Integrating PLTS into the Modern Languages Classroom Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons 09/03/2010 Integrating PLTS into the Modern Languages Classroom Isabelle Jones, Head of Languages, The Radclyffe School, Oldham @icpjones http://twitter.com/icpjones My Languages Blog http://isabellejones.blogspot.com PLTS in MFL Wiki http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons 09/03/2010 Strategies for embedding PLTS in your daily practice Audit your own practice Promoting PLTS in your classroom Widen your repertoire of Thinking Skills activities ICT tools to support the development of Thinking Skills resources Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons 09/03/2010 Are PLTS here to stay? Not a new concept: Personal Learning + Thinking Skills Independent learning skills Learners’ social interactions Making the link/ transfer knowledge NOT a government initiative-focus for good practice Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

National Strategies Online Modules Were at the start of the drive to promote Thinking Skills. http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/mfl Click on CPD => Module11: Thinking Skills (log-in needed)

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons 09/03/2010 Bloom’s Taxonomy Give opinions, assess/ criteria Express rules, summarise, create Identify patterns and rules Predict, infer Explain, describe, illustrate Information recall: identify, list Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons 09/03/2010 PRICE Taxonomy 5 types of Thinking Skills: Information-processing skills Reasoning skills Enquiry skills Creative Thinking skills Evaluation skills P R I C E Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons 09/03/2010 Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

PLTS in the Secondary National Curriculum Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons 09/03/2010 PLTS in the Secondary National Curriculum self manager independent enquirer creative thinker team worker reflective learner effective participator Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

PLTS in the Secondary National Curriculum Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons 09/03/2010 PLTS in the Secondary National Curriculum 6 groups of Personal Learning Thinking Skills: Self-Manager Independent Enquirer Creative Thinker Reflective Learner Effective Participator Team Worker Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Embedding PLTS the BLP Way Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons Embedding PLTS the BLP Way 09/03/2010 Building Learning Power, Guy Claxton “The 6 clusters of qualities are more than Skills that can be trained... The point is to cultivate these qualities into becoming dispositions, or habits of mind... Cultivation of the PLTS should run through the curriculum, life and ethos of the school, like lettering through a stick of rock”. Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Embedding PLTS the BLP Way The 4 Rs Resilience: absorption, managing distractions, noticing, perseverance Resourcefulness: questioning, making links, imagining, reasoning, capitalising Reflectiveness: planning, revising, distilling, meta-learning Reciprocity: interdependance, collaboration, empathy and listening

Examples of languages activities Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons 09/03/2010 Examples of languages activities Which PLTS area is it? Are there any overlaps? Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons Audit and barriers 09/03/2010 Which PLTS areas do I find are the easiest to integrate in my practice? Can you give examples of activities? Which PLTS areas do you think are the most difficult to integrate? Why? Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons Audit and barriers 09/03/2010 What is creativity? Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons Strategies for Embedding PLTS Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons 09/03/2010 Aiming to deliver a wide variety of tasks in a varied way: impact on resource design and nature of interactions in classroom Opportunities highlighted in SoWs & examples of activities shared Focus on developing students’ skills and independence Introducing Meta-language to talk about learning: mats, display Overlaps with AFL and SEAL Training of support staff like FLAs Focus on developing skills wholeschool approach http://isabellejones.blogspot.com/2009/10/flip-cramlington-model-for-developing.html http://isabellejones.blogspot.com/2009/10/flip-approach-for-languages-at.html Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons Promoting PLTS: Mats 09/03/2010 Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Using cross-curricular Thinking Skills tools Promoting PLTS: Using cross-curricular Thinking Skills tools

Using cross-curricular Thinking Skills tools Promoting PLTS: Using cross-curricular Thinking Skills tools

