In June and July 2010 CILT will be running 4 one-day national
conferences to support LAs, teacher trainers and HE providers in
developing language upskilling courses for primary teachers based
on the Language Upskilling Specification
published in October 2009.
The events will take place in:
- Bristol (for the South West)
- Birmingham (for the West Midlands, the East Midlands, and the
East)
- London (for London and the South East)
- Manchester (for the North West, North East and Yorkshire &
the Humber)
More information including venue details, timings and content of
the day will be available shortly after Easter. We would encourage
people to attend events in their region in order to establish
partnerships between key potential providers.
These conferences are training events designed to give those
attending the opportunity to look in detail at the Language
Upskilling Specification and to focus on the exemplification
materials in French, German and Spanish produced by the writing
team at CILT.
At each event attendees will be given a memory
stick – the training manual - with all
exemplification materials including:
- Powerpoint presentations to demonstrate teaching and learning
activities suitable for adults but adaptable for the primary
classroom
- "Lesson" planning templates to ensure grammatical coverage,
progression and differentiation
- Follow-up materials to work with after the event.
The memory stick will also contain training materials on
ensuring coherence between the KS2 Framework and the Language
Upskilling Specification and on teaching languages to adults. Some
of these will be used on the day and others are designed to be used
after the event by regional partnerships.
These events will be free of charge.
Invitations will be sent to LA Advisers, Initial Teacher
Training institutions, University Language Centres and other
colleagues in HE.
CILT is also offering, free of charge, one day follow-up support
per region. The follow up regional events will offer appropriate
support – to be negotiated with CILT - to individual regions
depending on what is agreed to be most beneficial locally
For more information regarding these events or should you have
any questions please email claudia.vacca@cilt.org.uk.