Teacher+discussions

Inter-cultural Principles** Integrating language and culture - capturing their interest emphasis**e** is on communication - making an attempt is better than not looking at the historical aspects of a culture special occaisions - what is important to eg the French culture, what are their special days. Compare with NZ culture. Comparisons and similarities Need a context in which to use the language - eg invite a French guest to talk about France with students, French movie - with sub titles, show photos, an artifact. Take to a French restaurant - phone up restaurant to ask if possible to sample authentic food. Asterix, You Tube vidoes Connects students to the culture - language is not in isolation. Integrating the language in different ways Takapuna Int - Production " The Assignment - Cultures in our school" has helped Forum on French Culture on KnowledgeNet - discussion added by class How to promote in your class - will be easier next year, a number of things I would do differently
 * Workshop 2 - 28.7.08 Takapuna Intermediate

 I find fitting it in to my programme hard - easy to leave out if things in classroom get busy. At least you have made start - mandated in 2010  Being a non speaker of the language is tough - learning alongside students - hard to extend students. Just-in-time teaching opportunities get missed because of my lack of depth in kn owing the language Training - to upskill teachers is Ministry goal - delayed until 2010 Pre service is critical - need to train existing teachers. Many levels of knowledge - need language and pedagogy Important to have a go - within constraints of timetable There are Teachers who have done 1 year course - have background knowledge, aware of errors to pick up. Not about accuracy, it is about giving kids a basis to start to to learn a language at high school level - a taster, an initial interest. Not needing to feel you have to extend them Students gain an advantage - better than nothing Huge challenge Struggle with time/timetable - I teach all the other subjects. Good to learn about the culture as well as the language. I should be showing them my resources. Sharing, working together with another teacher in my team who is also doing French. International language week coming up. Little things, little bit at a time. Guest speaker in to get the motivation
 * Follow up discussions** on teacher's inquiry

everyone listening to one skype conversation hard needs to be paired rather than whole class Only have 1 computer using skype at the same time - not viable Building up communicating - the language knowledge. Interactive One day practice in pairs - next day have the same conversation on skype work within our school first - cross classes management ok with small group Not helping the language skills - good as a reinforcer too low a level to bridge the communication Make them think in a different way to commun icate - mindset when using the lnaguage - can't wait - on the spot How could we make it work - classroom expereince - skype intercultural process. Use mimio helps them with learning the language Mimio - photos of kids - body name the parts able to ralte to that goog for teaching the lnag.real time conversation is difficcult they don't have enough formulaic phrases. Skype more the end - build up to. Become familiar with the programme. use of garageband - students love using garageband - excited are being critical about what they are recording - revised and re recorded putting up on knowledgenet - created pages with a photo of their puppet - recorded their intr to their puppet as teacher - have a background in languages - French, Italian have a good pronunciation video recorded of here working in another class - could set up across more classrooms video conference as a strategy - i would not be able to teach as effectively watching the interaction, questions, revise the lesson as she goes along - real time. Know how to teach a language - knowing the strategies of how to teach a language What is the impact on the language learning extended the trial to the end of year - all languages. Principal keen to continue with Rosetta stone. ESOL as well to hear pronunciation. Lot of teachers who are not confident - use ful tool to develop teachers language alongside the students. My pronuncaition - hearing the language spoken by French speakers is beneficial. Students are used to looking at screens - visual leaaners. Used on a 1-1 basis - not used data projector yet. They are starting to use more complex sentences. Students find it really easy to use. They are learning - opportunities off computer. Created puppets - to have a conversation. Created a puppet profile on KnowledgeNet - written in French. Need to keep updated Wrote postcard in French - using a translater website. Can type in a word or sentence and it will translate and speak it in French. Communicative approach - good for pronunciation. Need to put it into practice so they can communicate. RS is the vehicle to communication, developing their vocab. Recognise quite a bit now - still need prompting, shy to speak because they are used to doing it one on one. Puppets are helping them to speak more. Communication with one another - in small groups can come up with a conversation. Getting them now to think about replying in French. All at different levels - some are able to put time in at home. web based some motivated to put in a lot of hours - the interest is there. Maybe not working for all but in a normal classroom maybe they would not be motivated. We work on it in the ICT suite for 30 mins - like being on the computers - captures their interest and motivation. Need the opportunity to interact. May be gaps in some things - worry about verb table - Give them formulaic phrases is the better way. I'll sit down and do RS with them
 * Where are you at with the use of the technolgy**
 * Skype** - issues - bandwidth too small to cope.
 * video conferencing** - works well for basic formulaic conversations
 * Rosetta Stone**

P makes you think about how you use IT in lang prog and outside lang prog. Made me think about it more given me an opportunity to look at Rosetta stone - to report back. School's trialling the prog to decide whether to make the finacial commitment to use it. Given more evidence - a real purpose behind using it. Students enjoy usinf tech - to learn a lang thru tech - seem more motivated Garageband, video conversations, puppet profile Knet - huge plus for students Internet to search Cultural stuff Linguprime - games ansd interactive emailing French to teacher

M Tech I'm using not suitable - hard to do whole class when more 1-1 Problems setting up 2 places expectations not clear at beginning - confusion about the project. other people might have been better communications - selected, only brief conversation Not knowing what it was all about Had to be people who had not been trained - confusion over who to be on this project

I Interested to know how it will work in 2010 - when everyone will have to teach a lang Lot of training involved - a commitment we have to take on at this level. What are the expectations Rosetta Stone - been very valuable as a learning program hat are the expectations we have of what students will know by end of year Does a fluent speaker - how does that effect the students Pronunciation focus as a fluent speaker - harder if not Having a resource makes it easier - all laid out with a progression Technologies - support the learning Rosetta Stone - series of lesson plans, teaches the lang Hard when you don't speak the lang - would like to have had the basics. Daunting Need the resources - to find the answers Will schools get specialist in to teach it? - Native or trained language speaker