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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

New Technology, new teaching.

274 days ago

In today’s world of social media and technical communications we have unprecedented opportunities to contact, communicate with and inform our various stakeholders. Lockdowns have pushed us to develop a new skill set of electronic teaching and communications. Everywhere we see Podcasts from all sectors. The question this week is how our HPL community is using this technology. Are you making Podcasts for parents? Are you posting video content online to support home learning? How is it best used? Share with us your experiences in our subject communities and possibly gets some great ideas shared by others.

Personally, I have created quite a large number of videos for my pupils in which I explain exam techniques or provide online learning based on the content from their lessons. I choose to share these using YouTube, which they can access both in school and at home. Is anyone else doing something similar? Do share!

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