Encouraging teachers to think about the way we're delivering content- do we have to stick with the old or can we add interest and cognitive challenge, focusing on structures rather than vocab!

1. Step away from the
textbook!
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@chrisfullerisms
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2. For the next 2 hours we are going to...
1) To think about what we want to
form the basis of our pupils’
learning
2) To reflect on ways to look again at
content
3) To discuss how to keep finding
new ideas

4. Why change
NOW?

5. Laying the
foundations

6. Anderson’s Taxonomy

7. www.rachelhawkes.typepad.com/linguacom
www.doonceandshare.wikispaces.com

8. Persisting
• Stick to it
• Remain Focussed
• Never give up
discuter
persister
organiser
Managing Impulsivity
• Take your time
• Think before you act
• Remain calm and thoughtful
penser
réflechir
examiner
considerer
Listening to others
• Consider someone else’s point of view
• Consider all the options
écouter
examiner
considerer
évaluer
Thinking about thinking
• What are you thinking
• What are you doing?
• What effect are you having on others?
considerer
discuter
évaluer
formuler
Qu’est ce que vous avez fait aujourd’hui?
Thanks to Helena Butterfield
How + when do we introduce past tense?
Why not from start for reflection?!

9. www.globalgateway.org.uk
International links

10. www.worldvision.org.uk
Sponsor a child?

11. What are pupils going to be
talking about?
School disco Upcoming trip
?!

12. vs
Creating an audience

13. Blogging

14. Comments from the world

18. Make like a DT teacher

19. www.glogster.com

20. www.voki.com

21. www.xtranormal.com

22. Thinking
differently

23. How often do we
make our pupils
THINK?

24. Flags

25. Flags
colours
neighbours
phonetics
Uruguay Chile
Bolivia
Argentina
Perú Cuba
design own flag?
work with other depts to
design own kingdoms?

26. animals
ballena cobaya vicuña
viscacha llama flamenco

27. animal wild domestic food?
flamenco
ballena
llama
vicuña
cobaya
viscacha

28. http://24timezones.com/map_es.htm
Time zones
At 7a.m. in Lima, what time is it in Madrid?
How could we look at daily routine in a
different way?
- describe daily routine in...
- what would people be doing at...? Why?
- chores?

29. Climate zones

30. Climate zones

32. www.flickrcc.bluemountains.net
Contact the photographers?
(idea from Alex Blagona)

33. Development

34. www.worldmapper.org
Total population
Huge opportunities for contrasts.
WHY are these patterns true?

35. www.worldmapper.org
Tourist destinations

36. http://especiales.lainformacion.com/espana/espana-en-50-
graficos/?grupo=1&grafico=4
What questions with there are / there were
Because there is...
WHY do migrants move to certain parts?

37. Mapwork
with thanks to Neil Jones

38. Mapwork
with thanks to Neil Jones

39. OS maps on bing.com

40. Hint - There are 11 different symbols to identify!
Identify all the symbols you can spot on this Ordnance
Survey map.
O.S. map symbols
What materials can we adapt from Geography dept?
e.g. great Boardworks resources

41. 6-figure grid references

42. Be nice to the Geography department
www.radicalgeography.co.uk
Could we persuade the Geography
department to use TL country as a
case study?

43. ¿Qué tiempo hace en
España en verano?
with thanks to Neil Jones

45. Government departments have huge advertising
budgets- can we use their materials?

46. www.pubstv.com

47. How stimulating is YOUR local area?
Benefits of the Olympics?
Who should host the
World Cup?
Transport links
Benefits to society
Tourism
Regeneration
Should there just be 1
Olympic venue, used
every 4 years?

48. Picasso

49. Miró
Google Earth: Prado Museum

50. www.scienceacross.org

51. Grammar

52. Learning on the move
podcasts (e.g. Edgehill grammar
series, Coffee Break French etc)

53. Assessment

54. There is no failure,
only feedback
But have we convinced pupils of this?
How do they view their feedback?

55. Highlighting heaven
• Focus on the positive
• Indications of where
objectives have been met
• Promotes pupil reflection
with thanks to Dom McGladdery www.domsmflpage.blogspot.com

56. Get ahead,
stay ahead

57. www.google.com/reader

58. A few blogs to start with...
Neil Jones
www.mfljones.wordpress.com
Rachel Hawkes
www.rachelhawkes.typepad.com/linguacom
Chris Harte
www.chrisharte.typepad.com
José Picardo
www.boxoftricks.net
Living Geography
www.livinggeography.blogspot.com
Follow sidebar links- there are so many great
blogs out there!

59. www.teachers.tv
make the most of it while we’ve still got it!

60. http://tweepml.org/MFL-Twitterers
Twitter and Tweetdeck

61. Step away from the
textbook!
www.chrisfuller.typepad.com
@chrisfullerisms
Chrisfullerinspain@hotmail.com