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons Promoting PLTS: Display 09/03/2010 Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons Strategies for Embedding PLTS: Overlaps 09/03/2010 Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons Strategies for Embedding PLTS: Overlaps 09/03/2010 Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons Strategies for Embedding PLTS: Overlaps 09/03/2010 C’ était comment? Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons Strategies for Embedding PLTS: Lesson Objectives 09/03/2010 Healthy Livingprep objectives.pptx Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Write/ be prepared to say in French 7 things you do to keep healthy

mercredi 24 novembre Garder la forme Objectifs: Look at the specific skills required to do well the Speaking Controlled Assessment (CA) Revise key phrases and how to identify and use “interesting” phrases to improve the range of the language used SEAL objectives: Motivation (red) I monitor and evaluate my own work I set challenges and targets for myself and celebrate when I achieve them

Mercredi 24 novembre Recognise your strengths Vers le succès (Steps to Success): Developing strategies to start off answers in different ways F/H Say & understand how time phrases, connectives, comparatives, reasons & opinions can improve your linguistic range H Practise speaking ensuring you do not pronounce silent letters F/H Vers le progrès (Path to Progress): Be able to develop your speaking answers using a range of structures H Recognise your strengths Be aware of how you are doing Learn from mistakes

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons 09/03/2010 Showing off your PLTS- example of a lesson with PLTS-integrated activities Wed20Oct-Les addictions.ppt Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

mercredi 20 octobre La dépendance How to discuss addictions and give your opinion about them Objectif: SEAL objectives: Empathy (green) I understand others’ point of view & pay attention to them I value other people’s beliefs and cultures

Mercredi 20 octobre Vers le succès (Steps to Success): Be able to say, understand and compare different types of addictions F How to say and understand reasons why young people are attracted to these addictions F/H How to understand and give opinions on different types of addictions F/H Vers le progrès (Path to Progress): Be able to develop opinions using a range of structures H

Le tabac Le cannabis Les médicaments Le travail L’héroïne La cocaïne Le shopping Le jeu L’alcool

Points forts et Points faibles L’alcool: C’est relaxant mais c’est cher Le jeu Le tabac Plus … que (more … than) Moins … que (less … than) Aussi … que (as… as) La drogue L’alcool: C’est plus relaxant que le jeu mais c’est aussi cher que le tabac

Diamond Nine activity2.notebook

Diamond nine cards.doc

Pourquoi les addictions? 1. Pour échapper à la ----------- 2. Pour se révolter contre ses -------------- 3. Pour faire comme les ------------- 4. Pour ------------------ 5. Pour ------------- comment c’est. 6. Pour se ----------------- : c’est déstressant. 7. Pour se donner ---------------- relaxer parents confiance copains réalité expérimenter

Pourquoi les addictions? 1. Pour échapper à la réalité. 2. Pour se révolter contre ses parents. 3. Pour faire comme les copains. 4. Pour experimenter. 5. Pour voir comment c’est. 6. Pour se relaxer: c’est déstressant. 7. Pour se donner confiance.

Pourquoi pas?  1. Parce que ça sent mauvais 2. Parce que c’est dégoûtant 3. Parce que ça donne le cancer 4. Parce que ça cause des crises cardiaques 5. Parce que c’est facile de devenir dépendant 6. Parce que c’est trop cher 7. Parce que c’est du gaspillage 8. Parce que c’est difficile d’arrêter 9. Parce que c’est illégal 10.Parce que c’est dangereux 11.Parce que c’est mauvais pour le foie 12.Parce que ça fait grossir/ ça coupe l’appétit 13.Parce ce que c’est mauvais pour la santé

L’alcool, le tabac ou les drogues?

Et toi, qu’est-ce que tu penses … de l’alcool du tabac de la drogue Minimum 10 words Use: Je pense que c’est… Parce que …

mercredi 20 octobre La dépendance How to discuss addictions and give your opinion about them Objectif: SEAL objectives: Empathy (green) I understand others’ point of view & pay attention to them I value other people’s beliefs and cultures

Mercredi 20 octobre What areas of PLTS have been used in the lesson? Vers le succès (Steps to Success): Be able to say, understand and compare different types of addictions F How to say and understand reasons why young people are attracted to these addictions F/H How to understand and give opinions on different types of addictions F/H Vers le progrès (Path to Progress): Be able to develop opinions using a range of structures H What areas of PLTS have been used in the lesson?

