015-03-05T12:15:00.002-08:002015-03-05T12:26:17.031-08:00Missed out on #ililc5?<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just in case you missed out on the brilliant weekend, here is a list of fab blogs offering details about it all. It is also for my benefit, so I can find them at the click of the button.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It was so good, I usually find choosing the top 5 new things to try quite an easy task. Not this time!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Thank you to Zena and the team at Southampton Uni for an excellent time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In no particular order:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Amanda Salt - @amandasalt: <a href="http://amandasalt.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Languages and Learning</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Jonathan Peace - @trekkiep: <a href="https://trekkiep.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Give Peace Just One More Chance</a> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Clare Seccombe - @valleseco - <a href="http://changing-phase.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Changing Phase</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Jane Basnett - @basnettj - <a href="http://staffrm.io/@janebasnett/RO9vszSnXO" target="_blank">Staffroom post</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Alex Bellars - @bellaale - <a href="https://alexbellars.wordpress.com/2015/03/05/ililc5-from-zeitgeists-to-cupcakes/" target="_blank">N-Gauge</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I shall keep adding, as they appear and as I find them!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During my presentation at #ililc5 I talked about student reflection and DIRT time, which is something we are trying to improve and get right at school. I forgot to mention it in my <a href="http://elvisrunner.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/now-theres-challenge-ililc5.html" target="_blank">presentation blog</a>, but that isn't a bad thing, because there is a lot to say about student reflection so it warrants its own blog post.<br />
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At the moment, our school policy for student feedback and reflection is two-fold. <br />
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While I acknowledge and recognise the things that need to be shown in exercise books for the sake of monitoring, policy and tracking (and that bastard O word), I am a huge believer that the ONLY reason we should write anything in the students' books while we mark is for student progress. The <strong>only</strong> good to come of all the time-consuming pressure of marking has to be the increase in student confidence, participation and performance. <br />
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I refuse to be a puppet to box-ticking.<br />
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So at the moment, for TPGG, I ask the students to reflect on previous work, to improve work, to add ideas, to redraft, all with the purpose of reinforcing skills. All with the purpose of increasing the students' belief that they can do it.<br />
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Our DIRT sheet, which I showed the delegates at #ililc5, is now being trialled - one group per teacher - to see how they work and what improvements/tweaks need to be made. This is what it looks like now:</div>
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This is for one half term. The students read and respond to the TPGG feedback at the start of the lesson. They then enter what they have to do to improve - this is to prevent the students from replying "behave" or "do my work" when asked by observers what they need to do to improve. They date the TPGG evidence of their first step to improvement. </div>
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The danger with simple reflection is that once the student has reflected, they will forget that skill or improvement. A simple example I gave to the delegates was:</div>
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This could be evidence that our type of reflection may be less effective. So our next two columns on the Dirt Diary are for students to show the relevant skill again in a piece of work later on in the unit. Over the weeks, students have their own personalised check list of skills that they need to remember and practise.<br />
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This means that the feedback to students need to be worded correctly, so they know which skills they need to focus on:<br />
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I shall be writing a new blog at the weekend, as the students in my trial group will be working on their reflection time tomorrow. I will also show the progress of the students' work, to see if it works!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The quote above sums up why the #ililc conferences are so crucial for teachers. It is so important that we have access to as many ideas, pedagogies and approaches as possible to keep our methods of teaching - and the students' methods of learning - fresh and relevant. What makes being part of the #MFLTwitterati so worthwhile is that every week feels like a mini-version of the #ililc weekend - always learning, always sharing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I chose to deliver my session on the idea of Challenge and Differentiation. I believe that if there isn't suitable challenge in your lessons, then the differentiation isn't right. And if you differentiate your tasks, then there will be challenge. I believe the two are inseparable.</span><br />
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I started off my session, not only with this quote, but also with the reminder that I most certainly do not claim to have the answers, and that I wanted the purpose of the session to be to prompt discussion and reflection, which are crucial for continual development and improvement. I also said, although not as coherently as Lisa Stevens did in her Keynote soon after, that everyone in the room is an expert, and just because some of us have presented that day, they should not be overwhelmed or question their standing in the room.<br />
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Speaking of standing, the session started with Rachel Smith not being able to sit on a chair properly. Which ruined my opening comedy-fall-off-my-chair routine I had planned.<br />
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So how can we challenge? Many ways: An idea of how is noted below:<br />
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While I am not going to go through each of these one by one, they all crop up and are intertwined. One of the big ideas that we are tackling at my school at the moment is the idea of the I CAN attitude - or the I CAN'T DO IT - YET approach. Students (and I know this isn't just at our school) would rather not attempt a task than run the risk of 'failing' - even though we want students to fail to be able to improve. It is ok to get it wrong. <br />
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I have retweeted the picture below on a number of occasions, because it holds so much truth in it. <br />
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But I needed to understand what that looked like in a classroom. How do we teach/train the students to have a growth mindset? If I had a penny for every time I counteracted a "I can't do it" with an "Of course you can", and went through the processes that students could adopt for the task... So imagine my joy when, during a parents' evening at school, I found a brilliant section in a fab <a href="http://www.freespirit.com/teacher-resources/professional-development-books-cd-roms/differentiating-instruction/advancing-differentiation/richard-m-cash/" target="_blank">book</a> about how to go about this! Advancing Differentiation by Richard M Cash suddenly made it clear, in a few lines, in a sort of class pact:<br />
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With that CAN DO in mind, I then set the delegates to task on an eye-drawing mission. <br />
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We did this at school in a mini-TeachMeet delivered by our Head of Art. It showed how to overcome the "I can't draw" attitude, as well as modelling different levels of ability, and step-by-step improvements. Students can start improving at the level they deem appropriate. Hello challenge and differentiation. <br />
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The discussion then started, and we questioned whether it would have been better for the initial drawing if the 5 eyes were on the board. But that wouldn't show the inate starting point of each student. In some instances it might be the appropriate way to start. As I said, I don't have all the answers!<br />
