Wednesday 15 July 2009
Chilworth Manor, Southampton
About the event
If you are a teacher or manager of community languages, this year’s show is a must!
This annual conference brings together a wide range of colleagues in the field of community languages education. This year we celebrate the outcomes of the Our Languages project and all delegates will receive a free Our Languages toolkit on forging successful partnerships between mainstream and complementary schools and a set of electronic resources featuring lesson plans, schemes of work and resources across a range of languages.
Who is the Show for?
• Teachers of community languages in primary and secondary schools and FE colleges
• Teachers of community languages in supplementary /complementary schools
• Managers in both mainstream and complementary schools
• Local authority Languages and Ethnic Minority Achievement teams
• Initial teacher trainers
• Researchers and policymakers with an interest in the community languages education field
Key themes include:
• Partnerships between mainstream and complementary schools
• Family learning
• Initial teacher training opportunities
• Accrediting language skills, including within the 14-19 diplomas
• Community cohesion
• The learning continuum from primary to higher education
Exhibition
A free exhibition runs alongside the conference, giving delegates the opportunity to browse the latest resources for teaching, promoting and supporting community languages.
The 2009 conference also hosts the official launch of the Curriculum Guides in Cantonese, Gujarati, Somali and Yoruba from CILT, the National Centre for Languages and Goldsmiths, University of London.
Registration
To register online please go to: www.cilt.org.uk/cpd/clshow.htm
There are reduced conference fees of £25 for complementary school teachers, plus reimbursed travel costs, to ensure as wide an audience as possible can attend from the community languages field. For more details see the conference web page: www.cilt.org.uk/cpd/clshow.htm