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons 09/03/2010 Showing off your PLTS- example of a lesson with PLTS-integrated activities DLP20Oct2010-Detailed Lesson Plan Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons 09/03/2010 Full document To be included On the plts wiki Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons Showing off your PLTS 09/03/2010 KS3 or KS4 lesson on healthy eating What would you do to “show off your PLTS”? Classroom set-up Activities Resources (including ICT if relevant) Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons How embedded are your Thinking Skills/ PLTS? 09/03/2010 *Schemes of Work: mapping out of Thinking Skills lesson opportunities sharing PLTS objectives *Evidence of: Collaborative team work [+Seating arrangement, Display] Students using “meta-language” Students as Independent learners Cross-curricular support/time dedicated to skills building across the curriculum Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Typical PLTS-focused MFL activities Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons 09/03/2010 Typical PLTS-focused MFL activities Thinking through Modern Foreign Languages Mei Lin and Cheryl Mackay, Chris Kington Publishing Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Self Manager Activities Sharing strategies to cope with the unknown (reading/ listening): language challenge [document/ recording in a different language/ designed for natives) E.g. L’ hôtel de ville Prepare ICT presentation Presentation about self/ a chosen topic Presentation about another culture Grammar point

Independent Enquirer Activities Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons Independent Enquirer Activities 09/03/2010 Links with mathematics data handling making predictions presenting and interpreting data (table/ bar chart/ pie chart/ pictogram Balance of diet Leisure/school activities Spending habits Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Independent Enquirer Activities Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons Independent Enquirer Activities 09/03/2010 Mysteries Problem solving activity based round a given central question that is open to more than one reasonable answer. The information or 'clues' needed to answer the question are presented on separate slips of paper that your students will analyse, sort, sequence and link. Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Independent Enquirer Activities Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons Independent Enquirer Activities 09/03/2010 Mysteries Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Independent Enquirers Intercultural understanding-identify features

Independent Enquirers Intercultural understanding-reflecting on identity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LXaSFgVxGs Find songs with repetitive structures And get students to be more Creative with the language... Je viens de la où...

Creative Thinkers Activities Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons 09/03/2010 Creative Thinkers Activities Create your own sandwich, smoothie, ice cream... Invent mnemonics for particular vocabulary/ grammar rule Poems: recipes, acrostics, calligrams, comparisons Raps & rhythms Song: “Ne me quitte pas” Je ferai/ je ferais... Song-Stromae “Alors on danse” [Lyrics world app] Transfer structure: Stromae_on_danse : Qui dit... Rebus http://www.rebus-o-matic.com/index.php Rebus Malin iphone Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Creative Thinker Activities Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons 09/03/2010 Creative Thinker Activities Stromae-Alors on danse... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pKrVB5f2W0 Structure suggested for students own poem/ song (complete) examples of student’s responses Qui dit amour dit … haine/ famille Qui dit parents dit… bagarres/ problèmes Qui dit enfants dit … futur/larmes Qui dit vacances dit … rire/ désastre Qui dit études dit … travail/ennui Oui dit travail dit … argent/ennui Qui dit copains dit ... amusement/bavarder Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Creative Thinkers Activities Create your own sandwich, fruit drink, ice cream... Invent mnemonics for particular vocabulary/ grammar rule Je  N’ aime pas

Creative Thinkers Activities Poems: calligrams (word mosaic) Image Chef: http://www.imagechef.com How would you use these symbols? What other symbols might you find useful?

Creative Thinkers Activities Raps & rhythms Le Rap j’ai un chat, Hannibal j’ai des poissons. elle a un chien. vous avez des lions? nous avons un lapin elles ont deux serpents longs tu as un animal?

