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NVQ
in
INTERNATIONAL  
BUSINESS
COMMUNICATIONS (IBC)

WHAT IS AN NVQ IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS?

• Flexible programme – mix & match levels to suit your pupil’s needs
• Develop language skills in an international Business context
• Portfolio based assessment - No exams
• Available in French / Spanish / German

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?

• Boost language options in your school  - The IBC programme enables you to make a positive contribution to your schools KS4 results.
• Applicable to All pupils:
• Motivates lower ability Yr10 & Yr11 pupils
• Offers additional language opportunities with real context for pupils wanting an additional language (KS4 & KS5)
• Opportunity to obtain a language qualification for Yr9 students
• Company visits provide excellent learning opportunities to practise skills.
• The IBC programme is a fully comprehensive programme including a Scheme of Work, materials to support each unit and ready made assessments.

HOW DO I GET STARTED?
Book a place on the next available Free Introductory Session
which takes you through the programme material and provides support and guidance.

Contact: Claire Parry
IBC-NVQ@hotmail.co.uk

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Comenius East Midlands and CILT are holding the following FREE event

Modern Foreign Languages:
Coaching skills: training and their use in SLNs

9.15 am – 3.30 pm
Wednesday 2nd July 2008

Comenius East Midlands
Quorn Hall, Meynell Road, Quorn, Leicestershire LE12 8BG

Course Provider:
Chris Morris, KS3 Regional Trainer for the East & West Midlands

“Internal capacity is the power to engage in and sustain continuous learning of teachers and the school for the purpose if enhancing pupil learning”
(Improving School Effectiveness: Louise Stoll)

We are being encouraged to use coaching as a tool to bring about improvements in our own choices through our Strategic Learning Networks.  In response to this encouragement, and to the government’s identification of staff development as a key principle in its 5-year plan, we are delighted to offer this major training opportunity to all schools in our regions networks.

Course objectives:

1. To come to a common understanding of the term ‘coaching’
2. To consider the potential of coaching as a professional development tool in       relation to SLNs and MFL departments
3. To develop some of the skills needed to be an effective coach

Click here for application form

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Promoting Languages
across the School
Eva Lamb

In most schools participation in language learning at Key Stage 4 has seen a dramatic decline; in some the number of students taking languages to GCSE is so low that language teachers are forced to teach other subjects or are facing redundancy.

Schools now have to indicate in their SEFs what measures they are putting in place to ensure participation above 50% and they will need to report to OFSTED how they are implementing this statutory requirement.
In most schools the responsibility for ensuring a viable uptake has been placed firmly with the languages department, with language teachers having to develop strategies to encourage pupils to continue their language learning beyond the age of 14. Languages clearly have to shout a lot harder to make themselves heard and to secure their place in the Key Stage 4 curriculum.

This session is designed to support language departments in their efforts to promote languages with a variety of audiences:

• School Management and Governors
• Parents
• Pupils       

It will look at a variety of strategies which have been employed successfully by various schools across the country ensuring high uptake of languages post-14.

3 dates / 3 venues!!

Leeds:        Tuesday, 17th June 2008, 16.30- 18.00
Trinity and All Saints Comenius Centre, Horsforth, Leeds

Doncaster: Thursday, 19th June 2008, 19.00- 20.30
Mexborough School, Maple Rd, Mexborough

Lincoln:     Wednesday, 25th June 2008, 16.30- 18.00
Lincoln Christ's Hospital School, Wragby Rd, Lincoln

Click here to download flier and application form.

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MUNDI Global Education Centre in Nottingham is organising a regional event on 30th June 2008 for educational authorities and practitioners interested in learning about school linking and its possibilities for bringing a global dimension into the curriculum and teaching modern foreign languages, both key education policies in the UK.

We have managed to secure a very interesting line-up of keynote speakers and there will be stimulating workshops running throughout the day (see conference flyer and registration form).

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Vive la France à Besançon!

22 October to 1 November 2008

Teaching French at upper or advanced level and looking to refresh your knowledge of French society and culture? Interested in developing new skills?

Click here for more details

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Italiano alla florentina

23rd October to 1 November 2008

Teaching Italian and looking to inprove your language skills?
Want to refresh your knowledge of Italian life and culture?

Click here for more details