Friday 14 October 2011

Workshop in Kalmar on the New Grading System under Lgr11

 We're running a workshop here in Kalmar about the grading system in the new Lgr11 system on 1st November, from 6.30 pm to about 8.30 pm. We'll be in Room E312 in the Nisbethska Building, Linnégatan 5 in Kalmar (just off Esplanaden - turn off when you come to Ekelunds Konditori and it's the big, old building which used to be a girls' school!).

The workshop will be led by Dr Chris Allen, who's the main contact person for Language Didactics here at Linnaeus University's Kalmar campus. I'll be present too to participate in the discussions.

If you're interested in following what goes on, we'll be broadcasting live from E312 on Adobe Connect. Click on this link to join us on 1st November:

https://connect.sunet.se/engelskalgr11/


It may not be possible, by the way, for participants via Connect to speak to the hall directly, but I'll be keeping an eye on the Chat window and relaying comments on it to and from the hall.

If you're unable to participate on 1st November, you'll be welcome to watch the recording afterwards. You're welcome to continue the discussion by commenting on this post on the blog.

The agenda for the meeting on 1st November is to look at the Council of Europe Grading System and to use it to grade some pupils via recordings which have been made on behalf of the Council of Europe. The main aim is focus our attention on the thinking behind the CoE's grading system and to discuss how it can be applied to pupils in the real world!

We may organise further workshops in the spring, where we'll be continuing the examination and discussion of the Council of Europe's grades, with particular focus on written performance and on specific examples from Swedish schools.

For anyone reading this who isn't familiar with what's happening in Sweden, Lgr11 is the new school syllabus in Sweden, which was brought into effect on 1st July 2011. In the subject of Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) they've decided to use the Council of Europe's grading system, CEFR, as the yardstick against which the performance of Swedish pupils in MFL will be measured, so Swedish language teachers need to find out about CEFR …

David Richardson
Linnaeus University
SOL
Kalmar

What's happening with this blog …

This blog's got a bit big now! I'm going to keep it open as a repository for all the brilliant ideas my students have had so far, but the new courses are now using this blogs:

http://ictinenglishteachinggroup1.blogspot.com/

http://ictinenglishteachinggroup2.blogspot.com/

http://ictinenglishteachinggroup3.blogspot.com/

http://ictinenglishteachinggroup4.blogspot.com/

http://ictinenglishteachinggroup5.blogspot.com/

These groups are only just getting started, so there won't be much there for a couple of weeks.

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Apart from that, I'll continue using this blog for special occasions, one of which is coming up on 1st November (see above).