New from MFLE: Judit Munso from Lossiemouth High school writes about her experiences on a Critical Skills course she attended and how she applied the techniques in her classroom.
Read Critical Skills in the languages class

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 […]

‘Building the Curriculum 3: a framework for learning and teaching’ has now been published on the Curriculum for Excellence website. This paper outlines important messages for all those involved in planning the curriculum for children and young people and provides guidance on a new framework. It sets out considerations which are critical to the adoption […]

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

The Independent reports that a pioneering project that is helping thousands of primary pupils to learn a foreign language shows they are progressing at about twice the rate of children using traditional textbooks.A study of 1,000 pupils learning French  via a CD-Rom revealed significantly higher achievement during the course of a term. The results – […]

The Scottish Learning Festival takes place on 24 and 25 September at the SECC and Clyde Auditorium in Glasgow.
The main theme of this year’s event is Curriculum for Excellence with a focus on outcomes and experiential learning and innovation in the curriculum. Underpinning the main theme is Glow, the national education intranet being rolled out […]

The draft experiences and outcomes for the technologies have been released on the Curriculum for Excellence website today (Monday 14 April).
These documents have been designed to provide information for all staff in all education establishments on the context and scope of the draft outcomes; they also explain what schools and centres should do with the draft […]

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 […]

Those teaching languages to the 14-19 age group can now draw on a fantastic new resource launched by CILT, the National Centre for Languages. The new microsite, Reshaping Languages has been designed to respond closely to the recommendations in Lord Dearing’s 2007 Languages Review, as part of a move to promote innovative practice across a […]

We’re seeking the views of all modern languages teachers in a questionnaire about the Curriculum for Excellence draft experiences and outcomes for modern languages.
It would be appreciated if as many primary and secondary languages teachers could respond as it’s your opportunity to comment on:

whether you agree with the rationale for the changes proposed
what improvements are required to the current documentation
what support is […]