1. MFL Development Day
3rd July 2018

2. Course Objectives To share ideas to improve practice in MFL classrooms
To provide some time to discuss and put these ideas into practice
To offer opportunities to network with MFL colleagues
Simple, what people want, ideas from presenters and yourselves (TeachMeet), we are all in the same boat, sleepness nights, huge curriculum changes

3. Plan for the day 9. 00-9. 30. Arrival and refreshments 9. 30-9. 35
Plan for the day Arrival and refreshments Welcome Planning and Assessment in KS Planning time Workshop Planning time Lunch Workshop Planning Time MFL TeachMeet
A more packed agenda than previous years, more ideas for your money! – let us know on feedback forms if you liked it / felt it was too busy, don’t want ideas to get lost

4. Workshops
A: Translation: Kirsten Ross B: Developing Speaking for GCSE: Laura Blasco C: Listening: Kerrie Moorhouse D: Preparing MFL Students for GCSE Writing: Dan Straw & Hollie Milnes E: Creativity and Engagement: Gemma Evans
Thank you, offer ideas from our classrooms, themes should be common to us all, not all new,, you will have better ones – share them!

5. RTSA Website http://www.redhilltsa.org.uk/course/view.php?id=34
Please access resources in planning time, wi-fi code

6. Adapting SOWs and Assessments in KS3
Objectives
To share how KS3 departmental SOWs and assessments have been adapted for the new GCSE
To promote discussion and sharing of ideas and resources to lead to the adaption of SOWs and assessments in KS3

7. How has GCSE changed? Increased challenge
Unfamiliar questions / content
Literary texts
Target language questions
Translation
Increased focus on grammar and structures
Moved away from pre-learned speaking and writing responses

8. Adapting KS3 Assessments
Guidelines
2 skills approximately per half term
Skills spread evenly across the year
Linked to KS3 assessment criteria
Opportunity to build and assess skills needed for GCSE
Some unfamiliar element to each assessment
Students expected to revise for the end of unit tests (revision lists / vocab lists etc.)

9. KS3 Assessment Criteria - Banding

10. Listening Assessments
Text book passages / record your own with a native speaker / foundation listening exam passages
Adapt tasks to mirror Foundation GCSE task types e.g. …
Matching pics to what they hear
English multi-choice
English summary tables
Finish the English sentences
English questions
Simple TL picture matching activities
TL – positive, negative or both  
Provide extra vocabulary support if necessary (build into vocab sheets for learning at home)
Build in practise listening into Schemes of Work (teach listening skills explicitly)

11. Year 8 Listening Assessments
Some unfamiliar vocab
Simple opinions and reasons

12. Year 8 Listening Assessments
More challenging
Answers in a different order
Wider variety of vocab

13. Year 8 Listening Assessments
Lots of irrelevant information
Students have to read questions carefully
Includes tenses
Wider variety of vocab

14. Year 7 Spanish Listening
Multi-choice with more than 1 answer
Could be easily adapted to the target language

15. Year 8 German
Carefully selected Foundation GCSE question (old spec)

16. Year 8 Spanish Listening
Simple target language questions

17. Reading Assessments
Text book passages / abridged literary texts / foundation reading exam texts
Adapt tasks to mirror Foundation GCSE task types e.g. …
Matching pics to what they read
Matching names to texts
English multi-choice
English summary tables
English lists of things which appear in the text
Finish the English sentences
English questions
English – find the 4 true / false statements
TL True, false not in text
Simple TL questions
TL to English translation
Provide extra vocabulary support if necessary (build into vocab sheets for learning at home)
Build in practise listening into Schemes of Work (teach reading skills explicitly)

18. KS3 Reading Assessments – Before …

19. KS3 Reading Assessments – Authentic Text

20. KS3 Reading Assessments – Authentic Text

21. KS3 Reading – TL questions

22. KS3 Reading – Grammar Gap Fill

23. KS3 Reading – Summary question

24. KS3 Reading – GCSE Style Assessment

25. KS3 Reading – GCSE Style Assessment

26. KS3 Reading – GCSE Style Assessment

27. KS3 Reading – GCSE Style Assessment

28. KS3 Reading – GCSE Style Assessment

29. KS3 Reading – GCSE Style Assessment

30. KS3 Speaking Guidelines
Simple role-plays
Simple picture cards (with simple surprise questions)
Lists of questions for the current topic
Use speaking mats / support sheets to practise and learn key structures
Expect students to learn key words and structures at home
Build in practise speaking role-plays / picture cards into Schemes of Work

31. KS3 Speaking Assessment – Role-Plays

32. KS3 Speaking Assessment – Peer Assessment

33. KS3 Speaking Assessment – Picture Cards

34. KS3 Speaking Assessment – Picture Cards

35. KS3 Speaking Assessment – Picture Cards Y7 Spanish

36. KS3 Speaking Assessment – Conversation

37. KS3 Writing Assessment Ideas
Writing sentences for pictures
90 word writing tasks (4 bullet points)
Sentence level vocab and structures tests (translation)
English to TL translation
Use mats / support sheets to practise and learn key structures
Allow students to use mats in class for non-assessed writing tasks
Expect students to learn key words and structures at home for assessments

38. KS3 Writing Assessment 90 words

39. KS4 Writing Assessment Revision List

40. KS3 Writing Assessment 90 words

41. KS3 Writing Assessment Translation

42. KS3 Writing Assessment Translation

43. Adapting SOWs Add in new assessments
Add mini-units of work / practise resources to cover skills needed for assessments
Identify core language / structures for each unit
Get core language onto grammar mats / quizlet lists
Get students learning core language at home
Test core language regularly

44. Adapting SOWs and Assessments in KS3
Assessments - Discussion
What SOWs & assessments do you currently have in KS3?
How could they be improved to meet the needs of the new GCSE examinations?