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I then wondered how we could apply that to MFL lessons and tasks. I trialled it with Year 9. I asked them to work in pairs to write a weather forecast, with no further input. <br />
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I then asked them to compare their report to my 4 samples (equivalent of the 5 eyes) on the board.<br />
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Once the students had worked out which one their report compared most to, they then had examples of the skills needed to be used to move up to the next example. Students understand (because of our colour group differentiation - see below!) that they do not have to stop at the next level, but they can move from red to blue, if they have the skills but just needed reminding.<br />
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Something I have developed, trialled and embedded across the department is Colour Differentiation Groups. We call them the POG groups (Purple Orange Green - high order stuff!) and the grid above shows how we use the target levels to group the and allocate the students to differentiation groups. We use these in class - not for every task, not every single lesson - and the students all know which group they are in and why. It is a really easy way to set differentiation tasks - we use the same texts for reading, the same soundfiles for listening, but set different questions for the different groups. Below is an example from a year 7 class - it was a running dictation and students were grouped in POG groups (one of each colour, where possible). <br />
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On creating this resource, I also tried to increase the complexity of the questioning (thank you, Mr Bloom) as I went through the POG groups. I am very mindful that, traditionally, when we plan lessons, we challenge fewer and fewer students with the higher order thinking skills as you go up the triangle of Bloom:<br />
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This relates to @EddieKayshun's Spaced Learning session - are we right to begin a topic with delivering individual words to the whole class - shouldn't that be the differentiated delivery for the least able? Shouldn't we allow all students the chance to rise up, instead of capping their skills/development?<br />
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Is this the way to go? This means that we are going to be adding a GOLD level for high achieving Purple students to aim for.<br />
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Continuing the idea of different levels of entry, different starting points and choice, I asked the delegates to spend 5-6 minutes designing their own versions of the "Today's Number" that was doing the rounds on twitter a few weeks ago:<br />
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I worked on an example which I have trialled - <strong><u>my challenge to anyone reading this is to make your own version, adapt it, and then Tweet it - let's have a #MotdeJour tag as well! (Oh, and tag me in as well!)</u></strong><br />
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Time was ticking closer to the end of the session, and with thanks to Gill Ramage, MFL Advisor in Suffolk, I finished with the following slide, showing what Blooms looks like in an MFL lesson: <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKUGCuPQjr9LdyNigHJhU794wv-IXpXcG-daop0MoTDBmbNRlm1cVzp7Yjm_sZyDeLe_5ZNNnlaa66VJhb-bdxclQAEbbh8EUT2kDscJ0SMbcCCf2in8fqxPuh7uwnrL6sXqTfkRYTj2vV/s1600/bloom+holiday.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKUGCuPQjr9LdyNigHJhU794wv-IXpXcG-daop0MoTDBmbNRlm1cVzp7Yjm_sZyDeLe_5ZNNnlaa66VJhb-bdxclQAEbbh8EUT2kDscJ0SMbcCCf2in8fqxPuh7uwnrL6sXqTfkRYTj2vV/s1600/bloom+holiday.png" height="454" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last month I posted about a <a href="http://elvisrunner.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/ready-steady-go.html" target="_blank">method</a> I was introducing to ensure that the hard work put into Controlled Assessments (which I hate - much-logged in my blogs over the last year or two) by the students was not forgotten on the completion of their work. Usually what happens is you begrudgingly lose hours to the students working in exam conditions on the preparation of their CAs, during which time there is nothing you can to support the students. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And once the students have written the coursework up in neat, or sat their speaking exam, you then move on to the next unit, because time is so precious and binding. The CAs are locked away safely, ready for moderation and the posting off to the exam board.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The chance for feedback is lost. Which is why I have decided to trial the traffic light system of feedback, to develop the next steps of challenge and AfL for the students.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Once the CAs are locked away and no longer accessible by the students, I read through their work (or listen to it), and give them their feedback on a form, as shown below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">My trial is with our Year 10 French group (I see them once a week, it is a shared group).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I then collated the information in a very simple spreadsheet, so that I have a record which I can add to my tracking file. Just by looking at this it is clear that everyone in the class has a different combination of strengths and weaknesses, and therefore a brilliant and simple starting point for differentiation and challenge. is created </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Straight away the delivery of the next unit sort of starts shaping itself, as far as grammar focus and challenge is considered. It is evident in pretty colours which students need to focus on which skills. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For the CA feedback lesson, I booked the library, so that students could work and learn on the computers while I spoke to students individually. Before the lesson, I created learning zones on <a href="http://www.memrise.com/" target="_blank">Memrise</a>, which the group has loved from the start, and hunted for other Memrise learning games for specific skills. Below is a snippit of my homepage, so some pages are not relevant to this post):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Each student was given the hand-out below,(only because my request of putting it on the Shared Drive hadn't quite happened, rather uncharacteristically!), so they could find the appropriate link, guidance and practice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By using Memrise, it is possible to track students' learning time, as long as you have set up the 'games' yourself. It is also a fantastic tool to encourage home learning. Students love that it is available on an app as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">When students sit their next CA, intervention should have happened through focused differentiation during the delivery of the topic to ensure that the students are in a position to improve. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">By doing this, there should be improvement throughout the CAs, and, therefore, students are more than likely to reach their potential, if not more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, it's that time of year again! Time to order your t-shirts for #ililc5. The photo shows the shorts from the last two years, which we traditionally wear at the show-and-tell on Saturday eve. But you can order them even if you're not attending that part of the weekend. They have an MFL/ililc themed logo and your Twitter name on the sleeve. You can't get better than that!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Colour suggestions welcomed although I may have to make the final decision if there are too many choices! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We have had Fruit of the Loom shirts so far, and they are good quality. The price is normally £11.50-£12.00 for the shirt, printing, postage and VAT.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If you would like to order one, please can you either send me a direct message on Twitter (with your size request) or comment below. Payment will then be requested by electronic payment (preferably) or cheque once the order is in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chest (to fit) S - 35/37", M - 38/40", L - 41/43", XL - 44/46", 2XL - 47/49", 3XL - 50/52"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Requests and orders by 10 Feb please. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Thanks,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I dislike that I haven't blogged for 2 months. That sort of sums up last half term, I am afraid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So here we go! The rebirth! