GLT: Languages Webinar - Learning to speak HPL

HPL

I love languages. When I look back at my life choices, the one thing that I can’t imagine is not being able to speak a different language. I wasn’t brought up bilingual, so all my skills and understanding started in the secondary school classroom in a comprehensive school in Wales and have blossomed from there. This is why I am so passionate about the skills that we teach the pupils sitting in front of us.

I have taught in and been responsible for language departments in a wide range of secondary schools, including mixed comprehensives, single-sex comprehensives, a boys’ grammar school and a British international school and what I love about HPL is that it gives me the vocabulary and the evidence to explain why I do things the way I do. HPL also provides us with a tool to guide our self-reflection and to expand the way in which we teach to enable the pupils sitting in front of us to fully develop their potential.

The principles for teaching and learning identified by HPL can become a real touchstone for us as curriculums and qualifications change – we have evidence of how best to provide our pupils with the skills they need to learn. Not just now, but as they move forward into a world of work that demands that workers change, adapt and learn.

HPL can help us to give pupils the skills they need to become successful language learners and give them access to something that they will have for the rest of their lives.

- Deanne Wiseman

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Deanne Wiseman

Languages Webinar - Learning to speak HPL

Friday, 15 September 2023, 2:43 PM

HPL in the Classroom Webinar: Speaking HPL in the Languages in the Classroom
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This webinar explores how to “speak HPL” in the language classroom. I guide participants through a consideration of how HPL can be used as a tool for both planning and self-reflection for the teacher and how teachers can use it to enable their pupils to become lifelong language learners.

FGC schools can access the webinar and the presentation here: https://members.highperformancelearning.co.uk/mod/folder/view.php?id=2797

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(Edited by Cassey Benito - original submission Thursday, 21 September 2023, 5:58 PM)

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