Professional Development Clusters for MFL Teachers

Clusters of MFL teachers are now meeting in Reading/North Hampshire, Portsmouth/South Hampshire, Brighton/Sussex, Cheltenham/Gloucestershire, Oxford, South Oxfordshire and Birmingham. Another cluster is planned for Lincolnshire and Newcastle upon Tyne. The aim of the clusters is to:

• Create time after school to meet with local MFL colleagues and share in your professional development

• Revisit the PDC in MFL principles and use them as a basis for discussion

• Plan with your local colleagues how to apply one specific principle (or more) in your teaching

• Discuss and evaluate the outcomes together at subsequent meetings

Meetings are max 1.5 hours long, and take place 3-4 times per year, hosted by the teachers or teacher trainers involved in the cluster. The work of the PDC in MFL is used as a basis for discussion but the teachers and teacher trainers have autonomy over the clusters and decide what happens in each meeting.