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Liz Black

What advice would you give to new colleagues?

September 28, 2017February 9, 2021Oxford Languages Team

This week, we’re welcoming back Liz Black with her reflections on starting out as a teacher. What advice would you give to new colleagues? I’m sure like me you have found the last few blog posts by Yvonne Kennedy and David Shanks extremely helpful. We can learn so much from other language consultants and teachers, […]

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Keep some of the old but add new technology to it!

February 9, 2017February 13, 2017Oxford Languages Team

When I visited a local school recently I was talking to Martin Heeley who has been working on and developing some ideas I gave him during the course. As we have a focus on the blog about what to keep of the ‘old ways’ and what technology we can harness cheaply or even free to […]

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