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Royal Station Hotel, Newcastle upon Tyne
Tuesday, 11th January 2011Brought to you by:
Links into Languages North East & Routes into Languages North East
Realising the Strategic Importance of Languages
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Professor Eric Cross
Dean of Cultural Studies, Newcastle University
Realising the Strategic Importance of Languages
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Baroness Jean Coussins
All Party Parliamentary Group for Languages, House of Lords
Realising the Strategic Importance of Languages
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Richard Hardie
Vice Chair, UBS Ltd
Realising the Strategic Importance of Languages
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Thumbs up, thumbs middle, thumbs down
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Learning Outcomes
By the end of the session we will have: explored ways of thinking differently about
language learning in schools shared examples of our own best practice
from curricular organisation to classroom craft started to develop strategies for our own
schools in realising the strategic importance of languages
gained a deeper understanding of the national 'languages landscape'
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Learning Outcomes
We will do this by: using de Bono’s Thinking Hats to partition
each aspect of our thinking on this matter sharing our feelings, worries and doubts as
well as the brilliant work we already do sorting our strategies into quick wins and
longer term changes starting to put down some actions to
implement back at school
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We are doing this because: The face of languages teaching and learning is
changing dramatically and we need to react positively and strategically!
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Mark on the feel-o-meter to show how you feel about the current state of languages given the key notes and your own experience
Use your red hat Use your red hat when you want when you want
to talk about to talk about emotionsemotions
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Activity – on your own (5 minutes) On your own, on yellow post-its, jot down the
positive features of the current state of language learning
On the pink post-its write down the negative features (you might want to jot these down on your own graphic organiser too.)
Use your black Use your black hat when you hat when you
want to be want to be cautious, talk cautious, talk about barriers about barriers and negativesand negatives
Use your yellow Use your yellow hat when you hat when you
want to be want to be positive – what positive – what great things are great things are
you already you already doing?doing?
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Activity – as a group (5 minutes) Are there any common themes? As a group,
discuss if you can group both positives and negatives together under common themes –
“Timetabling is a theme for us – some of us only get 1 hour a week whereas some of us have 10 minutes Spanish every tutorial session through the whiteboards!”Theme Positives Negatives
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Activity – in groups (5 minutes) Green hat thinking splurge – write as many
ideas as you can, no matter how “out there” about how best to realise the strategic importance of languages, one idea per green post-it
Use your green hat to Use your green hat to look at opportunities look at opportunities
and ideas. Remember and ideas. Remember this session is about this session is about sharing and gleaning sharing and gleaning ideas with and from ideas with and from
others!others!
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Activity – in groups (5 minutes) Create a diamond ranking using one copy of
your post-its At the top, put the idea which will have the
most impact down to the least impact
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Activity – in groups (5 minutes) Now mark on the post-its which ideas are
quick win and easy to implement as well as those that are longer term strategy with many implications (it is a good idea to jot these down on your own graphic organiser too.)
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Demonstrate new understanding – in school groups (20 mins)
Use your blue hat to Use your blue hat to look at planning needs look at planning needs
– choose your top – choose your top most impactful and most impactful and
easy(ish!) to easy(ish!) to implement as well as implement as well as more strategic ideasmore strategic ideas
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Review – question time!
Whilst you are working on your planning, note down any burning questions you may like to ask the panel in the question time session. Make sure they are noted down with your name and question and given to the facilitators.
Review this with your whole group at the end of the session.Your
nameYour question
To which panel member (if you have a preference)
Your facilitator
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Dr Liz Andersen Head of Modern Languages, Newcastle University & University
Council of Modern Languages
Baroness Jean Coussins Peer of the Realm & Chair of All Party Parliamentary Group for
Modern Languages
Richard Hardie Vice Chair UBS Ltd
Bernadette Holmes President Elect of the Association of Language Learning
Dr Michael Wardle Deputy Headteacher, Framwellgate & additional inspector for
Ofsted
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Many thanks to everyone for coming and/or logging on!
For all event documentation, copies of presentations and handouts, please visit the event pages www.linksintolanguages.ac.uk/events/2210
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