Modern Language Musings

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

Speaking can often be the hardest skill to get pupils involved in and to assess on a regular basis. With many of our teenagers being sh...

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...

Reflection is deemed to be one of the most important things a teacher should be doing on a regular basis. On the eve of my fifth observ...

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...