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CPD Workshops 2022/2023

This section contains the professional learning materials and supporting resources used during the 2022/2023 cluster CPD. The materials and resources will further support the professional learning of colleagues at school level, and of those teachers who are new or returning to the subject.

Booklet

The interactive reflective booklet is an optional tool designed to support teachers in organising their thoughts and learning across the three sessions and while working with their MFL department.

Reflective Booklet
InteractiveReflectiveBooklet
Welcome Session

The welcome session establishes the theme and learning intentions for the cluster day.

Welcome
SupportingStudentstoCommunicatewithIndependenceConfidenceandCreativity

This infographic outlines supports provided for junior cycle Modern Foreign Languages since 2016.

Supports to Date
SupportstoDate
Focus on Communication

This session explores how the communicative approach can be developed to support students of Modern Foreign Languages to communicate with increasing independence, confidence and creativity.

The session examines seven features of the communicative approach and explores classroom activities and tasks from the perspective of real life communication.

Focus on Communication
FocusonCommunication

This infographic explores seven features of the communicative approach to support students to communicate with increasing independence, confidence and creativity.

Communicative Approach
FocusonCommunicationInfographic

These Padlets explore classroom activities and tasks to examine how the communicative approach withe a focus on real life communication supports students to communicate with increasing independence, confidence and creativity in their chosen Modern Foreign Language.

Communicative Approach Padlet: French
PadletCommunicativeApproachFrench
Communicative Approach Padlet: German
PadletCommunicativeApproachGerman
Communicative Approach Padlet: Italian
PadletCommunicativeApproachItalian
Communicative Approach Padlet: Spanish
PadletCommunicativeApproachSpanish
Inclusion in the MFL Classroom

This session explores how to plan for inclusion in the Modern Foreign Languages classroom by developing learning experiences that scaffold for access and challenge for each student.

Inclusion in Modern Foreign Languages
AccessandChallenge

The four Padlets explore classroom planning in each of the four languages to support each student being able to access the learning while also feel challenged in their learning.

Access and Challenge Padlet: French
PadletAccessandChallengeFrench
Access and Challenge Padlet: German
PadletAccessandChallengeGerman
Access and Challenge Padlet: Italian
PadletAccessandChallengeItalian
Access and Challenge Padlet: Spanish
PadletAccessandChallengeSpanish

This interactive, digital resource explores teaching and learning strategies that support access and challenge in the Modern Foreign Languages classroom.

Access and Challenge in the Five Skills
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These three resources support the inclusion of students following Level 2 Learning Programmes (L2LPs) in MFL classrooms. The Padlet explores a learning experience designed to include students accessing level 2 and level 3 learning. The linking document suggests links between level 2 Priority Learning Units (PLUs) learning outcomes and level 3 MFL learning outcomes. The PLUs learning outcomes poster will support teachers of MFL to explore links between level 2 PLUs learning outcomes and level 3 MFL learning outcomes.

Padlet: Integrated L2 and L3 Learning Experience
PadletIntegratedL2andL3StudentExperience
Linking Document
LinkingL2LPstoMFLLearningOutcomes
PLUs Learning Outcomes Poster
L2LPsPLUsLearningOutcomesPoster
Developing Students as Independent Learners

This session explores tools and strategies to support the development of students as increasingly independent learners across their learning journey in junior cycle Modern Foreign Languages.

Developing Students as Independent Learners
DevelopingStudentsasIndependentLearners

The four Padlets support teachers to examine how success criteria may be used to support peer and self assessment.

Feedback Padlet: French
PadletFeedbackFrench
Feedback Padlet: German
PadletFeedbackGerman
Feedback Padlet: Italian
PadletFeedbackItalian
Feedback Padlet: Spanish
PadletFeedbackSpanish

These two resources explore how students might be supported in implementing feedback to progress their learning.

Feedback Loop: Student
StudentFeedbackLoop
Feedback Loop: Teacher
StudentFeedbackLoopTeacherLoop

This interactive digital tool supports teachers in developing student capacity to reflect on and consider what is currently happening in their learning to inform future progress.

Interactive Reflection Booklet
StudentRefelctionSheetInt

This infographic explores how the Student Language Portfolio can support student learning during their three year learning cycle in junior cycle Modern Foreign Languages.

Student Language Portfolio
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