Raising intercultural awareness and understanding
The key aim of our project was to explore ways of delivering language at Key Stage 3 in a richer cultural context to enable language learning to become more motivating and engaging for our students. We hoped to help students appreciate the richness and diversity of other cultures and to deepen their understanding of a range of intercultural themes. We felt that this strand of the renewed Key Stage 3 framework was still largely undeveloped in many schools and perhaps only touched on in a superficial way. This view was confirmed recently by the Ofsted report published in January 2011 on Modern languages “Achievement and challenge 2007-2010”, which states that pupil’s intercultural understanding “...was weak in the majority of the schools visited because they did not have good opportunities to develop it”.
We wanted to create a bank of stimulating and exciting resources to engage and inspire learners. We also aimed to develop a range of teaching and learning strategies which could be trialled in a variety of different local schools. Seven city secondary schools took part in the project, ranging from a Specialist Language College where all pupils study a language at KS4 to three project partner schools where the uptake at Key Stage 4 is currently below 10%. It was hoped that we could provide a variety of different models for incorporating intercultural understanding into the Key Stage 3 Scheme of Work.
We also hoped to develop students’ thinking skills by creating a range of opportunities for them to study aspects of different cultures in greater depth for example by investigating, by comparing and contrasting, by looking at changes over time and by exploring different interests, opinions and beliefs.
Finally, we wanted to foster links with other areas of the curriculum in order to broaden the context in which students learn.
The 7 Leicester City schools which took part in the project were:
Babington Community Technology College
Beaumont Leys
Fullhurst
Judgemeadow Specialist Language College
Moat Community College
Rushey Mead School
Soar Valley College
My thanks go to Sue Boda, Jamie James, Pepita Rodriguez-Dixon, Jane Facer, Kirsty Abercrombie, Sonya Grant, Gemma Needham and Lesley Sunderland for all their commitment and hard work during the project.
Below are the main resources from the project.
Hope you find them useful!
Project 1: La santé: Year 9
Judgemeadow Specialist Language College
Enriching a current Scheme of Work
Lower Ability Group
Download Evaluation and reflection of first 3 lessons
Download Haiti - collective memory
Download _3x3_le petit-déjeuner
Download Exercice d'ecoute lower set (Pupils complete the listening task from the following video clip:
http://www.wat.tv/video/haiti-avant-catastrophe-ont-23igx_2eyrb_.html
Higher Ability Group
Download Pourquoi_manger_le_petit_d%c3%a9jeuner[1]
Download Comparisons-Haiti-and-France
Download Video_Transcript_Haiti
Download Smoking PP [Autosaved]
Beaumont Leys College
A new Scheme of Work (one Term)
Download Scheme of Work - la santé
Download Yr9_Culture_Lesson_1_vert
Download Yr9_Culture_Lesson_2[1]
Download Diamond_ranking_exercise
Download Haiti_Comparisons_SEN_sheet
Download Haiti_Comparisons_ANSWERS
Download Differentiatedresourceslesson3
Download Lesson_4_Problem_Consequence_Map
Download Lesson_4_Writing_frame_rouge
Download Differentiatedresourceslesson5 next
Download Differentiatedresourceslesson6
Download Differentiatedresourceslesson7
Download Yr9V_Culture_Lesson_8
Download Differentiatedresourceslesson10
Download Differentiatedresourceslesson11
Download Differentiatedresourceslesson12
Project 2: La vie scolaire: Year 8
Soar Valley College
A mini project in an existing Scheme of Work
Download PowerPoint la vie scolaire2
Project 3: La francophonie: Year 8/9
Moat Community College and Rushey Mead Secondary School
Enriching a current unit of work
Download Le_Monde_Francophone[1]2
Download La_francophonie_millionaire2
Download Le_Monde_Francophone_worksheet
Download List_of_Francophone_countries
Download La_Francophonie_homework
Download Le_Climat_des_Pays_Francophones
Download Welcome_to_Lyon!_GNE[1]
Project 4: Le changement climatique: Year 8
Babington Community College
A small unit of work
Download Le_Changement_Climatique
Download Le_rechauffement_de_la_terre
Download Les Conséquences de la sécheresse
Download PowerPoint Les conséquences de la sécheresse2
Download Les_Desastres_Climatiques_quiz
Download Desastres_climatiques_Answers_Fr_Eng
Project 5: Les fêtes: Year 8
Fullhurst Community College
A mini project
Hi
I really like the SoW for la santé and the resources, I was wondering if there are any vocab lists available?
Posted by: Louise | Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 04:31 AM