Preparing carefully beforehand is the best way to be ready to improvise successfully during a lesson. When you know your lesson well, your working memory is free to perceive what students are doing & thinking. This allows you to better decide how to make adaptations & changes.

Thank you to everyone who's added their covid safe MFL ideas to the padlet so far. I haven't actually added any myself yet but will soon! If anyone else wants to add any the link is below ⬇️⬇️⬇️ padlet.com/pdwarren18/xw7…

🇩🇪🇫🇷🇪🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 20+ TEACHER & COVID FRIENDLY ACTIVITIES FOR LANGUAGE LESSONS Lack of guidance on what can/not be done in this era of the new normal is 😤 but if you're after some ideas that could work well on the return to school, try these! > bit.ly/3hER5kd #mfltwitterati

And for my next trick, our MFL T&L policy. Dreamt this up in a CPD session last year and it looks exactly how I'd imagine. What a dream student does in the language, how to get there and what it could get you. #mfltwitterati #edutwitter #tandl

Another day another planning session 🤓 Flooded input inspired by Dr Gianfranco Conti to increase Ss confidence using different tenses when discussing school subjects 🇪🇸

Received a ‘teachers golden ticket’ today. 🎫🤩 A day off to be taken on any day in recognition for the hard work put into the last 6 months during lockdown. As did every teacher in my school. Once again, my HT getting staff wellbeing 👏🏼absolutely👏🏼spot👏🏼on!👏🏼 #edutwitter ❤️🍎

Today we launch the #AntheaBell Prize for Young Translators, a brand new #MFL competition for schools! Interested teachers will receive teaching packs, including one for European Day of Languages & International Translation Day #mfltwitterati register here:queens.ox.ac.uk/schools-transl…

Does anyone have any tips or ideas for jazzing up speaking lessons with senior Spanish students? There are only a few pupils and it can be a bit ‘ forced ‘- would like to adopt a new approach! #mfltwitterati

Can anyone suggest a good tarsia maker that I could easily type on and print? #mfltwitterati

Want to make some narrow reading exercises this weekend. Does anyone know of a template for these? I don’t want to spend ages messing around with text boxes! 🙏 #mfltwitterati

Thank you so much to Esmeralda Salgado for such generosity - I’m learning so much!

Is anyone doing anything for National Poetry Day tomorrow? #MFLchat #mfltwitterati

Don't miss out on the Digital Enterprise Challenge in partnership with Young Enterprise Scotland and supported by Scottish Tech Army - a great #opportunity to develop #enterprise #skills! #edutwitter #scoted bit.ly/YESDigiEntChal…

Humbled & grateful to Helen Fox Jo Spencer-Hall Rachel Grice Giovanna @SJBarnes81 Jo Pickering MCCT who've banded together to develop classroom.remembermore.app fast, flexible spaced retrieval practice decks - for the MFL community. #MFLtwitterati #ff - I know its not Friday

If you could distill all the greatest benefits of EdTech in the classroom into a sentence or two , what would you say it does? Increase motivation? Using language in real contexts ? Higher Order thinking skills? Trying to compile a list! 🙏 #mfltwitterati

I tried out whiteboard.fi today and I could see the names of the students and their whiteboards, but all were blank- what did I do wrong? Help! #mfltwitterati

Have been loving The Travel Diaries by Coffee Break Spanish - thank you so much! I’m using them with my students to talk about trips in the past tense.

I have enjoyed turning my daily commute into brilliant CPD, from both @motclasspodcast , and this week, from @pagepracticepod - brilliant episodes on retrieval practice and today’s was Being More Toddler, which has inspired me. Thank you for taking the time to to make these !

Still having problems with whiteboard.fi today; it worked when I joined on my iPhone but it doesn’t seem to work when pupils join on Chromebooks! Can anyone help? #mfltwitterati

Trying to collate a list of ideas and top tips to help senior students who are struggling with listening . Any bright ideas welcome 🙏 #mfltwitterati