Creative Thinkers Activities Songs/ Poems: Ne Me quitte pas (Jacques Brel) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfegOxTCuOQ

Creative Thinkers Activities Rebus : Rebus http://www.rebus-o-matic.com/index.php Je m’appelle Isabelle C’est lundi J’aime les chats blancs

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons Creative Thinking Skills 09/03/2010 My Film dice game (can be done in English or TL) Raconte le film comme si tu étais dans le role princial! Le role principal 1=une petite fille 2=un adolescent 3=une grand-mère 4=une tortue 5=une danseuse 6=un chanteur de rock B. L’ événement principal 1=un spectacle 2=des vacances horribles 3=un cambriolage 4=un voyage 5=un concert 6=une course B. Le lieu principal 1=l’ école 2=les Bahamas 3=un château hanté 4=un bateau de croisière 5=un stade 6=un musée Fruit machine http://classtools.net/ fruit_machine.htm Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons Creative Thinking Skills 09/03/2010 Making links: Learners are given a selection of familiar words and asked to make a concept map by adding connecting words between the words already on the list. The links can also be made from a series of pictures Making links to other subjects Using music, drama, ICT, history, geography, PSHE... Analogies Understanding what is unfamiliar comparing/contrasting it with something that is familiar Verbal tennis Can be used to revise vocabulary on a given topic or to tell a short story one word at a time. http://www.wordle.net http://www.tagxedo.com/ http://taggalaxy.de/ http://www.screenpresso.com/ http://wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter_free.htm Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Creative Thinking Skills Making links: Learners are given a selection of familiar words and asked to make a concept map by adding connecting words between the words already on the list. http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/1751079/Me_gusta

Reflective Learners Activities Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons Reflective Learners Activities 09/03/2010 Odd one out raison saison pantalon couleur Gender, phonic pattern, plural, verb, agreement, alphabetical, abstract, linked... Can be done with words or pictures Can teach Target Language for justifying oinions Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Odd One Out - Model Plays an individual Sport Only woman Professional Sportsmen Not brilliant at their chosen careers! British Celebrities Only blond person Married Couple Jackie Howis AST Bennett Memorial Diocesan School 65

¡Pilla al intruso! desayunar comer merendar cenamos descansar leche pan zumo té café queso jamón mermelada fruta golosinas despierta desayuna energía come cena agua tostadas cereales uvas frutas verduras hortalizas dulces Rachel Hawkes

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons 09/03/2010 Fact or opinion “On mange mieux en France qu’en Angleterre” Discute + range les phrases selon leurs catégories 2 stars and 1 wish Direct/ Post-it notes/ wallwisher http://www.wallwisher.com Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Reflective Learners Activities 2 stars and a wish (direct/ post-it notes/ wallwisher) http://www.wallwisher.com http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/wjn8yXcz14

Effective Participator Activities Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons Effective Participator Activities 09/03/2010 Teach part of the lesson: from initial vocabulary input to re-introducing the past tense for regular –er verbs Get involved in outreach activities: resources for Primary (mini books, recording stories, using video-conferencing), open evening Organising a languages club/ café Involvement in activities to prepare for a trip, exchange, option evening Displays, videos, LAFTA competition... Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Team Worker Activities Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons 09/03/2010 Team Worker Activities Running dictation/ collective memory Students work together to create or re-create a text or a visual image in the form of a map, picture or diagram. Each student look at stimulus for a short period of time (e.g. 10 seconds) before returning to reproduce the original. Mysteries Living graphs Wikis: Collaborative Writing Task: http://langwitch.wikispaces.com/l%27histoire+sans+fin Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Team Worker Activities Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons 09/03/2010 Team Worker Activities Living Graphs Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Team Worker Activities Collaborative Writing Task: Wikis http://langwitch.wikispaces.com/l%27histoire+sans+fin

