1. EmbeddingThinkingSkills in your MFL Lessons Isabelle Jones, Head of Languages, The Radclyffe School, Lead Teacher Oldham SLN, North West RSA (ALL) @icjoneshttp://twitter.com/icpjonesicpjones@yahoo.co.uk My Languages Blog http://isabellejones.blogspot.com PLTS in MFL wiki http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com/

2. Strategies for embedding Thinking Skills in Schemes of Work Ideas for developing a repertoire of Thinking Skills activities Ideas for using ICT to support the development of Thinking Skills

4. PLTS in the new Secondary Curriculum

6. Bloom’s Taxonomy SYNTHESIS Competition: Write excuses why you have not done your homework/why you are late. Using the tourist website for Martinique, invent your own “advertising a holiday destination” practice task. Brainstorm elements of a ghost story/fairy story, research necessary language and write your own story. Poubelle/Basura – from a selection of evidence decide what might have happened to a missing person.

8. http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/mfl

10. Reasoningskills

11. Enquiryskills

12. CreativeThinkingskills

13. EvaluationskillsP R I C E

16. Draw inferences and make deductions

18. Il est pour oucontrel’uniforme? Pourquoi?

19. Un livrevert, c’estbien. Comment dit-on “a green plant”?

20. What would you say if you had the complete opposite view? Any more questions?

25. Creative Thinking Skills My Film dice game (can be done in English or TL) Raconte le film commesituétaisdans le role principal! Le role principal 1=une petite fille 2=un adolescent 3=une grand-mère 4=unetortue 5=une danseuse 6=un chanteur de rock B. L’ événement principal 1=un spectacle 2=des vacanceshorribles 3=un cambriolage 4=un voyage 5=un concert 6=une course B. Le lieu principal 1=l’ école 2=les Bahamas 3=un château hanté 4=un bateau de croisière 5=un stade 6=un musée

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35. PLTS in the New Secondary National Curriculum self manager independent enquirer creative thinker team worker reflective learner effective participator

37. Independent Enquirer

38. CreativeThinker

39. ReflectiveLearner

40. Effective Participator

42. Self Manager Activities Sharing strategies to cope with the unknown (reading/ listening): language challenge [document/ recording in a different language/ designed for natives) E.g. L’ hôtel de ville Prepare ICT presentation Presentation about self/ a chosen topic Presentation about another culture Grammar point

43. Independent EnquirerActivities Links with mathematics data handling making predictions presenting and interpreting data (table/ bar chart/ pie chart/ pictogram Balance of diet Leisure/school activities Spending habits

44. Independent EnquirerActivities Mysteries Problem solving activity based round a given central question that is open to more than one reasonable answer. The information or 'clues' needed to answer the question are presented on separate slips of paper that your students will analyse, sort, sequence and link.

45. Independent EnquirerActivities Mysteries

46. CreativeThinkersActivities Create your own sandwich, fruit drink, ice cream... Invent mnemonics for particular vocabulary/ grammar rule Poems: recipes, acrostics, calligrams, comparisons Raps & rhythms Songs: “Ne me quitte pas” Je ferai... Rebus http://www.rebus-o-matic.com/index.php

47. CreativeThinkersActivities Create your own sandwich, fruit drink, ice cream... Invent mnemonics for particular vocabulary/ grammar rule Je  N’ aime pas

48. CreativeThinkersActivities Poems: Recipes Pour faire un bon ami, ilfaut: Deuxcuillères de générosité Beaucoup de sourires Ecouter pendant des heures Partager à la fin

49. CreativeThinkersActivities Poems: acrostics and calligrams nOrd de l’Angleterre Trop de pLuie inDustriel Humide Ateliers textiles Il y a un Marché What other types of words could we use? Names of people/ pets, favourite place/ holiday/ food/ hobbies/ colour/ music....

50. CreativeThinkersActivities Poems: calligrams (word mosaic) Image Chef: http://www.imagechef.com How would you use these symbols? What other symbols might you find useful?

51. CreativeThinkersActivities Raps & rhythms Le Rap j’ai un chat, Hannibal j’aides poissons. elle a un chien. vousavez des lions? nous avonsun lapin ellesontdeux serpents longs tu as un animal?

52. CreativeThinkersActivities Songs/ Poems: Ne Me quitte pas (Jacques Brel) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfegOxTCuOQ

53. CreativeThinkersActivities Rebus : Rebus http://www.rebus-o-matic.com/index.php Je m’appelle Isabelle C’estlundi J’aime les chats blancs

56. Effective ParticipatorActivities Teach part of the lesson: from initial vocabulary input to re-introducing the past tense for regular –er verbs Get involved in outreach activities: resources for Primary (mini books, recording stories, using video-conferencing), open evening Organising a languages club/ café Involvement in activities to prepare for a trip, exchange, option evening Displays, videos, LAFTA competition...

57. Team WorkerActivities Running dictation/ collective memory Students work together to create or re-create a text or a visual image in the form of a map, picture or diagram. Each student look at stimulus for a short period of time (e.g. 10 seconds) before returning to reproduce the original. Mysteries Living graphs Wikis

58. Team WorkerActivities Living Graphs

61. Embedding PLTS the BLP Way BLP? Building Learning Power Prof. Guy Claxton

62. Embedding PLTS the BLP Way “The 6 clusters of qualities are more than Skills that can be trained... The point is to cultivate these qualities into becoming dispositions, or habits of mind... Cultivation of the PLTS should run through the curriculum, life and ethos of the school, like lettering through a stick of rock.

63. Embedding PLTS the BLP Way The 4 Rs Resilience:absorption, managing distractions, noticing, perseverance Resourcefulness: questioning, making links, imagining, reasoning, capitalising Reflectiveness: planning, revising, distilling, meta-learning Reciprocity:interdependance, collaboration, empathy and listening

65. Focus on developing students’ skills and independence

66. Introducing Meta-language to talk about learning: mats, display

67. Overlaps with AFL and SEAL

68. Training of support staff

69. http://isabellejones.blogspot.com/2009/10/flip-cramlington-model-for-developing.html

71. Embedding PLTS

72. Embedding PLTS

73. Embedding PLTS

75. Students as Independent learners

77. Ideas for developing a repertoire of Thinking Skills activities

78. Ideas for using ICT to support the development of Thinking Skills Points for Action?

79. EmbeddingThinkingSkills in your MFL Lessons Wiki: PLTS in MFL http://pltsinmfl.wikispaces.com/ Isabelle Jones, Head of Languages, The Radclyffe School, Lead Teacher Oldham SLN, North West RSA (ALL) @icjoneshttp://twitter.com/icpjones My Languages Blog http://isabellejones.blogspot.com