Effective networking for transition feb11

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Effective Networking for Transition: Meet, Create and Share

Isabelle Jones, The Radclyffe School, Oldham

icpjones@yahoo.co.uk http://isabellejones.blogspot.com

• Get practical ideas to deepen your local networks

• Develop practical strategies to ease KS2/KS3 transition

• Find out more about classroom activities inspired by the renewed KS3 MFL framework

Where are you?

• Consider the demographics/ geography of your Local Authority

• Contact names?• Working together?• Opportunities for quality time?/ funding• Mutual understanding? • Myths and reality

Making Contact

• Face-to-Face: meeting schedule• Bulletin by post or email• Email distribution list• Phone • How often

Aims of Oldham SLN Meetings

• Develop mutual understanding• Bring and Brag Model• Topic-based: e.g. Cultural Understanding• Share ideas for activities/ resources• Using “Human” resources like FLAs• Mini-projects • Meetings as only one way to report back

Get connected...

Online Groups

NING groups:Open or closed groups created on Ning, a fee-paying platform. Ning provides a lot of ways for members to connect with each other as well as the possibility to set up individual profiles and to upload files and multimedia resources.

•Primary mfl http://primarymfl.ning.com/ •Hors les murs http://horslesmurs.ning.com/

Online GroupsGrou.ps:Free alternative to NINGOldham SLN http://grou.ps/oldhamlanguages/

Yahoo GroupsMFL Resources yahoo group http://

groups.yahoo.com/group/mflresources/

Online Groups

Social Bookmarking: DiigoDiigo: Social bookmarking http://www.diigo.com •Enables you to save your favourites on the Diigo site and makes the links available from any computer (or smartphone)•Diigo toolbar•The links are called bookmarks. They can be automatically organised by keywords or “tags”. •The links can be public or private as well as shared with groups and specific individuals.http://groups.diigo.com/group/o_ldham-languages-sln

Social Bookmarking: Diigo

Micro-Blogging: Twitter

• Short messages (140 characters)• Great to exchange ideas and resources• Ask questions/ give support• Can be used effectively on a smartphone• Supports other networking and broadens it• Very dynamic MFL community • Important to fill in bio and mention MFLhttp://twitter.com/icpjones

Micro-Blogging: Twitter

KS2/KS3 transition:Practical strategies developed within Oldham SLN

• Secondary school meetings (2 full days and 3 twilights) with PMFL consultant

• Online group open to Primary and Secondary teachers

• Diigo bookmarking group• Lobby Headteachers for more outreach

work for secondaries• Sharing of FLAs/ Comenius assistants

KS2/KS3 transition:Practical strategies developed within Oldham SLN

• Questionnaires for primary schools and students when they come to us

• Shifting emphasis on developing language skills and cultural understanding in secondary SoWs

• Joint twilight session with practical examples of KS3 framework activities

• Using skills-based SoWs and resources like those developed by ilanguages

http://www.ilanguages.co.uk/

Sharing Ideas from the Renewed KS3 MFL Framework

• See where the overlaps are with KS2• Understanding the introduction and

consolidation phases• Developing pupils’ understanding of key

concepts

KS2 Framework

KS3 revisedFramework

Thanks to K Scappaticci

Sharing Ideas from the Renewed KS3 MFL Framework

Exemplification is available-downloadable pdf

Not language-specific...

http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/node/189433?uc=force_uj

Renewed KS3 Framework for Languages: Key strategies for Listening and Speaking

• *Teaching sound-written patterns (phonics)• *Systematically practising language-enhancing

structures • *Providing opportunities for planned & unplanned talk• *Focusing on key structures and verbs in different

tenses• *Catering for a wide range of preferred learning styles• *Using technology to motivate & record interactions

or • Individual speaking work

Renewed KS3 Framework for Languages:

• Rachel Hawkes, AST Comberton Village College (Cambridgeshire)

• http://rachelhawkes.typepad.com/linguacom • Curriculum NOW!, published by ALL

• Phonics examples in Spanish and French

1 2 3 4

5 6 7 8

9 10 11 12

13 14 15 16

araña elefante idea

olvidar

universo cerdo ciclista casa

coche cucaracha gimnasia hamburguesa

España zumo guitarra llave

le poisson le vin le jeu-vidéo

le midi

les dents le pont

la poule la lune

les ciseaux

oi in eu

au en on

i ou u

Le Rap: Activity

J’ai un chat, Hannibal.

Tu as un animal?

Elle a un chien.

Nous avons un lapin.

Vous avez des lions?

Elles ont deux serpents longs

Et des poissons.

Use Puppets for TALK

Provide simple structures: Pick and MixImprove outcome: NUDEPIGS

Toy Telephones

Motivate and Record Talk

http://www.easi-speak.org.uk/ http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

http://www.voki.com Ppt recording function

Renewed KS3 Framework for Languages:Key Strategies for Reading and Writing

Understanding & Responding to the Written word

20 s presentationin English about whatthe main articles in the magazine are about.

*in pairs*dictionary/ no dictionary*open-ended/ check listprovided

1.Who is magazine for?2.What is likely to be discussed in that kind of magazines?3. What key words can you see?

http://www.bayard-jeunesse.com/international/liste.jsp?langue=toutes

Reading/ Writing Stories & Story-Tellinghttp://mfl-storybirds.wikispaces.com/French+Storybirdshttp://www.screenpresso.com/

Adapting and Building Text

Rouge comme ... une pommeBleu comme... le cielJaune comme ... le soleilVert comme... les arbres

Now change the words for nouns describing how you feelwhen you look at these colours

Renewed KS3 Framework for Languages:Intercultural Understanding

Identifying features

Renewed KS3 Framework for Languages:Intercultural Understanding

Finding Resources

http://www.flickr.com/

http://www.flickr.com/groups/imagestoteachlanguages/

http://www.youtube.com /http://www.kickyoutube.com

http://www.google.fr http://www.google.es

KS2/ KS3 Framework

Take their Language

Skills OUT of the classroom

Bring the Language &

CultureINTO the classroom

FLAs, In-house visits,TV, Radio through the InternetMusic, food, fashion, design. New TechnologiesCelebrationsTraditions and HistoryCurrent Affairs

E-Mails, Letters, Video-conferencing, closed NING (online groups),Exchanges, Trips abroad,Visits, KS2/KS3 Links...