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“Evaluation, isn’t that just adding a conclusion?”

February 22, 2018February 22, 2018Oxford Geography Team

As we enter the final stages of covering the A Level Geography content, I seem to be giving the same feedback to our cohort with each completed essay they hand in. Thus, some creativity in approach is required and I’ve started to experiment with different methods of structuring and scaffolding A Level essay writing. In […]

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6 essential props for the MFL classroom

November 16, 2017November 15, 2017Oxford Languages Team 1 Comment

This month, we’re welcoming David Shanks back with his 4th blog post… In a recent conversation, a colleague pointed out that her journey in teaching had real parallels with her previous experience of the acting world. The similarities are indeed quite striking: the working in front of an “audience”, the improvisation, the regular re-runs, the tweaking […]

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The Alternative 6 Back-to-School MFL Ideas

September 14, 2017November 1, 2017Oxford Languages Team

This month, we’re welcoming David Shanks back with his 3rd blog post… And so, school is no longer “out for summer” and another lengthy wait to hear Alice Cooper’s classic on the radio begins. We are learning new student names, dusting off the teaching cobwebs and are most proud of our shiny new stationery and […]

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‘Learning mats’ for the approaches

November 16, 2015May 26, 2017Mike Griffin 1 Comment

The concept of ‘learning mats’ appears to be popular at the moment – I see lots of examples of these at various training/INSET sessions. If you are unfamiliar with ‘learning mats’, they are essentially laminated posters that sit on students’ desks that provide them with prompts to help them with their work (call them ‘learning […]

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