Modern Language Musings

With 'A'-Level, GCSE and KS3 curriculum changes looming, MFL teachers are currently facing all the challenges involved with the ...

This academic year has seen me start teaching AS level French. This was initially a daunting prospect due to only having taught a few ...

DIRT (Dedicated Improvement and Reflection Time) has become a huge feature in my lessons over the past year. I'm sure many of you ha...

Listening is often deemed to be one of the hardest skills for learners and can be a difficult skill to teach and develop. Once you have...

Vocabulary building can be one of the most arduous tasks for pupils. Pupils can feel bombarded at the start of a topic when they are le...

Languages aren't an easy subject to study and sometimes it can be difficult to make them accessible for a whole range of different ...

I won't lie, plenaries aren't my strong point. I'm frequently caught at the end of the lesson with 3 minutes until the bell...

How you start your lesson can often have the biggest impact on pupils engagement and behaviour. Pupils have come from another room, ano...

How often do we just give pupils another text to work through, answer questions on and then find the French/Spanish/German? After doing...

Objectives are something that are instilled into the UK classroom with the firm belief that if pupils know what they are aiming for, it...

Getting your own classroom and being able to decorate it was one of the things I was most excited about when I landed my job. The thing...

With Easter assessments looming, I have been providing a lot of model texts for my pupils to work with. While these act as an aspiration...

Struggling with a lack of engagement or motivation can be one of the hardest challenges teachers face on a daily basis. In this post, I...

On my second placement one French classroom was covered in useful vocabulary. I sat there taking note of every piece of coloured paper ...

My shelf is filled with a variety of Post-It Notes for different occasions. From marking to AfL, the humble Post-It has found its way ...

"SIR! How do you say...?" or "MISS! I don't get it!" Cries that can be the very last thing you want to hear afte...

Marking. The time drain that no teacher enjoys. Reading very similar pieces over and over, writing comments and setting targets that are ...