Comenius School Partnerships and eTwinning are holding a seminar for Scottish primary teachers based around the themes of community language learning in the European Union.
For more details on cost and how to apply, visit the Comenius School Partnerships web site.
For more information contact Sophie Patterson on +44 (0) 131 524 5722 or email: uk-comeniusscotland@britishcouncil.org.
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Whether you want to learn German for everyday life, personal interest, your job or for university studies, it’s worth seeing what the Goethe-Institut has to offer by way of forthcoming German Lanaguage Courses. Find out more by exploring the Learning German section of the Goethe Institut website.

The outreach programme is run by Scottish Cilt’s Professional Services Team, and aims to ensure teachers are fully aware of developments in modern language teaching and to increase expertise in the classroom. The Outreach programme aims to bring high quality, focussed training in modern language teaching to all parts of the country.
Further details of the aims of the […]

The programme will concentrate on Curriculum for Excellence and will form part of the strategy for engagement and implementation. Including:

Transition – how will CfE assist in the development of programmes?
Links between first and second languages
HMIE

Find out more and download this year’s program from the Scottish CiLT website

Covering three major European languages (French, German and Italian), for the primary and secondary sector. Courses abroad give teachers the opportunity to brush up on their language skills while developing new teaching techniques and refreshing their knowledge of the country’s society and culture.
Teachers can apply for funding through the British Council to cover the cost of […]

British Council Scotland reports that teachers have the chance to add an international dimension to their school curriculum with a free introductory course being offered by DFID Global School Partnerships (DGSP).
The online course, Introduction to Global School Partnerships, provides an outline of the principles and practices of global dimension learning partnerships between schools in the […]

I’m at the national languages conference, Language World, and have just done a speed-round of Thinking Out Of The (X)box, a presentation showing how computer games can be used as a stimulus for great creative, descriptive, transactional or journalistic writing. I’m now listening to the wonderful Wendy Adeniji, who was a hit at this year’s […]

National Qualifications (NQ) have added the following resources to their resource database:
ESOL: Everyday Communication - Listening
ESOL: Everyday Communication - Writing
ESOL: Food in Scotland
ESOL: Holidays and School
ESOL: Language and Learning

The General Teaching Council Scotland (GTCS) provides an overview of its activities during March including:

International Professional Development Seminar - 6 March, University of Strathclyde
Models of Support in the Teacher Induction Scheme - Focus Groups
Scottish Regulatory Forum - Professional Practice Department - 26 March, Edinburgh
2nd Progress Meeting of Classroom Assistants Group - 27 March, Glasgow.

Find out […]

An influential group of experts is putting pressure on the Scottish Government to take urgent action to make Scotland more multilingual, the Herald reports.
Figures show that the number of school pupils taking modern language Highers has slumped by nearly 60% since the 1970s. The group has highlighted an ‘apartheid’ in foreign language study in Scottish […]