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I have logged many a time on here how I feel about Controlled Assessments, and what a waste of teaching time they. I also dislike that they are an empty vessel, as far as constructive feedback is concerned, as we aren't allowed to mark drafts, not even comment on them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So I have tried to work out a way to help the students improve their writing after coursework, and I am still trying to develop it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We are also a PiXL school, so our focus and monitoring is often through PLCs (Personalised Learning Checklists - click <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jorawlings/plcs-27935913" target="_blank">here</a> for a cracking slideshow about them) and dashboards (which I keep getting told off for saying!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Anyway, I feel the level and depths we go to assessing, monitoring and logging of the students is far deeper than I ever have been, working out the individual strengths and weaknesses of the students.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Anyway, back to the controlled assessments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Traffic-lighting skills. Which will help to focus differentiating tasks in lessons to ensure that the weaker skills shown by students are relevant and appropriate. More of that to follow!</span><br />
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elvisrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13592638992010357279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553754595696098450.post-7503545329723003142014-10-09T13:42:00.001-07:002014-10-09T13:42:32.468-07:00Jenga - revisited<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The last post about Jenga was on my Posterous (RIP) blog, so unavailable. And as it is, I have since developed and increased the usage of the resource.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Primarily for me, Jenga is a great resource for encouraging spontaneous speech, for encouraging team work and reinforcing vocab.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Label all the bricks 1-6</span> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(If you have more than one set, mark all the bricks in each pack with a colour, so that if bricks go astray, you know where they belong!)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Consider 6 questions you want the students to spend time working on, orally, so that each time they take a brick out of the tower, they have to respond to that question in as much detail as possible. This is very good CA preparation.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The aim for the students should be to give more information every time they answer the same question. Because I only have 8 in that group I let them choose who they played with. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Establish the ground rules from the start - wait for the person to give their answer before playing on. The boys want to destroy the tower but not lose, so they just ignore the one giving the answer</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Each time a brick is removed, they have to translate/answer the phrase/question that corresponds to that number on the sheet. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Consider having a quizmaster/scorer for this. You can also have a Group Talk score sheet, as I have mentioned before.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Lots of varieties - feel free to share your version!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So I have started using something archaic - pen and paper - to keep an overview on tasks I have done with each class.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I have a spreadsheet with lots of different activities listed on it, and all my classes. Each time I do one of the activity types listed, I put the date in the relevant box. That way, I know I am doing a range of activities, and also that the lessons aren't stale or predictable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Unfortunately, the session was at the end of Ofsted Day 2, but I still had ten keen colleagues attending.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We all love to jazz up our resources with pictures, cartoons and the like (surely this comes second to visiting stationery shops?). .gifs are a more engaging version, and there are thousands upon thousands available, and you will always find one that is relevant to your topic. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.gifs are tiny snippets of video real, 1-2 seconds long, that just repeat on a loop. They are good to have on the board as the students walk in, especially if it triggers prediction, thought, hypothesising, questioning etc. There are some very entertaining .gis available that can be used purely as a hook as the students walk in, or to link task to task to maintain engagement. Examples given were:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">PE - could use a clip of a skill or muscle-action as a hook.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Science - could have a clip of a particular reaction to discuss/predict/hypothesise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">History - a snippet of an era/important moment relevant to what is being taught.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I often use Tumblr, but a colleague at the session also pointed out that you can access a lot on Google images, with an advanced search.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The website addresses are <a href="http://quizlet.com/latest" target="_blank">Quizlet</a> and <a href="https://create.kahoot.it/#login" target="_blank">Kahoot</a> - have a play, look for quizzes already available for your subject area, and then get creating!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I first started at my current employ, homework was very rarely done, as it had very rarely been set/marked/monitored. So my quest was to find homework tasks that engaged the students, and made them want to do their homework, and to then to have pride in it. We are still finding ways to achieve that with a positive hit rate, but LinoIt really helped to engage the students. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For those unaware of how it works, students create <a href="http://www.linoit.com/" target="_blank">post-its on a canvas</a>. Pictures, documents and links can be uploaded on there, so it can be used as a resource bank as well for any particular task. You can also add feedback post-its as well, as you can see in the picture above. My username is <strong>mflcostello</strong> (outdated by name), so sign up and have a look at how it can be used. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I didn't go into too much detail about QR Codes, partly because nobody was able to get an internet signal in my room, but also because our use of mobiles (or lack of) in school restricts the amount we can use QR codes on a daily basis. But the potential of QR codes is huge, and we use them on our displays, as students have their mobiles with them before and after school, so are able to zap any QR codes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This idea may seem MFL-specific, but it isn't! When we use video clips or DVDs in target language (French/German/Spanish), students are often put off, firstly because "it's all in foreign" and secondly because the subtitles "move too fast". So to introduce them to the notion of watching the subtitles and not so much the picture, I play Subtitle Bingo. We played this at my <a href="http://elvisrunner.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/in-at-deep-end-ililc4-presentation.html" target="_blank">session at #ililc4</a>, so some members of the MFLTwitterati will be familiar with this. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It is very easy to prep. You watch a 2minute clip with the subtitles on, and note down as many words as you can. (For non-MFL subjects, this may be longer!). You then use the words to create a number of bingo cards. Print off, distribute, and then play the clip with subtitles twice. It is a great way to train the students to watch the subtitles, but is also great to practise word-recognition (hello, literacy tick-box!)...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This session is best described in my blog from #ililc4, when I learnt all about <a href="http://elvisrunner.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/ililc4-subtitle-yourself-james-gardner.html" target="_blank">creating your own subtitles</a>. It is a great way of posting key words, questions, tasks on a YouTube video, so the students can watch the video and carry out tasks, without having to continually look at a sheet. The uses in any subject area are plentiful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I wasn't in a position to show the visualiser in action, because I had forgotten to install my visualiser on to my school laptop (I blame Ofsted entirely). But colleagues at the session were entirely in agreement on its merits. DT use them, Music could see that showing a piece of music played on a keyboard from above had huge advantages... <a href="http://teachertoolkit.me/2014/06/03/using-ipevo-in-the-classroom-by-teachertoolkit/" target="_blank">@TeacherToolkit</a> has recently blogged a great piece about them </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Observations wait for no man. My last <a href="http://elvisrunner.