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International Education Week 2024 - British Council
The British Council are busy planning exciting events and resources for International Education Week 2024 which will take place from 18 to 22 November.
Follow the links below to find out more:
TPL Thursdays! Bitesize Professional Learning
Find out more about Language Trends, Careers with Languages, Pedagogical Approaches to Language Learning, Raising the Profile of Languages and Nurturing Young Linguists.
The TPL Thursdays! Language Landscape Supporting Materials can be accessed below.
The GCHQ National Language Competition 2024
We are pleased to confirm the date of the 2024 GCHQ National Language Competition, which will run from Monday 18th November - Friday 22nd November.
The National Language Competition (NLC) is a virtual competition where teams from schools around the UK compete against each other to solve language-based puzzles and score points. The overall winners are then invited to GCHQ’s headquarters in Cheltenham to receive their trophy!
With the NLC, GCHQ aims to inspire language learning by encouraging students to discover their aptitude for learning languages. Some sample challenges are provided below- why not encourage your pupils to have a go?
Teachers can register their interest in the NLC 2024 by contacting [email protected]
Please contact us on [email protected] if you have any other issues or queries.
Upcoming events hosted by the British Council
Check out upcoming events hosted by the British Council.
Celebrate Speaking
Speaking another language is an incredible skill – and it’s great fun too! Give your students the chance to practise and celebrate their favourite language, whether it’s one they're learning in class or one they speak in their community. Join our festival of language in February.
Employ a language assistant
Thinking of bringing a modern language assistant into your classroom in 2024-25? Find out how it could benefit your students and what’s involved. Applications open 29 February.
Education Exchange: Climate
Join our webinar on 1 February to learn how to set up climate change and sustainability education in schools.
Year of the Dragon: Free resources
Celebrate the Year of the Dragon in your classroom with our free teaching resource and explore Chinese language and culture.
Irish Language Broadcast Fund | An Ciste Craoltóireachta Gaeilge
Worthwhile for teachers to explore this digital archive of films in Irish provided by An Ciste Craoltóireachta Gaeilge.
Lots of material for different age groups and different levels of fluency.
International Education Week - Languages
This is International Education Week. Please check out all the resources available from the British Council.
The Languages Gateway
A very useful source for resources and information for languages has recently been launched - The Languages Gateway.
We would encourage all language teachers to explore what is available on the site. Searches can be refined to a particular language and to a particular UK region.
New examination paper layout
In Summer 2023, examinations papers for AS and A2 Extended Writing will move to on-line marking. This has entailed some minor changes to the layout of the papers.
Exemplars of the new layout can be found below, and on the GCE Irish (2016) Support page under the General tab.
Suitable for Year 14 Irish students perhaps? Seminar: Jobs in the EU
CCEA Education Team (Languages) want to inform you of an invitation by An Coimisiún to:
Seimineár
2 Samhain
deiseanna fostaíochta in institiúidí an Aontais Eorpaigh
An bhfuil suim agat sna deiseanna fostaíochta atá ar fáil in institiúidí an Aontais Eorpaigh do dhaoine a bhfuil an Ghaeilge acu?
Beidh seimineár lae á eagrú ag an gCoimisiún Eorpach agus ag Rialtas na hÉireann Dé Céadaoin, an 2 Samhain, faoi scáth Oireachtas na Samhna 2022 chun daoine a chur ar an eolas faoi na deiseanna éagsúla atá ar fáil.
Féach an clár anseo.
Mar a fheicfidh tú, beidh seisiúin eolais á reáchtáil ar maidin againn le daoine ó na hinstitiúidí éagsúla faoin rogha gairmeacha atá ann do dhaoine a bhfuil an Ghaeilge acu agus faoi na folúntais atá agus a bheidh ar fáil. Beidh ionadaithe rialtais agus ollscoile in Éirinn ann chomh maith chun labhairt faoi na cúrsaí ollscoile atá ar fáil agus faoin gcaoi le hullmhú le cur isteach ar na folúntais éagsúla.
Beidh deis ann ansin freastal ar cheardlanna praiticiúla ar an láthair agus beidh deis eile ann trathnóna freastal ar cheardlanna praiticiúla ar líne. Seo seans triail a bhaint as an gcineál oibre a bhíonn idir lámha sna hinstitiúidí agus comhairle a fháil ó dhaoine atá fostaithe cheana féin sna poist seo.
Ní mór an fhoirm seo a líonadh le cur in iúl dúinn an mbeidh tú i láthair ar an lá agus cad iad na ceardlanna gur mhaith leat freastal orthu. Beidh líon teoranta spásanna ann agus mar sin tabharfar tús áite dóibh siúd is luaithe a chláróidh. Dúnfar an clárú ag 16:00 ar an 26 Deireadh Fómhair.
Literature News
Here is a link to the BBC Gaeilge series of programmes Céim In Airde which cover the literature element at A2 Level.
NICILT Teacher Professional Learning Webinars with Joe Dale
CCEA Education Team (Languages) would like to inform languages teachers of three twilight professional learning webinars offered by NICILT in collaboration with Joe Dale:
Quizzing tools and retrieval practice in MFL
Monday 11th January, 8pm – 9pm:
Hybrid teaching for Roomies and Zoomies
Monday 18th January, 8pm – 9pm:
Harnessing the power of Bitmojis and Jamboard to engage learners in and out of the MFL classroom
Monday 25th January, 8pm – 9pm
For more information and to register, please follow the link below: