MFL TEACHER CLUSTERS
MFL teachers are now meeting in the following areas:
Reading/North Hampshire
Portsmouth/South Hampshire
Brighton/Sussex
Cheltenham/Gloucestershire
Oxford
South Oxfordshire
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.
If you want to get involved in one of these clusters, contact the cluster leaders directly at the appropriate email address given below:
Reading/North Hampshire: pdcinmfl@gmail.com
Portsmouth/South Hampshire: southhantsmflcluster@gmail.com
Brighton/Sussex: sussexmfl@gmail.com
Oxford: oxfordmflcluster@gmail.com
South Oxfordshire: southoxonmflcluster@gmail.com
Cheltenham/Gloucestershire: gloucsmflcluster@gmail.com
Birmingham: birminghammflcluster@gmail.com
Lincolnshire or Newcastle upon Tyne: contact Suzanne Graham s.j.graham (AT) reading (DOT) ac (DOT) uk
I would be really interested in setting up a cluster in the Harrow/Brent area.