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/handing-control-to-students.html" target="_blank">formal observation</a> was the day after I lost Scout. Today's observation was following a no-sleep weekend after Nightrider. Which is why making sure your lessons rely heavily on student-led tasks is crucial.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Today I was observed with my challenging yet small year 9 group. To put the situation into perspective, we have Exam Week next week, with all year groups sitting end-of-year exams in most subjects. The week commencing June 30th sees the start of the new school year and our timetable rollover. So we are delivering a lot of revision lessons to our classes in KS3, and really pushing y9 French students to Levels 5 and 6.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The main purpose of the tasks today was to increase the confidence of students when they come across longer texts, as many of them still look at a Level 5/6 text and reverse away from it. (I find myself doing the same with very long emails, so I know how they feel!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So the first couple of quick-fire tasks served to remind the students of the patterns and importance of "é" and "ai" in tenses, which we had spent some of last lesson really getting on top of. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The group is small, their team work is sometimes questionable, but two tasks they love are Cluedo and Trapdoor. So we were working on them when the observers arrived. (It is too late to spot the spelling mistake!!!!!!!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next up was the team work element of the lesson, to pull key info out of the given texts. I used question styles from the exam papers, so they are used to the style. It was also the chance to use my <a href="http://elvisrunner.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/buzz-word-bingo-differentiation.html" target="_blank">differentiation by colour</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Students were put into 3 groups, which had one student of each ability group (set by target level). The task was a <a href="http://elvisrunner.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/running-dictation-and-other-animals.html" target="_blank">running dictation</a>, and each group had the same task sheet. On that task sheet was a differentiated task by colour. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So... the outcome of the observation? </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">I didn't have my full quota of students until 20minutes in, because of assembly over-running and some students being held back for a roasting over uniform. Which meant they arrived in a less then positive frame of mind</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">One student was outside waiting to be removed by on call when the observers arrived</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Two (normally very reliable and focused) girls refused to take part in the whole class game of Cluedo, because of the two other teachers in the room.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the positive side of things, the participation in the group games of Cluedo and Trapdoor was great, and once the students had started the running dictation, I was delighted with their levels of understanding. I was disappointed then when the observers left after just under 20mins, because they didn't see the task in full flow. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The lesson was deemed to be Good. It wasn't awarded Outstanding because they couldn't work out how much progress was being made. We did a plenary at the end to recap the patterns, examples and time phrases for the past and future tenses. In retrospect I should have made it really clear (even clearer) how vital nailing the tenses are for levels 5 and 6.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So my question to you all is... How can you quantify/measure confidence and reinforcing to prove to non-specialist onlookers that the students can perform better at the end of the lesson than they could at the start? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll be darned if I know right now. I shall give myself time to ponder. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was Nightrider #4 for Gemma and me, and this time we had two new team mates - Burrows and Shiney - which made the adventure even better. Happy in the knowledge that we had raised over £1000 for Spinal Research before we started, we were really looking forward to it. Especially as the weather had been so awful for most of the week, and the skies had cleared ready for the ride.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This year we started at Crystal Palace for the first time, instead of Alexandra Palace, and I think I preferred it. Our start time was 11.15pm, and we didn't have much waiting around, which meant our timings for the evening were perfect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The first part of the ride was quite frustrating as we headed into town. It was very stop-start with so many traffic lights to get caught up in. I looked at my Garmin watch to check the mileage, and we had gone 12 miles in 1h30 because of so many red lights. But the camaraderie with all those around us was excellent, making it much more fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The first stop was Tower Bridge, which came upon us without warning! We normally hit this point at sunrise when we start from Alexandra Palace. But this time it was stunning...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I didn't go to the Olympic Village in 2012, and now, having cycled round it, I regret it. I could imagine how amazing the atmosphere felt. It was fitting that our 2nd stop was right outside the Velodrome. A great setting to refuel amongst so many cyclists. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was amazing, on a warm night, how quickly our temperature dropped, and we were glad to set off again when we did, as we were all beginning to cool off. We headed off through Hackney and Haringey - interestingly enough, on the map it shows no place of interest in that stretch! I don't remember seeing any, but that's perhaps because I was bracing myself for the Ally Pally hill! Last year I cycled all the way up, but had a stop half way up. This year the bollards half way up were my target, and I used them this year as well. Gemma cycled beside me to encourage me up, and I said to her that I would stop at the bollards and then cycle again. She set off, so she didn't lose momentum. I reached the bollards and carried on, and made my way to the top without stopping - which I was so proud of, as this was the first time! My breathing was very laboured at the top, but nothing that ventolin couldn't resolve!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We warned the others about the hills after the epic descent from Ally Pally, but I had forgotten (or my brain had shut out) the 3 hills... I only remembered 2! Lordy! But again, I didn't stop on any of the hills, and just kept pedalling! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The most bonkers sight of the night goes to Picadilly at 4.30am. It was absolutely heaving. It was congested, with many very impatient car drivers, tooting and honking unnecessarily! Once we were beyond the official photographer, the roads were much emptier. Again, it was great to chat to cyclists around us, while we waited patiently for our turn to move on through the traffic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The most breathtaking view of the ride was on Waterloo Bridge, as the sun was coming up. Almost every single cyclist to make the turn up onto the bridge pulled over, as the view was stunning. It suddenly made cycling for 5 hours completely worth it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Thames was the deadest calm I have ever seen, and the sun was just beginning to reflect on the London Eye and surrounding buildings. We could have stayed there for an hour, watching the changing sky. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">However, crack on is what we needed to do, and as we turned our way around the eastern part of the city, we came back out onto Westminster Bridge, where we stopped again for photos, and we worked out that we had just over 10k to go. And it was a great 10k to finish on. We headed around Westminster Square, along Whitehall, through Marble Arch and along the Mall to Buckingham Palace. It was the first time Nightrider has taken us that route, and what a brilliant addition! