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Community Languages - Professional Development & Training

For a current listing of community languages-related training events for teachers being held around the UK, please visit the Our Languages website.

On this page you will find information on the annual national conference for community languages education, held by CILT in collaboration with partners. You can read a report on the 2007 conference, together with plenary presentations from 2007 and 2008, and find out initial details for our 2009 conference in Southampton.

Annual national conference
Events log archive 2007-08
Accredited courses

Annual national conference

Community languages: Developing practice for the 21st Century is the national conference focusing on community languages education issues, held by CILT in collaboration with partners. First held in London in summer 2006, it aims to bring together teachers and managers, in mainstream and supplementary schools and in local authorities, to focus on strategic and practical issues in developing the quality and breadth of provision of community languages education. Download the report from the most recent conference below.

Sheffield 2008

Plenary 1: Lid King (ppt 0.6MB) Plenary 2: Angela Creese and Charmian Kenner (ppt 3.45MB)

 

Leicester 2007

2007 conference report (pdf 2.8MB) Plenary 1: Arvind Bhatt and Angela Creese (ppt 1MB) Plenary 2: Paul Morrish (ppt 3.3MB)

The 2009 conference will be held in Southampton on Wednesday 15 July. With a range of new workshop themes, free resources for all delegates and subsidised places for complementary school teachers, this year’s show is a must. Booking is now open on the conference web page.

The conference forms part of CILT's work to promote routes to Qualified Teacher Status. Routes to QTS for community languages teachers are summarised in the Qualify to teach community languages (pdf 308 KB) leaflet. Contact the CILT enquiry line or phone 020 7633 3500 if you require a hard copy.

Events log 2007-08

2008 Community Languages Events Log (pdf 237KB)

2007 Community Languages Events Log (pdf 46KB)

Accredited Courses

Please see the Qualify section for routes to Qualified Teacher Status.

Certificate in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (CTAFL) SOAS Language Centre, London
A one-year part-time course for new and practising teachers of Arabic. The Language Centre at SOAS is offering a part-time Certificate course in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (CTAFL) from September 2008. It is aimed at practising teachers and those who have no previous teaching experience. The course will take place on Saturdays over three terms. See the SOAS website for further course information, timetables and information on how to apply.

Japanese Teacher Training Course - Stage I and Stage II at SOAS Language Centre, London
This course comprises 120 hours (stage I, basic course) and 90 hours (stage II, for those who have some knowledge of the methodology) of teacher training for native Japanese and Japanese speakers of near-native fluency, covering both theoretical and practical aspects of teaching Japanese to foreign students.
See the SOAS website for further information.

Certificate in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (TCAFL) at SOAS Language Centre, London
A one-year part-time course for new and practising teachers of Mandarin Chinese. This teaching certificate course is designed to meet the rapidly growing demand for trained and qualified teachers of Chinese in the UK.
See the SOAS website for further information.

The Goldsmiths College 'MA in Education' includes a module on 'Bilingualism and Biculturalism in Education'.
To find out more please contact: Admissions, Goldsmiths College, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW. Tel: 020 7919 7060 or 020 7919 7537. Email: admissions@gold.ac.uk. Information is also available on the Goldsmiths College website.

Teaching Community Languages
Teaching Community Languages is an OCN accredited training course for any London-based mother tongue tutors run by Tower Hamlets College at Arbour Square, Stepney, East London. There are 4 x level 3 credits available. Next course will start in November 2009. For further information contact Jackie Gooding Tel: 020 7510 7739, email: jackie.gooding@tower.ac.uk.

Effective Management Skills in Supplementary Schools
Effective Management Skills in Supplementary Schools is an OCN accredited training course for supplementary school co-ordinators, trustees, managers and volunteers, the first of its kind. The 4 day course typically takes place in the autumn term at the National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education in London. See the NRC website for more information or contact Rachel Bond. Tel: 020 7700 8189, Fax: 020 7700 8128, email: rachel.bond@continyou.org.uk.