The January Event 2010

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www.westminster.ac.uk + www.linksintolanguages.ac.uk 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW (2 mins from Oxford Circus, 'Turn right at Top Shop!')

Annual General Meeting (free) 1.00 – 1.30

 

9.30	Registration & tea/coffee and biscuits – the committee will be there to welcome you!
9.55- 10.15	Plenary– Helen Myers, Chair of ALL London. Welcome & Introductions incl committee members, University / Links staff, and sponsors
10.20- 11.10	'Outstanding lessons and flashes of brilliance' Sara Sullivan -. Well known AST, SSAT Lead Practitioner and Head of the extremely successful languages' department of Woodlands School (Performing Arts College), Essex, Sara will share with us some of her ideas for raising achievement amongst learners, and - incidentally - impressing inspectors!!. OR Which course should I choose for my students?  Alternatives to GCSE and A level.  Gill Beckett With special responsibility for 14-19 CILT, Gill has an outstanding knowledge of courses available, and a great way of sharing it.  She will present an overview before taking individual questions about the new courses. (Repeat of CILT 14-19 session] OR 'What can the BBC offer you?' Johann Le Calvez an enthusiastic and engaging member of the BBC web team will give an overview of the BBC's treasures for language teachers.
11.15 -11.45	Comfort break / top-up of coffee / chance to ‘network’ / view info sent from corporate members including CILT. Thanks to 'The Ardmore Group' www.theardmoregroup.com and 'Sanako' www.sanako.co.uk, sponsors of this event!
11.50 -12.40	"Launch - Create - Celebrate" - a project-based approach to the New Secondary Curriculum Vincent Everett- HOD at Northgate High School, author and frequent contributor of good sense and fantastic teaching ideas to ALL conferences and electronic fora talks about how he has transformed his curriculum. We've been asking him for ages to present and are delighted he can at last make it! OR 'What can the BBC offer you?' Johann Le Calvez an enthusiastic and engaging member of the BBC web team will give an overview of the BBC's treasures for language teachers. OR Which course should I choose for my students?  Alternatives to GCSE and A level.  Gill Beckett With special responsibility for 14-19 CILT, Gill has an outstanding knowledge of courses available, and a great way of sharing it.  She will present an overview before taking individual questions about the new courses. (Repeat of CILT 14-19 session]
12.40	Round-up – Branch notices / ALL events / issue of INSET certificates
1.00 – 1.30	Job Application Clinic for PGCE Students. 'What are schools looking for?' OR Annual General Meeting - Chaired by Helen Myers 1. Election /confirmation of committee members; 2. Reports from the Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, Languages Committees (Community, French, German, IT, Italian, Spanish); 3. Response to issues raised by Management Board; 4. Issues to be raised with the Management Board (please give advance notice of issues you wish to raise in writing before the event if possible); 5. AOB to be decided!
1.45 - 2.30	EXTRA SESSION IF ANYONE INTERESTED! .... a repeat of the CILT 14-19 session Helen Myers gave on ‘The Challenges of Controlled assessment’ Helen will consider the published guidance from QCDA and then from each of the individual exam boards as well as further indications from training sessions and other sources in order to highlight some of the current issues and potential ambiguities and suggest some key points to consider for (a)   curriculum management implications (b)   teaching and learning issues (c)   new technology required (e.g. mp3)
& next?	Oxford Street. Sales. Need we say more?!!