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The final stop was at the Imperial War Museum, and it was great to be there in daylight (for photo opportunities). We took on more calories ready for the final pedal and set off. I knew the Crystal Palace hill was going to be tough, regardless of which way up we went - I think the final road up to Crystal Palace has changed nearly every year. Sure enough, the climb was gradual and then brutal. But again, with the help of Gemma and Burrows, I made it up. Hills are mind over matter, and it felt good to blast them into touch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Getting the medal at end is always a great moment, as is tucking into the bacon sandwich at the end. I was so pleased to have shared it with more friends, because it is an incredible achievement. Finishing the event always leaves me wanting to go off on my bike for proper adventures! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We definitely put our backs into it, and we will be back next year, for sure! Very proud of all of us for our pedal power!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had an Inset Day on Friday. Which means we have had 3 short weeks on the trot. They are far more exhausting than 3 normal weeks. Go figure!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Part of the day was set aside for department time (how we cherish that time!) and the planning of the new curriculum. Which seems quite a daunting prospect. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But then do we really have to change everything we do?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">To give a quick idea of what we are delivering at KS3 at the moment may show the process we are going through:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Year 7s are all learning German. We use Echo 1 as a vague guide but we do not let it shape our Scheme of Work (SoW). It is restricting as far as levels and challenge are concerned, but we find it helps to have listening and reading tasks already made for us, should we need them. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Year 8s and 9s are all learning French. We use Studio 2 and 3 for material and vocab, but have started to shape the SoWs to suit the cohort each year. We have adapted the content from the Studio courses, added vocabulary and structures that we feel more appropriate to our classes. But as with the year 7s, we find it useful to have listening and reading tasks readily available. Especially as we have had non-specialists teaching both subjects this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">By trialling and adapting SoWs this year, we have already created a much more appropriate course for our students. So we haven't started from scratch, and we certainly aren't having to update antiquated SoWs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So what do we need to consider when we create our new SoWs? </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">It is essential that each unit of work is appropriate for our students. Some figures that were thrown our way last week was that we have 6.8% School Action students, 2.8% Statemented students and 22 students (1 in 36) with ASD. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">We need to consider what the school's focus and priority are, with regards to the new curriculum. What is the school focusing on? Which skills in particular does the school want to develop in the students?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">What is the starting point of our new cohort as far as MFL is concerned? Which languages will they have learnt?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What has worked this year?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">What hasn't worked this year?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">What language skills do we want them to learn and when?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">What skills do we want the students showing and using by the end of each year?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What should an A*/A/B student at GCSE be able to do by the end of Year 7? Year 8? Year 9?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">How will we help support the skills needed to succeed in end-of-course examinations?</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So we, as a department, got together and spattered our ideas all over pieces of paper. We threw down as many ideas for topics as possible, and then what skills we wanted the students to be able to learn by the end of each year.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><u>Year 7</u></strong> - they will start off with an Identity and Self unit, mirroring what they do in PSHE during the first term. We will also run a Family Album unit (which has proved popular over the last 2 years) but with a World War One focus, to compliment the whole-school programme of commemoration. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><u>Year 8</u></strong> - a lot of the SoW from this year has been really successful. We will keep the Fashion Show module, as well as the Talent and Media units. The Paris Project is what the students have enjoyed most of all, and we intend to tie that in with a trip to France. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><u>Year 9</u></strong> - What didn't work was the Apprentice project. So we need to change that. But the Dream Date (Blind Date) module was very well received, as was the topic of holiday. But with fresh eyes and mind, we intend to change the outcome of this - students will be pretending to be holiday agents and putting together holiday packages to 'sell' to the rest of the class. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We are a team who believes in trial and error, and regular discussions over what is/isn't working. We would rather try something new than stay stuck in a rut of "we always do this". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Of course, one slight hindrance is that we are now advertising for a new member of the department, which will dictate how we deliver languages in Year 7. Do we just deliver French, or do we run a carousel and the students choose? What do you do? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">On the other side of the coin, a new member of the department will bring with them new and different ideas, which can only be good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have sent out a questionnaire to our primary schools to find out their current structure of MFL provision, which language they teach and when, so we have an idea of the cohorts over the next few years. Good old Google Docs! (Thank you, #ililc4!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">All I know is that the new curriculum doesn't mean change everything. It means change what needs changing, leave what works.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">And as all our schools are keeping NC Levels and waiting to see what everyone else does, I can only assume that NC Levels will be around for a while!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the start of this half term we had an Inset Day at school, and a large part of the day was dedicated to the development and preparation of the New Curriculum for September. The rubbish part is that I couldn't drive, so wasn't there. But I did put together ideas to start my department thinking.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I see it as a great opportunity to further develop the way students learn languages. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't think that any one unit should be taught the same way each year. Students change with each cohort, relevance changes. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I believe that all Schemes of Work should already be altered, depending on the length of the half terms and on the students each year. So creating a new curriculum needn't and shouldn't be such a shock.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Something that needs a huge improvement with our students is the fluency and independence in speaking the TL. That is something that the new SoWs will need to address, and I will continue to seek different ways of doing this. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some useful insights into the new curriculum are below. If you know of any other links, please can you leave them in the comment box, or tweet them for me.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.rachelhawkes.com/PandT/2014_Curriculum/2014Curr.php" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rachel Hawkes website</span></a><br />
<a href="http://community.tes.co.uk/tes_modern_foreign_languages/b/weblog/archive/2013/05/13/the-impact-of-the-new-national-curriculum-on-language-teaching.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rachel Hawkes in TES</span></a><br />
