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New Language Driven Pedagogy CPD

The University of York / Language Driven Pedagogy have launched new CPD for 2025!

Join Rachel Hawkes this autumn/winter for 4 practical sessions on boosting confidence and creativity and preparing students for the new GCSE. KS3 strategies, phonics, grammar, listening, and more...

Rachel Hawkes will be delivering a four CPD sessions, beginning in the autumn. LDP director, Rachel, is a renowned and influential speaker, a past President of the Association for Language Learning (ALL) and a former Head of Modern Languages, AST and SLE.  Co-author of several textbooks, Rachel holds both MEd and PhD 

Rachel recently led a team of resource developers in the creation of newly published KS2-KS4 resources for Oak National Academy, including fully-resourced curricula for the new French, German and Spanish GCSEs.

These CPD sessions will provide practical strategies to help teachers to approach the new GCSE with confidence.

The first two sessions will bring new ideas for teaching at Key Stage 3 to help learners of all abilities to build solid foundations of knowledge and will include suggested activities to promote creativity and confident communication.  

In January, the focus turns to preparing students for success in the new GCSE exams.  The sessions will provide effective strategies for teaching phonics, vocabulary, and grammar that support student progress and build confidence for the listening and reading exams. This includes building confidence understanding and extracting details from longer texts; using inferencing skills and tackling the dictation and the read aloud tasks.

Tuesday 18th November, 4:00-5:30pm

Refreshing KS3: building towards the new GCSE

Tuesday 25th November, 4:00-5:30pm

Making sense of sentence building: clarity, confidence, creativity

Monday 12th January, 4:00-5:30pm

Success in new GCSE part 1: speaking and writing

Monday 19th January, 4:00-5:30pm 

Success in new GCSE part 2: listening and reading

Price: £50 per session

Click here to book - LDP Professional development - Research, University of York