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MYLO – A New Approach to Language Learning?

January 15th, 2010 admin No comments
Could open ended group MYLO projects help address the decline of language learning in the UK?  This could well be the way forward and help address the lack of motivation for languages I have witnessed firsthand.  Watch this space…

Teachers.tv

August 19th, 2009 admin No comments

Last year I came across an extremely valuable teaching resource website called Teachers.tv.  The UK-based site is regularly updated with content and is nicely laid out.  The site has 3 main areas focusing on videos, classroom resources and community respectively.  Resources are also broken down into in subject and age group Early Years, Primary and Secondary.

There is an active community on Teachers.tv and it is a great point of contact for teachers to share resources, ideas and tips.  There is a lot of good material on Modern Foreign Languages (MFL), especially in relation to ICT.  In time, and over the course of my PGCE, I hope to get to try some of these out in the classroom and report back on the Beyond the Pier.  Here is an example video titled Resource Review – ICT Special: Secondary MFL that typifies Read more…