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons Widening your repertoire: Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons 09/03/2010 SYNTHESIS Competition: Write excuses why you have not done your homework/why you are late. Brainstorm elements of a ghost story/fairy story, research necessary language and write your own story. Poubelle/Basura/Enquête – from a selection of evidence decide what might have happened to a missing person/ somebody from the past. Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons 09/03/2010 Information-Processing Skills Locate and collect relevant information: Highlight positive adjectives, food suitable for vegetarians, Clothes you could buy as a present for your mother etc... Sort, classify and sequence: By chronological order, gender, similar sounds, students classify new phrases/ vocabulary and others to guess what the classification is. Compare and contrast: e.g. Comparing example of verb endings/ adjectival Agreements to establish patterns. Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons 09/03/2010 Reasoning Skills Give reasons for opinions and actions Draw inferences and make deductions Make informed judgements and decisions Teacher’s questions must aim to give students opportunities to express reasons, deductions, judgements and decisions. Pourquoi c’est un passé composé? Il est pour ou contre l’uniforme? Pourquoi? Un livre vert, c’est bien. Comment dit-on “a green plant”? What would you say if you had the complete opposite view? Any more questions? Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons 09/03/2010 Enquiry Skills Ask relevant questions Students are shown text side-by-side with translation They have 2 minutes to highlight what they understand And think of question about something they don’t Understand. Pose and define problems Show examples of verbs following a specific rule mixed with exceptions-where are the exceptions? Why? Canté Bailé Comí Escuché Fui Compramos Plan what to do and how to use a range of resources Planning sheet, mindmaps Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Enquiry Skills Plan what to do and how to use a range of resources Planning sheet, mindmaps

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons 09/03/2010 Analogies Create pairs of related words: Père et Chaussures et Mère Pieds Make/guess the analogy: Manger + bois = Maison + douche = Table Salle de bains Use unusual image/ sound associations: Students’ own Equitación (galloping sound) Je suis (I eat sweet) Pink car (voiture is feminine) Blue car (coche is masculine) Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons 09/03/2010 Evaluation Skills Develop criteria for judging the value of what they read, hear and do 2 stars and 1 wish Peer assessment (peer assessed by...) Look a your AFL good practice e.g. Feely gauge Wikis http://langwitch.wikispaces.com/8qF1 http://langwitch.wikispaces.com/8qF1 (dicussion tab) Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Evaluation Skills Evaluate Information (Text/Picture) What is it/sort of text is it? Who is it aimed at? How do you know? What is inside?

Further ideas and examples Secondary Strategy Leading in Learning materials http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/node/96254?uc=force_uj Thinking Through MFL, Mei Lin & Cheryl Macky, Chris Kington Publishing Curriculum Now! Rachel Hawkes, ALL PLTS in MFL Wiki http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons 09/03/2010 SOLO Taxonomy Stands for Structures of Observed Learning Outcomes Developed by Biggs and Collis in 1982 Describes levels of increasing complexity in a student’s understanding of a subject With the highest level being the extended abstract level, when students can make connections not only within the given area but also beyond it. Students will also be able to generalise and transfer the principles and ideas to another area. Chris Harte, Head of Languages at Cramlington Learning Village has applied the taxonomy to language-learning Are we allowing our students to make these connections? Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons 09/03/2010 Strategies for embedding PLTS in your daily practice Audit your own practice Promoting PLTS in your classroom Widen your repertoire of Thinking Skills activities ICT tools to support the development of Thinking Skills resources Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com

Integrating PLTS into the Modern Languages Classroom Embedding Thinking Skills in your MFL Lessons 09/03/2010 Integrating PLTS into the Modern Languages Classroom Isabelle Jones, Head of Languages, The Radclyffe School, Oldham @icpjones http://twitter.com/icpjones My Languages Blog http://isabellejones.blogspot.com PLTS in MFL Wiki http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com Isabelle Jones, North West RSA, http://isabellejones.blogspot.com, Twitter: icpjones, Wiki: http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com