LW2012: Summary
I imagine the best place to start with regards to this years informative Language World conference in Manchester, is with a general overview before going into the details of the individual sessions...
View ArticleLW2012 – Getting the most out of OFSTED
The session was actually called “Achievement and Challenge” One year on – Getting the most out of OFSTED and was lead by Elaine Taylor. Ironically this was the first session (that wasn’t a plenary of...
View ArticleLW2012: Motivating Themes for Controlled Assessments
This session, ran by Juliet Park @julietdpark was not what I was expecting as I presumed that it literally would have been a session dissecting and looking at successful titles that had been used...
View ArticleLW2012 – Future perfect: A panel debate on the challenge ahead for language...
The panel for the debate was chaired by Rosie Goldsmith (centre) and from the left Larry Lamb, David Kennedy, David Smith and Lizzie Fane. I would love to be able to state that I diligently took...
View ArticleLW2012: Reflecting on ‘Conversation in the Classroom’ with Steven Fawkes
A short blog post just to relay and drill in some of the key points from Steven Fawkes’ talk about conversation in the classroom, one of the recurring themes of the conference. What I took away from...
View ArticleLW2012: Improving Memory With Wendy Adeniji
The session on improving memory with Wendy Adeniji was extremely useful and in fact made me think a little bit more about what I was doing in the classroom and gave me ideas on ways in which I could...
View ArticleLW2012: SEN in the Mainstream Classroom With John Connor
I chose this session at LW2012 ran by John Connor @bootleian as I teach quite a number of SEN classes given that in my school there is a larger than average number of students with SEN. This is my...
View ArticleLanguage Perfect World Championships 2012
I first came across Language Perfect at Language World 2012 when @thwartedmum was promoting them there and gave me some free places for the world championships for my students. I must admit, I never...
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