MFL+Flashmeeting+Special


 * Flashmeeting Wednesday 1st September 8.30-10.30pm GMT (click** **here** **to compare time zones)**
 * Sign up below:) Maximum number of participants - 25 (if this is exceeded please create a waiting list underneath)**
 * 1) Joe Dale, Independent ICT/MFL Consultant Integrating ICT into the MFL Classroom
 * 2) [|Clare Seccombe] Sunderland LA Primary Languages bod [|Changing Phase]
 * 3) Catriona Oates National CPD team Scotland
 * 4) John Connor Independent MFL Consultant []
 * 5) Helena Butterfield Head of MFL, St Michael's RC School The Langwitch Chronicles
 * 6) Alex Bellars [|bellaale] French & German teacher, Ballard School
 * 7) Fiona Joyce, French, German & Spanish teacher, Ian Ramsey CofE School & Langs College
 * 8) [|Marie-France Perkins], Head of MFL Oldfield School Bath [|Sans Problemes]
 * 9) [|Mike Elliott], French & German teacher, The Hemel Hempstead School
 * 10) Rosemary Hicks, Head of MFL, Northfield School and Sports College, MHA
 * 11) [|Aurelie Charles], Head of MFL, The Robert Napier School, Medway
 * 12) Saira Ghani, Head of French, Chiltern Edge School, nr Reading
 * 13) Chris Harte, Cramlington Learning Village
 * 14) [|Isabelle Jones], Head of Languages, The Radclyffe School, Oldham [|My Languages]
 * 15) Valerie McIntyre, Head of MFL Blue School WELLS, @froggyval
 * 16) Jo Pickering, AST, head of MFL, The George Eliot School, Nuneaton, pixiejojo on twitter!
 * 17) Jen Turner, French and German teacher, Stowmarket High School, Suffolk
 * 18) Simon Howells, MFL ICT Coordinator, Cheadle Hulme School, South Manchester, @simonhowells
 * 19) Lisa Stevens, PLL and International coordinator, Whitehouse Common Primary; Consultant Lisibo Ltd. aka @lisibo
 * 20) [|Samantha Lunn] - HoMFL Arnold Scool, Blackpool [|@spanishsam]
 * 21) Dominic McGladdery, MFL teacher, North East England.

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 * Agenda -** to discuss yesterday's Radio 4 You and Yours programme on the importance of language learning -

Collection of articles about the "state of languages" in the UK and further afield (most recent first) []

Why we should mind our languages []

Useful points for discussing / analysing exam data - [] Let's do some Myth Busting and send it to Radio 4! Why languages matter? (US Perspective) [] //"if I may make a rare criticism of the actions of a Labour government, can someone tell me why we made a foreign language optional? It happened after my time in Number 10, and it was a mistake. English may be the leading language in the world but that does not mean kids don’t benefit from learning the language of others. So does Britain." (Alastair Campbell 27th August 2010)// @http://www.alastaircampbell.org/blog/2010/08/27/state-schools-improving-as-private-schools-fall-shock-horror/ Here is the content of the email I sent to the You and Yours Programme today (03/09/10)

Dear You and Yours,

winkwhite I thought you would be interested in knowing that following your hour long programme on Tuesday about the state of language learning in the UK about 20 MFL professionals from around the country decided to take part in a video conference to discuss the content of the programme and to drill down into some of the issues raised. Here is a link to the meeting @http://flashmeeting.e2bn.net/fm/f7a826-10595 plus a link to another discussion on the TES MFL Forum on the same topic. @http://community.tes.co.uk/forums/t/433166.aspx?PageIndex=1 I hope you find it clarifies the feelings of many language teachers about the crisis we now find ourselves in and what we are trying to do about it to improve matters. Yours faithfully Joe Dale  สบู่วิงค์ไวท์ **Related blog posts ** The Myth Busters - Catriona Oates [] Ballard Lang Blog - Alex Bellars [] Chasing Phase - Clare Seccombe [] Birmingham Grid for Learning []

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