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David Shanks

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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Five Tips to Make the Most of Language Teaching Networks – Part 2

June 28, 2017June 27, 2017Oxford Languages Team

It’s with an element of retrospective frustration that I regard my early years of teaching.  Keen to learn the trade and to teach as well as possible, I kept my head down, taught 5-6 lessons a day, planned and marked almost exclusively alone and all within the same four walls.  I often passed up opportunities […]

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Let’s Revive MFL by Making the Most of Networks – Part 1

June 19, 2017June 19, 2017Oxford Languages Team

This week we’re delighted to welcome David Shanks, MFL consultant and lead practitioner at the Harris Federation, as our guest blogger – look out for part two next week… “It’s a great networking opportunity.”  “I’m off to network over dinner.”  “Sorry, I can’t tonight, I need to show face and network at an event.” When […]

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