<a href="http://frenchteachernet.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/the-new-ks23-mfl-curriculum.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Frenchteacher blog</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am organising a get-together at my school in Bracknell for MFL teachers to chat about the new curriculum, to share ideas and to make more sense of it all. Moreover, to come together so that we all know we are going to be ready for September, and that we are doing right by our own students.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If you are interested, I will be publishing the date soon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This lesson was fab. I felt utterly redundant. A colleague walked by and said "You've set the auto-pilot and the plane is still in the air and flying", because I was doing absolutely nothing. The kids were very in control, very motivated, working brilliantly in pairs, and needed little intervention from me!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The focus of the lesson was to improve their accuracy and confidence with prepositions, especially with the dative case. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So, armed with mini-whiteboards, students <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMPkl8KwKsA" target="_blank">watched the clip</a> twice (muted so they concentrated on the visuals) and noted down everything that they saw - what was where, description of the rooms, making sure that they used prepositions. They did this in English, as there was an awful lot of information to take down. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">They then worked in pairs to create the narrative in German. Off they went. They were totally motivated, totally focused. So fab to watch. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">After 15 minutes I played the clip again, to let them see if they had missed anything out. It also gave them the chance to see if their sentences were long enough. So it helped them to consider editing and filling narrative. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">They were keen to stand at the board and point at things that they were describing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A huge benefit of this is that they were self-policing with the dative case, and helping each other out. They were also finding the vocab out for themselves, which has so much more value than me giving it to them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Following on from yesterday's blog I have had questions about running dictation. It is a task that has so many positive aspects, and I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't used it in their classrooms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It can be used for vocab introduction, reading skills, information-seeking purposes. It develops team work and is easy to differentiate for.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The task mentioned in <a href="http://elvisrunner.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/handing-control-to-students.html" target="_blank">yesterday's blog</a> was the topic of House and Home, and was a way of students being exposed to and discovering the new vocab. So stuck around the walls of the classroom were a number of different House-For-Sale adverts. Students were put into groups of 3 and were given question papers that they had to work together to answer (these sheets have to stay on the table). The students have 3 roles - Hunter, Scribe and Researcher. They rotate these roles each time someone returns back to the table.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>The Hunter</strong> goes to read the adverts around the room, with a question in mind, to find the answer. When they have, they go back to their group and tells the scribe what to write.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>The Researcher</strong> looks for key words linked to the questions to make the Hunter's role easier. This can be done using dictionaries, vocab sheets, resources.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>The Scribe</strong> will write down the answers and key words on the answer sheet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are many versions, and you can tailor it to suit your students.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Something else I use for new vocab and topics is Human Dominoes, which I showed at #ililc2 with great joy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It is quite simple - dominoes, but each domino is a sheet of A4. I originally produced enough dominoes for each student in the group, because they have to move around the room to find their place in the chain. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But this doesn't expose students to all the possible structures. So I now give each group of 4 students a whole pack of the dominoes, and they work together to create the chain. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Just when you don't need it... This week was Review Week at school. Which meant everyone was observed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The last possible slot for observation was on Friday lesson 4. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I was observed Friday lesson 4...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I don't tend to change anything that I do when it comes to observation lessons, I refuse to have "the Ofsted lesson" in the bag for when it is needed. I have noted on my blog quite a lot that I feel a far better teacher now than 2-3 years ago, because moving schools has made me completely reconsider how I teach. But I just needed to make sure that the activities were right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The feedback was the best I have had for any observation in my career, so I thought I would share the ideas I used, because it has taken me a while to work out what an Outstanding MFL lesson looks like! I will go through the 2 hours because the engagement of the students during hour 1 helped with their brilliance in hour 2.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">1st hour = Group Talk for description of Bracknell</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><u>HOUR ONE</u></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In the first hour, the starter was a card sort for positive and negative views - as P/N/P&N is a favourite of AQA in the listening and reading papers. This was on the students' desks when they came in. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Students then used a different bank of statements about Bracknell for a Group Talk task, the focus of which was to offer spontaneously as much detail as possible. In order to encourage this further, the students had a tally sheet to assess each other's responses. This not only meant that students were listening to each other, but the responses were better in quality. The competitiveness in the students also helped the length and quality of their answers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Students worked on this for 15minutes, after which we worked on a Twitter Snowball task, which I couldn't wait for! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The first step was to pick a card from the Group Talk task. These were statements like "Reading ist besser als Bracknell". Students wrote that at the top of their Twitter sheet, and used the first Tweet box in the feed to write a response. After 3 minutes, all students screwed their Tweets into a ball and we had a 20 second</span> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">fight. Which was hilarious. We only lost one out the window....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">After 20 seconds, the students had to retrieve a snowball, open it up and respond to the tweet on the sheet. After 3 minutes, the same thing. After the 4th fight, students then used the Group Talk tally sheet to mark the responses. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The final task of this hour, as the plenary, was to respond to my marking. The plenary of the previous lesson had been to write a Tweet about Bracknell. The "Think Pink Go Green " action I gave all students as part of the marking was to correct any mistakes and make the Tweet 200 characters. So they were able to use all aspects of the lesson to write a better Tweet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Engagement = HIGH!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><u>HOUR 2</u></strong> (first half observed)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This lesson was all about learning the vocab to describe the house. So we started with Foundation/Higher match up tasks with phrases from exam questions. Then the lesson came to life. For those of you who don't know, I am a fan of colours, especially when it comes to <a href="http://elvisrunner.