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/icpjones 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

3. Bloom’sTaxonomy Give opinions, assess/ criteria Express rules, summarise, create Identify patterns and rules Predict, infer Explain, describe, illustrate Information recall: identify, list

4. 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.

6. Reasoningskills

7. Enquiryskills

8. CreativeThinkingskills

9. EvaluationskillsP R I C E

12. Draw inferences and make deductions

14. Il est pour oucontrel’uniforme? Pourquoi?

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

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

20. Creative Thinking Skills My Film dice game (can be done in English or TL) Raconte le film commesituétaisdans le role princial! 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

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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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.

28. Independent EnquirerActivities Mysteries

29. 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

31. 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...

33. 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”.

35. Focus on developing students’ skills and independence

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

37. Overlaps with AFL and SEAL

38. Training of support staff

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

41. Students as Independent learners

42. Cross-curricular support/time dedicated to skills building across the curriculum