Polyglot and wanderer. Passionate about learning, teaching, languages, rights, travel and the wonders of nature. 🇫🇷🇵🇱🇪🇸🇩🇪🇺🇦🇨🇳#gaelic
Joined April 2021
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Feeling immense gratitude for the past 3 years, following a passion, igniting a spark in others and supporting them on their individual journeys. Solutions to global challenges seem closer when our classrooms are language-ing and developing cultural understanding + empathy in CYP
A wonderful introduction to the 24/25 #SLLP cohort as we met with Team @SheenaSCILT and heard about everyone's diverse roles and experience. What came through strongly is a real commitment to personal development and to ensuring excellent equitable experiences for learners
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Languages + Global Citizenship go hand in hand 🤝
This free downloadable resource is for MFL teachers looking to explore common vocabulary through global issues: migration, Fairtrade + gender equality 🌍
#MFLtwitterati #MFLchat #scotlandloveslanguages @scottishscilt @saltlangs
Great to finish up the Middle Leaders Leading Change programme by reflecting on the really valuable themes of stakeholder engagement and anti-racism #MLLC #EdScotPLL
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Always a fab mix of contributors to Scottish Languages Review #practitioners #researchers #students
What insights about an aspect of languages education #practice #policy #research will you share?
#ThinkPiece #PracticeInsight #ResearchWorkingPaper #BookReview #ConferenceReview
On the back of the publication of the latest edition we invite those interested in contributing to the next SLR to express their interest. Visit our website for info on the journal, the types of articles we are looking for and Issue 37 loom.ly/fi2faEc #languages #research
I'm really enjoying my latest adventures in AI and exploring the different ways it can support languages learning in Primary and Secondary, freeing up space for creative teaching #alwayslearning @magicschoolai
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Languages aren't inherently difficult. They're new ways of engaging with the world. Whether you're travelling, relating to other people or training your brain, languages benefit us all. You don't need to be a linguist. Plus, learning a language gives you an edge across the board.
20+ yrs ago, local schools worked creatively to offer a wider curriculum and I 'crashed' Higher Spanish, building my lang repertoire. Now, after 10 days in Panama, reflecting on how knowledge of another lang and people opens doors, fosters understanding and connects us #lovelangs
A great reminder that #multilingualisnormal 🗺️💬
Delighted to participate again as a Critical Friend in the SLLP
#SLLP Core Day 2 Saturday morning with the #LangsLeadScot 2023-24 critical friends. Reading 1st journal submissions, collaborating on drafting our commentaries #Feedforward #BuildingCapacity #LeadershipMatters #LanguagesMatter
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Lots of us know someone who speaks a language we don’t. Today’s challenge will help us to connect with this person, their language and their culture, and reflect on the benefits of living in a multicultural, multilingual society. scilt.org.uk/LWS/DailyChalle…
#ScotlandLovesLanguages
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Languages Week Scotland 2023 celebrates how languages equip us as individuals & a society to contribute to a more peaceful world.
Language skills build trust and deepen diplomatic and cultural relations between countries and cultures.
#ScotlandLovesLanguages
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We are working with Bilingualism Matters to offer professional learning and networking opportunities to teachers in complementary and Saturday schools, and we would like to find out from these teachers what kind of PL would be most useful scilt.org.uk/News/NewsView/t…
"There is no one size fits all but providing information in the languages of key stakeholders, and adjusting the communication medium and platform to their capacities is key to reaching everyone in the community."
"Language barriers can make public communication inaccessible and exclude people from equitable participation in education, employment, healthcare, welfare, and all aspects of social life."
A must read on LOM!!!
Language Barriers to Social Participation languageonthemove.com/langua…
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Languages are about broadening your outlook, making new discoveries, learning where words come from & how we're all connected, appreciating other traditions & points of view & celebrating a diverse world. Whatever else you're into, languages bring us together & take you further.
What to do on the first Monday evening of the holidays..? Attend a webinar to hear about primary languages, of course! Great to learn of some 🏴 and 🏴 teacher-led projects 🔡📖📚 and of wider 🌍 research too. @riplnetwork
The first time I've continued beyond a week!🇺🇦Tho I know myself well and am probably only here because it's not too challenging.Maybe I'll return to Mandarin after the summer. Thinking about that moment when a language just clicks. Or when it doesnt but we keep going anyway 😁