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/buzz-word-bingo-differentiation.html" target="_blank">differentiation</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So the students were put into mixed ability groups, based on their Reading Mock Exam results. Each group had 1 Upper, 1 Middle and 1 Lower ability reader in. As I use this a lot, when I said "30 seconds to move into your Reading groups", the students were up and at it straight away. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I had stuck 3 House-For-Sale descriptions around the room for a dictation. I had also created a range of question styles, to cover the style in exams. The students knew exactly what to do, so I didn't need to explain, which meant all I had to say was "Running Dictation, ready steady go!" and off they went. It was great to watch, and the students were getting really competitive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We were just moving into the listening task, which I also differentiated with my colours of green, orange and purple, when the observing time was up. What I have also started doing with the y11s is for them to write down after each listening task a) how they found the task and b) what stopped them getting all the answers right. So when I mark their books, I can give them individual advice. They are least confident with listening tasks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We wrapped up the lesson with some conditional reinforcement, and then snuck out a minute before the bell so we could get to the front of the Chip Friday queue (rewards very important!). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The students have asked me to tweet them with my grade and feedback, they were that engaged in the whole process. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So I now know that staying at my school is the right decision. I have worked hard for two years to get that kind of feedback, and it has been hard. But totally worth it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Love is a very splendid thing. Love lift us up where we belong. Love.... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I must dig out Moulin Rouge this half term, is only for a singalong.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I was meant to be on interview on Feb 14th. But having done a lot of soul-searching, both on my own and by seeking the opinions of my devil's-advocate and much-respectedcolleagues, I feel at peace with my decision to withdraw. I have a lot of unfinished business to deal with in the department, and I feel so much more determined to make our department a brilliant one. My presentation at #ililc4 really helped. I had to reflect a lot when I was writing it, and then afterwards it left me thinking "Why am I walked away from a half-built project?".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So since making the decision on Wednesday, I have been skipping and dancing. Lightened hugely by the offloading of anxieties, worries and concerns at work. Buoyed and driven by the weekend and my wonderful #MFLTwitterati friends. And imagine my delight on Friday when I found this on my desk:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I planned a Valentine's lesson for year 11. They finished their last Controlled Assessment on Weds, so rather than start the final topic with them, I said that they would be writing some love poems on Friday. What made it even better, was they had been telling other teachers that they would be doing it in their other lessons. (More than I wished for when I wanted to "Get the buggers talking").</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So. How did we do write poetry in German? Well, we had a double lesson (2 hours), and this is what we did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Get them thinking about rhyming words - I put some on the board to start them off, and they then took over and came up with some of their own. They matched up pairs that I hadn't even thought of. They were also creative with the words. Which I love. I love students being creative with the tools they know. Love it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Students then had to pick out the pairs from the two columns that I gave them. It was interesting to see who made the connection between this task and love poems. Again, they then found their own combinations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Offer the students one structure and ask them to work in pairs/small groups to work out other structures that they can use. They came up with:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><em>Ich bin das Salz und du bist der Essig</em></strong></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><em>Wir gehen zusammen wie Salz und Essig</em></strong></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><em>Wir passen zusammen wie Salz und Essig</em></strong></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><em>Du bist der Essig zu meinem Salz</em></strong> (a good opportunity to revisit the Dative!)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Song Time. The group still struggles with listening tasks, so I prepared some tasks based on Tim Liebt Tina, by Anna Depenbusch. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">1. Gapfill. (DM me if you want a copy!) The first time I played the song, it was just audio. The second time I also ran the video. The third time I advised them to watch the video, and where they had gaps unfilled, they should watch the singer's voice to help work out which word was being sung. The result = all gaps filled. The consequence = students' confidence with listening goes up a notch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">(<span style="background-color: blue; color: white;">Which got me thinking. When will exam boards issue listening exams on DVD rather than CD, because understanding language is much more than just audio. We rely on gesture, body language and setting to help support our understanding.) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">2. The next task was to draw a web of the relationship, to understand the content a little bit more. Some students added extra detail readily and voluntarily. It looks a little like this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The best thing about this task was how involved they were in the discussions about the relationships. It was great. My job in all of this was hot-desking around the room helping with the finer details. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Writing the poem and making it look beautiful!!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, while we shouldn't have favourites.....</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The poem below came from out of the blue, from a student who sometimes finds German a real challenge. It warrants an enormous BOOOOOOM!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, the lesson came with a slight amount of manic-ness. Mainly from the students... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">To which I replied (and of course the class went silent), "Thinking about semantics, I would probably say 'I am the knob....' I didn't think this through, did I?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The class seemed disappointed that SLT hadn't popped in at that point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">An overriding success, the students making me utterly proud. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">And to the choon for the day? I was playing this through the speakers in my room on Friday morning. Play it loud!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So. AfL. I really am launching the buzz words this month! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I wanted my Year 12s to read each other's essays, and offer feedback, but I wanted a different way to do it. Casting my mind back to <a href="http://elvisrunner.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/tmwave-top-cpd.html" target="_blank">#TMWave</a> in December, and thinking about the item in the <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/100-Ideas-Secondary-Teachers-Outstanding/dp/147290530X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1392323339&sr=8-1&keywords=100+teaching+ideas" target="_blank">100 Ideas</a> book, I decided to give Post-Its a go. (There is shortly going to be a shortage in the shops, following @valleseco's bit at Show and Tell at #ililc4!). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In short, I chose 4 different colours. The essay was about Mass Tourism. I had read through the essays, so chose 4 categories that I wanted them to focus on, which areas of the essay needed development.