Language Leaders Award

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Language Leaders Award
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What does it do for young people?

• reward their language learning
• give them a purpose and context for their
  language skills
• develop their generic communication and
  leadership skills
• give them a better understanding of themselves as
  learners
• give a better understanding of the role of the
  teacher
• enhance their self-esteem and confidence
• improve their evaluative and analytical skills
• increase their personal attainment in a foreign
  language

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What does it involve?

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

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Language Leaders Award

• Overview of the course

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Autumn Term Developing teaching skills
Spring Term Planning own lessons
Summer Term Teaching in Primary
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Preparing to teach Autumn Term developing
skills

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

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Planning 3 lessons Spring Term

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

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Teaching in primary schools Summer Term

• Go out to primary schools to deliver lessons
• Teacher to accompany and evalutate

Successful completion of your one hours
independent teaching Language Leaders Award
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We now offer our Language Leaders Award as an
Activities Award through ASDAN. When asked,
they agreed they would customise their Activities
Award certificates to say Language Leader and
the language.Of course it is also possible to
generate your own in house certificates but we
felt that registering students for the Activities
Award (4.50) was more official. They receive a
book to record their planning and describe their
experiences, and append their materials. I
collect all this in at the end of the scheme,
look through it (have obviously seen them
teaching their sessions too) and then I submit
names to ASDAN and the certificates are
generated. Contact at ASDANbarbarabension_at_asda
n.org.uk You would need to contact her and have
the conversation it is not a standard thing
they do!
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Language Leaders Award ASDAN Sports Leaders UK Barbara Benson Tel [phone] barbarabenson_at_asdan.org.uk Sports Leaders UK Email info_at_sportsleaders.org Website www.sportsleaders.org Tel [phone]
The first Language Leaders Award scheme was
produced by Sports Leaders UK and followed on
from their Sports Leaders Scheme. However, it
does cost 40 for the file and 12 per student.
The course as such is really the interaction
the teacher has with the students to prepare them
to teach it is like mentoring ITT students in
lots of ways and is organic and develops during
the sessions. The only reason to hang the
process on an official scheme of any kind is so
that the accreditation is in some way external to
your own school this is for me its only
purpose, so if I can get that from ASDAN with
4.50 then that is preferable to me! The pins on
the previous slide are by far the most beloved
part of the reward from the students perspective
and they are organised by us privately with the
company listed there on the slide.It is quite
possible that I will in future generate the
certificates in house and just have those and the
pins but for our 50 Language Leaders this year,
Ive gone for ASDAN again.