I am on the train for the third time this week. My beautiful wife and I had a fantastic weekend at the Teaching Awards last weekend. The only pity was that there were no languages National Winners ( I won a national award in 2004 - them were the days!) apart from that, it was great to meet some old friends and the new winners. Anyhow, less of my galavanting -the wife and I are on our way from Newcastle to London again today to attend the Languages Show 2009. I have the privilege to be presenting a seminar on Saturday describing how we have remodelled our languages curriculum at Cramlington Learning VIllage. In my last post, I embedded a video describing our FLIP lessons at school and it has caused some discussion. Isabelle Jones, after watching the video, grilled me on the ins and outs of our approach to the curriculum which goes much deeper than just FLIP lessons and you can read her resulting blog post here.
...I am now writing in pain as my wife has just (deliberately?) poured half a cup of (thankfully) luke warm National Express Train coffee all over my leg. She thinks it is hilarious, I on the other hand...
Anyway, below is my presentation for Saturday outlining, in a little more detail, our curriculum model. I am off to try and deal with my wet leg...
Hi Chris
Another great Prezi...Thanks for the mention too!
Isabelle
http://isabellejones.blogspot.com
Posted by: Isabelle Jones | October 29, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Chris
truly inspiring. I was in total agreement when you said buy dicitonaries instead of text books and the increased independence is tangibile in our classrooms after only 15 months! We at Royds have gone down the same road as you delivering what we call Compelling Learning Projects via active learning. I am most interested in your Flip lessons and would love to know more about them. Do you have them regularly? Do they require as much planning as appears at first? Pupils setting their own LOs etc is the next step for us I feel.
Posted by: Mrs Crossley | November 05, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Flip lessons happen once every 3 lessons. They do require a lot of planning, but the outcomes are worth it!
Posted by: Chris | November 05, 2009 at 11:10 PM
thank you. I am surprised by the frequency - I had imagined about once a half term when you are at the end of a learning sequence. I shared your film with the department and it certainly gave us something to think about. The team were very positive. Thank you fort sharing.
Posted by: Mrs Crossley | November 17, 2009 at 09:16 PM