The National Consortium for Languages Education (NCLE) has launched its new website, which has a range of universal Continuing Professional Development resources and activities for language teachers, links to regional language hubs. NCLE is also running webinars to explore the future direction of language learning.
NCLE is a partnership between UCL’s Institute of Education, Goethe-Institut and British Council, which is leading the nationwide hubs programme funded by the Department for Education. Up to £14.9 million will be invested over the next three years to re-energise language learning in state-maintained primary and secondary schools in England.
- Click here to access the NCLE website
- Click here for Universal CPD resources Current resources include: Principled practice; Languages leadership; Classroom Ethos; Planning for Succes 1-3; Effective transitions; Teaching for Success 1-2; Assessing for Success
Webinars
Modern Language Assistants – supporting language teaching and bringing languages to life: 5pm 25th January 2024, with Vicky Gough Click here to register
Motivation through Foundational Knowledge – The Three Pillars: 1st February 2024, with Bernadette Holmes Click here to register
NCLE are offering Universal CPD synchronous webinars and are building a UCPD platform. Click here to sign up to the mailing list if you would like to be kept up-to-date on activities like this.
National Consortium of Languages Education – Vision
- Languages and intercultural agility can help to foster universal understanding and contribute to building a peaceful and harmonious world future
- Global Britain needs more and better language skills. In our globalised economy, language skills and intercultural understanding add value and widen opportunities for individuals, communities and society
- To fulfil this potential, we must leverage the value of all our languages by providing high quality language teaching in schools to increase languages uptake at GCSE
- We must better recognise and support the rich diversity of languages in addition to English, spoken by one in every five of our pupils
- We must provide levelling up opportunities for disadvantaged pupils and address the performance of boys
- We believe in collaboration, creativity and collegiality. To build capacity in languages across the regions, we listen to teachers and pupils and develop core and bespoke training to meet their language learning needs
- We are committed to building progress through policy, principles, professional development and promotion. We uphold the recommendations and principles enshrined in Sir Ian Bauckham’s 2016 Modern Foreign Languages Pedagogy Review (henceforth MFLPR2016)
International Newcastle supports the vision of NCLE and their aims and objectives. We have taken an approach which supports language learning and teaching, intercultural awareness, as well as international experiences through links with schools in other countries. We strongly believe that providing access to these opportunities for all children and young people, especially the most disadvantaged, helps nurture their confidence, skills and future opportunities of the and prepare them for life in an increasingly interconnected world. You can read more about our work to achieve this, progress to date and future plans in our brochure, Empowering Newcastle’s Youth for a Global Future.