Wednesday 30 May 2007

ICT and Modern Languages: Using the Practical Support Pack


The Practical Support Pack is an online collection of high quality lesson content, lesson plans, multimedia resources and ICT support materials designed to help teachers develop their teaching practice using ICT. It gives teaching professionals the opportunity to try out new ideas and new ways of teaching familiar topics in their subject. It also shows the role that ICT can play in achieving learning and teaching objectives. Teachers can reflect back on the lesson and see how the ICT element has affected their teaching and the pupils' learning.

http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/supportpack/subject.aspx?t=2&s=11

· Each teaching topic has a ready-made lesson plan and teaching materials including multimedia resources: If you're new to teaching with ICT, using the resources should help develop your expertise and build your confidence in using ICT more effectively. Even if you are a more experienced ICT user, the materials can show you how to use ICT more strategically as a teaching tool.

· The modules can be used independently or with colleagues to share best practice. I would see that they could be used with Faculty with the outcomes of a specific activity being reviewed as a group.

· The modules are supported by the Primary and Secondary National Strategies, Becta, NCSL and TDA. There are also some direct references to the MFL Framework, National Curriculum and QCA schemes of work.

· The evaluation and reflection materials should help teachers assess how the learning and teaching objectives have been met, and how the lesson can be improved.

· The materials reinforce the potential of packages commonly used by schools, focusing on: presentation software to enhance pupils' creativity; email to aid communication with people in other languages and the Internet to improve and extend knowledge of language and culture in other countries.

· Materials include lesson plans, classroom resources and practical advice written by experts in teaching modern foreign languages using ICT, developed in association with CILT (the National Centre for Languages).

Click on the module to find out more:

Developing independent writing skills
Year 7
Enhancing learning strategies for memorising everyday vocabulary
Year 7
Nouns and adjectives
Year 7
Presenting likes and dislikes to the class
Year 7
Reading strategies
Year 7
Spoken and written forms of words
Year 7

Creating sentences from new vocabulary
Year 8
Improving listening skills
Year 8
Listening and speaking - practising extended dialogues
Year 8
Practising the perfect tense
Year 8
Vocabulary in context
Year 8
Writing to penpals
Year 8
Comparatives and the wider target language community
Year 9
Famous people
Year 9
Internet conferencing
Year 9
Practising written language on email discussion groups
Year 9
Researching and planning a trip
Year 9
Verb conjugation
Year 9

You can also watch video case studies of modern foreign languages teachers using ICT in the classroom. These should hopefully provide inspiration and ideas for you to enrich your own teaching.

Some Modern foreign languages information links are also available to access further material and sources of information about mfl teaching.
The Practical Support Pack is changing its name soon to become "Reach" which will include even more resources and include resources for Primary MFL. An email alert is available on this page to let you know when it will be live.

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