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Good Practice

Educational research has shown that sharing good practice is a particularly effective way of improving teaching and learnning. The purpose of this page is to share appropriate and relevant examples of good practice from across the LEA. If you would like to suggest or recommend examples of good practice, please contact the subject adviser.

Hertfordshire MFL teacher wins Guardian Secondary Teacher of the Year Award

Congratulations to Mike Ullmann, Head of the Languages College at Hockerill Anglo-European College in Bishop’s Stortford, who has won the prestigious Guardian award for teacher of the year in a secondary school.

Mike has been an outstanding influence on his school for the last 15 years, during which time he has transformed the approach and practice of teaching languages.

His unprecedented approach to teaching languages has made Hockerill Anglo European College a model for bilingual education throughout the UK. Pupils are taught history and geography in French and German to develop their language skills. Hockerill is now extending it to maths and science.

John Harris, director of CSF, said “Congratulations to Mike. Our teachers rarely find themselves in the spotlight like this - being recognised for the hard work and commitment they give to pupils, schools and local communities. It is a real achievement and well deserved.”

Mike will be presenting to secondary colleagues at Hertfordshire Development Centre on 25th April as part of the launch of a new MFL training programme for secondary MFL teachers.

Effective GCSE Teaching

Many thanks to Jon Meier, secondary AST at Verulam School St. Albans, for these resources used for NQT training at Hertfordshire Development Centre in Autumn 2005. You can find further ideas, tips and resources from Jon on his website:

• www.langweb.co.uk

• Adobe pdf, 92kb/27 pages, 24/11/2005, effective_gcse1.pdf
• Adobe pdf, 99kb/11 pages, 24/11/2005, effective_gcse2.pdf

Adding a sparkle to our lessons

Some ideas arising from the KS3 Framework follow-up course run by Jon Meier on Wednesday 5th May 2004 at Wheathampstead Development Centre

• Word97, 23kb/1 page, 29/05/04, KS3_framework_feedback.doc

MFL - ICT

A good recent example is the "Using ICT to teach MFL" workshop held at Goffs School in Cheshunt on 2nd October 2002.

This was attended by 15 colleagues from 7 secondary schools across the East Quadrant. Lizzie Heath led a impressive presentation on making use of the Interactive Whiteboard.

Curriculum Network Meetings

Wheathampstead Development Centre - 26 January 2004
The MFL Good Practice Network Meeting discussed extending Gifted & Talented pupils in modern languages.  The attached file contains the notes made of the meeting discussions.

• Word97, 42kb/6 pages, 26/1/04, thinking_skills.doc

West Quadrant - Meeting Notes
Beaumont School, St Albans - 21 November 2002
Download file: Word97, 24kb/2 pages, 21/11/02, westquad_rep_nov02.doc

North Quadrant - Meeting Notes
The Thomas Alleyne School - 28 November 2002
Download file: Word97, 24kb/2 pages, 21/11/02, northquand_rep_nov02.doc

East Quadrant Meeting
Goffs School, Cheshunt - 2 October 2002