Higher Still
Working with the Higher Still Development Unit and schools, I was closely involved with the development of Access level qualifications in Modern Languages and have worked with Learning and Teaching Scotland to produce or revise support for teachers and learners working at those levels. Links to those materials and to others that I developed for related training sessions can be found on the Qualifications page on this site. Working Together
For about 6 years or so I ran in-school projects entitled Working Together for Inclusion in Modern Languages which teamed up modern language teachers and support for learning teachers who worked together on curriculum development intitiatives related to school and MFL department priorities. The success of these led to a new project to produce free-standing materials which could be made available to a larger number of schools. Archive material from these projects can be found on this site. Maximising Potential
This new version of the materials, piloted in a few Scottish schools in session 2006-7, became an online project now known as Maximising Potential. It provides materials to support a term- or year-long programme of development and can count towards continuing professional development. Maximising potential now forms part of Learning and Teaching Scotland's MFLE website. Further information about the programme can be found on the CPD page on this site. Supplementary support for this programme is still provided on private pages on this site. Mini Modules CDs - Multisensory resources to support storytelling in the early stages
I am currently working on materials for teachers in primary and special schools who may be teaching languages to pupils and students in the early stages of language learning and who may not themselves be confident linguists. The CDs provide support for the teacher as well as resources for use with classes. In keeping with other aspects of my work, these materials exemplify, as far as I am able, the multisensory approaches to language learning that I advocate on this site. Two titles have reached production: a Christmas story, The Week before Christmas (in French, German and Spanish), and one called Please can I have a pet? (French and German) which I hope will be the first of a series to support increased use of the target language for routine interactions between pupils and between pupils and their teachers. These were piloted via this site but are now available commercially on CD on their own website: http://www.minimodules.co.uk. Work on further titles and language versions (including English as a foreign or additional language) is on-going.
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