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Apply now for Comenius 2013 Funding
Applications are now open for the latest round of Comenius funding. For further information on School Partnerships, In-Service Training and Comenius Assistants, please visit the British Council website.
Centre Internationale d’études Pédagogiques (CIEP) Mobility programme
Would your school like to host a teacher from France ? Would you or colleagues in your school like the opportunity to spend time in a French school? CIEP’s mobility programme aims to:
- Promote the teaching of languages
- Strengthen links between educational systems
- Support exchange projects
- Support the sharing of good practice
See the CIEP website for further information.
Learn eTwinning in three easy steps
The British Council eTwinning team is offering free online training sessions this autumn to help you get the most from the eTwinning portal.
Delivered by experienced eTwinning users, these hour-long webinars include live on-screen presentations, a walk through of the eTwinning website and QandA sessions.
Learn about eTwinning in three easy steps:
You can join webinars directly from your home or school computer. All sessions take place from 4.30 pm - 5.30 pm, on various dates during the term. Find out more at the British Council British Council website.
ALL Membership for Trainee Teachers
ALL work hard to represent and support the language community and believe that teachers need to speak with one voice to influence languages education. They keep their members up-to-date with all that’s happening in the world of languages.
Trainee teachers can become ALL members through their low-cost Student Associate Membership.
Student Associate members receive:
- ALLnet, ALL's weekly email bulletin
- three issues of Languages Today magazine per year
- online access to five language specific journals
- discounts on ALL regional and national events, including Language World
- special offers and opportunities
Ground-breaking languages project to expand with new funding
A ground-breaking project to bring language learning to disadvantaged communities is to be introduced to new audiences thanks to a €168k grant awarded to Nottingham Trent University.
The money, from the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning programme, will be used to continue the work of the VIVACE project, which introduced activities such as language classes, languages study circles, singing, dancing, drama and cookery to a range of settings, from prisons to church halls and community centres.
For further information, please see NTU news.
International School Award
The British Council International School Award has been established for more than ten years in the UK and is now gradually being introduced in schools all around the world.
The ISA offers:
- a framework for international partnerships and global learning
- recognition for teachers and their schools
- opportunities to raise the school's profile through local and national media.
The ISA accreditation framework helps you to record and evaluate international work and embed it into the curriculum and whole school ethos.
The British council currently have 69 schools participating in the International School Award across Nottingham City and would like to invite further schools across the City to participate. It is free of charge and is a very accessible and supportive framework around which to build and develop your own school's international journey.
To apply please visit the British Council website.
The Challenge Fund
The Challenge Fund provides support for joint thematic activities between UK and German partners and is designed to encourage young people to:
- pick a subject or theme of their choice and explore it in an international context
- take a fresh look at cross - or extra-curricular project work, with or without a language element
- take an active role in a practical, 'hands-on' team venture
- work together towards a concrete outcome, product or event of their choice.
Find out more on the UK-German Connection website.
Immersion courses
Annual courses in France and Spain for Primary School and Secondary School Teachers, focusing on language and methodology
Aims for Primary Immersion courses:
- to improve methodological expertise in the teaching of French to young learners
- to provide participants with materials and ideas suitable for the teaching of French at primary level
- to develop cultural awareness and understanding of contemporary France
- to improve participants' competence and performance in French
- to use Internet and other ICT resources in your class.
Aims for Secondary Immersion courses:
- to develop cultural awareness and understanding of contemporary France
- to debate current issues and (re)discover contemporary French personalities
- to use Internet and other Information and Communications Technology (ICT) resources in the classroom
- to use contemporary novels, songs, short stories and films in the classroom
- to enhance participants' discursive skills, update their vocabulary and gain new ideas and materials for use in the classroom
- to enhance methodological expertise in the teaching of French to teenagers.
Find out more on the LFEE website.
Special Interest Group For World Languages
The Association for Language Learning has a Special Interest Group For World Languages and a discussion list which it has just opened for public access. The list enables teachers and people with an interest in languages to have somewhere to go, as well as to the larger forum of Linguanet.
