Leading the way (YPF16)
Coordinating primary languages

Bernadette Clinton and Marion Vincent

As schools meet the requirement for every Key Stage 2 child to learn a language at school, teachers taking on the role of primary languages coordinator will find essential support in this new Young Pathfinder. Leading the way offers practical help and necessary encouragement for the exciting, yet daunting, challenge of leading primary languages. The sound advice makes the successful, integrated teaching of languages in primary school a realistic goal.

Grounded in the authors’ experiences of leading languages in a number of schools, this book is a guide to the key issues and provides suggestions for managing every stage: from the very first steps of deciding on which languages to teach all the way to tackling the transition of children to Key Stage 3 after their years of primary language learning.

It offers guidance on:

• enthusing key stake holders who may be skeptical: from senior management to teachers, governors and parents;
• integrating languages into the primary school curriculum, and achieving excellence through manageable and realistic means;
• effective methods of assessment;
• choosing resources;  
• managing staff development;
• drawing up a school languages plan and policy and examining sample languages policies;
• making the most of the resources available, within school, nationally and internationally – through international projects and links;
• planning for transition;
• coping with OFSTED inspection.

An all encompassing guide to leading primary languages in school, Leading the way  will offer immense support to new subject coordinators, and fresh ideas for coordinators who are already leading languages.

September 2008 | pp | ISBN-13: 978-1-904243-73-1 | ISBN-10: 1-904243-73-8 | £10

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