Working with your trainees
Specific training needs
On-line articles
The articles available here are from the CILT ITT bulletin called Links. They have been selected for tutor reading but may also be suitable for trainees.
- The progress of non-English native-speaker student teachers (pdf), Jones, B. (2001) Links, 23
- The training needs of native speaker teachers of MFL (pdf), Pagliero, H and Holmes, B. (2000) Links, 22
Resource support
Please support our ITT MFL community and share your own relevant documentation, you can email us to feed into the development of this resource.
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Pre-course tasks: Preparation for my training year as a secondary school teacher
CILT is happy to share this resource with the ITE community in case it is relevant to other routes and providers. It was devised to help Foreign Language Assistants make the most of their placements in secondary schools before embarking on the CILT GTP so is particularly aimed at trainees who come from abroad. All sections are referenced against the new standards. Please send feedback to Sarah Cartwright (Language Teaching Adviser, ITE) if you make use of these tasks with your own trainees.
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national education systems
As part of learning to teach in the countries of the United Kingdom, it is often challenging for native-speakers of languages other than English to understand and absorb important differences in detail between the education systems in which they grew up, and the one in which they are starting to work. This INCA website resource provides a set of comparative data in tabular form which may help the beginning native-speaker teacher address the objective of developing a broad understanding of the education system in which they are beginning to operate. INCA is the International Review of Curriculum and Assessment Frameworks Internet Archive. The website concentrates on education provided in schools and to the 3-19 age range and provides regularly updated descriptions of government policy on education in the countries of the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, USA and parts of Asia. There is particular reference to the curriculum and assessment frameworks in place and the site also features specific sections describing initial teacher training policy across the featured countries. Viewing this website might be set either as part of a pre-course task or as a part of an early taught programme task.