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Yellow = Advantages of Mass tourism - www/ebi</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Pink = Disadvantages of Mass Tourism - www/ebi</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Green = Intro and conclusion - www/ebi</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As a three-step assessing for improvement, it has worked really well. We then watched a short report about Mass Tourism, to give them more ideas for the content, and they are now redrafting again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Considering the group has missed out on a lot of quality teaching, they are doing brilliantly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Tutor time activity, to encourage positivity amongst KS4 students and to continue to support their socialisation. It also addresses the problems with NekNominiations that are sweeoping the world at the moment. Gladly, my tutees' responses mainly covered the "But they're idiots, Miss." response.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Students then spend 5-6 minutes writing a ThankYou note to a teacher, to start them off on their 3 Pay It Forward acts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Today we have KS4 tutors delivering notes to staff. These are some of the ones I received:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So thank YOU for all you do to inspire those around you. You truly are fantastic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Forever in the search of ways to engage students, and now on the start of my AS teaching adventures, I was very keen to attend James Gardner's subtitling session at #ililc4, because everyone had spoken so positively about it last year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">James used to work in the subtitling world, so was keen to harness the resource in his teaching. He believes that subtitles can be used for a number of reasons:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Videos can be made, and peers (or self) can watch the videos and translate or write captions for the performances</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Using videos and captions can allow teachers to give access of videos to students</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">They can be used to create funny stories or videos, to encourage and develop creativity and imagination in students</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It is a really good way for students to listen to Target Language and capture the essential bits of vocab and structures. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The website that James introduced us to was <a href="http://amara.org/en-gb/" target="_blank">Amara.org</a> which can access YouTube videos, but the finished subtitled file can't be carried back over to YouTube. They can, however, be accessed on Amara. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I am very sure that James will make his presentation available, but I most certainly will use this in the future. I chose a video on YouTube at random, which was a Harry Potter trailer in German, and went for it. It took me maybe 20-25 minutes? It was exceptionally straight forward, and by the end of it, I wanted to watch the film. And I am not a Potter fan!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Here is the link to my subtitled video, and I highly recommend it. <a href="http://amara.org/en/videos/xS5sLEE19jyG/info/harry-potter-and-the-goblet-of-fire-trailer-german-ela/" target="_blank">Harry Potter with Subtitles ELA</a></span><br />
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<br />elvisrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13592638992010357279noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553754595696098450.post-50029836009295920942014-02-09T10:26:00.002-08:002014-02-09T10:30:17.443-08:00In At The Deep End - #ililc4 presentation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was Clare who said "You should present at #ililc4", and I knew I wanted to, but I didn't know what about. So we chatted a little, and she said "Why don't you talk about what you have done in your current role?". The more I thought about it, the more I liked the idea.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;">I joined my current employ in April 2012, and at first, I broke a lot of the rules that can be seen (or at least could be seen in the 80s!) at the side of any swimming pool... There was plenty of bombing (when tried and tested lessons failed), plenty of times when I wanted to run, and there was plenty of pushing - of colleagues and students alike.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;">In the first term, I had quite a challenge, but was told by my line manager "Do what you need to do, and change it". I was more or less given free reign. It was scary at first, but I didn't have time to be overwhelmed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My first one, which ticked the Engagement and Project-Based SoW, was the Britain's Got Talent Project. The language skill that we were teaching the students was the Imperative. It was the week after the BGT final on tv. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So the way it works is (and the delegates attending the presentation took part in this exercise): </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;">1. Show the students the footage of Ashleigh and Pudsey, and they write down all the commands that Ashleigh would have been saying to Pudsey. It may help if students work in pairs, with one saying the command and the other writing. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;">2. They then assign commands in French (or whichever language you are teaching!) in the order that they have written the English in. How the students do this depends completely on their ability, how you differentiate it, whether or not you have taught the imperative before. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. You then play the clip again, and the students then shout the commands at the screen, as they have written them down, to pre-empt each manoeuvre that Pudsey makes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;">Dare I say that the students enjoyed a French lesson? That was the first breakthrough.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;">So we used the text book assessments as a standard control, because it meant not overburdening the work load. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;">I also introduced data spread sheets to the department, and a standard way of working out sub-levels, based on the four skills.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;">We also had tracking sheets and assessed (alternating formal and informal assessing) each half term. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;">Anyone wanting to see what the tracking sheets look like, please feel free to email me!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;">But I needed reliable, standardised testing for each year group, which would offer true and reflecting data. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;">Students' progress is also shared in the MFL corridor, with all students' names on the level ladders, and they are moved after assessments. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Calibri; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;"><strong><u>Breakthrough 2 = Grease</u></strong></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;">Performing Arts is massive at our school. I went on a walkabout in the summer term, and came across Year 9s working on dance routines to the Grease medley. They were loving it. We were working on the topic of Media at the time in MFL. So I knew we could link into this to increase engagement. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Calibri; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;">So I then had to find a way to justify showing Grease to the students. We did a film review, character analysis, film posters. I also wanted the students not to be afraid of the subtitles. So I switched the subtitles to German, and gave the students the bingo grids I had created, using the words from the subtitles from a 2 minute bite of the film. It was a great game, and again, students could work in pairs, with one student relaying the words from the screen, while the other crosses the words off.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;">What was most important was to lead a department that was in turmoil. It was about trusting colleagues when they worked on SoWs or resources. It was about challenging the behaviour and supporting colleagues on an hourly basis. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;">While I haven't found the magic wand, we have a large number of students coming to the MFL corridor smiling, asking "What are we doing today, Miss?", which for me is a massive step forward. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Arial;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-color-index: 1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">While this isn't the complete presentation, it has covered an awful lot of what was discussed/delivered. Feel free to ask questions or leave comments below and I will gladly get back to you. </span> </span></span><br />
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