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Join hundreds of MFL teachers in the TES MFL group. Find lesson ideas and inspiration, share best practice and get your questions answered by peers. This is also the place to go to debate the latest issues in MFL.

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Outstanding MFL Lesson Plan

Geekie
Member since 3-8-2005

tammyround
It's always good to look at other ideas and use it to evaluate my teaching. I take on board what everyone is saying about 'outstanding being special and we should't make it run of the mill' but I still want to make sure that my practise doesn't get stagnant.

tammyround
I don't get a chance to talk with other MFL teachers - even something as simple as catching a glimpse of a fun worksheet or game idea in the photocopier room or chat through ways of differentiating an activity down or up with someone after a touch lesson.

Networking with other teachers is a much more effective way of getting ideas to improve your teaching and planning than reading a lesson plan which, as many have said, may have worked for one individual but which may not work for someone else. You only have to read this thread http://community.tes.co.uk/forums/t/568049.aspx to realise that many of the people observing your lessons would not know "outstanding" if they saw it and that in fact there are many different opinions of what "outstanding" actually is. I too am a lone practitioner in a couple of primary schools. I have a virtual MFL department which I visit just about everyday, and that is Twitter. It's superb for brainstorming ideas and finding out new and refreshing ways of doing things. I also blog about the things that I do in my primary classrooms. I'm not saying that they are examples of excellent practice, but they're things that my classes have enjoyed and which may well spark some creativity in someone else. In these days of rarely cover etc, we have to be proactive if we want to continue to refresh and improve. It's not as easy as a single lesson plan.

Posted 20-4-2012 1:42

Geekie
Member since 3-8-2005

BrightonEarly
a really good document which describes lessons which are outstanding and beyond outstanding.

There's a new grade of "beyond outstanding"?!

Posted 20-4-2012 1:51

dominic_mcg
Member since 5-1-2010

As an expert on outstanding lessons, I have produced a list of ways to describe "beyond outstanding".

They are:

special, exceptional, phenomenal, impressive, remarkable, cool, out of this world, outstandinger, ace, and my favourite, "well good".

Managers, please feel free to throw these words around like confetti to make your colleagues feel even less motivated and more useless than ever.before.

[edited by: dominic_mcg at 11:10 (GMT 0) on 21-4-2012]

Posted 21-4-2012 11:08

Mlc1022
Member since 23-4-2012

Hi, there, I am a GTP to be, starting my training in september. I'd be grateful if you can kindly send me this document for reference, please. My email is mlc1022@hotmail.com. Many thanks MIaulin

Posted 23-4-2012 10:09

Monkey Boy
Member since 21-8-2008

Can we please stop this nonsense!

Posted 23-4-2012 21:41

falifae
Member since 26-10-2011

Hello, I am an MFL PGCE student (French) and I am interested in reading the document to make an outsatnding lesson. Would you mind to send it to me too please? It would be very helpful. Thank you. MArianne

Posted 28-4-2012 15:01

dominic_mcg
Member since 5-1-2010

I've written about this thread in my blog. http://bit.ly/J1AFyA

[edited by: dominic_mcg at 15:30 (GMT 0) on 28-4-2012]

Posted 28-4-2012 15:28

Langues30
Member since 9-3-2012

Hi,

Can someone send me the document also please.

Inbox me please

Posted 6-5-2012 20:52

ojala
Member since 8-5-2009

*bangs head against a brick wall*

Posted 7-5-2012 16:23

LucyLiu
Member since 2-10-2012

Hi I've only just seen this message. Can you also forward it to me if it's not too much bother? lucycollins01@yahoo.co.uk Thanks

Posted 3-3-2013 13:09

MissBraddle
Member since 9-7-2009

Please could you send me the document about outsanding lessons in MFL? my email is marybradley65@hotmail.com Many thanks

Posted 3-3-2013 22:36

saraimane
Member since 6-1-2012

Hello,do you mind send it to me as well?serenabarberini@yahoo.co.uk MANY THANKS

Posted 4-3-2013 19:22

sommersprossen
Member since 31-10-2007

Why not upload it as a resource?

Posted 6-3-2013 19:03

KayleighMeyrick
Member since 22-6-2012

sommersprossen
Why not upload it as a resource?

That would be great! If not would you also mind sending a copy to kayleigh_meyrick@hotmail.co.uk Feel like I need all the help I can get with an Ofsted visit looming! Thanks :)

Posted 30-4-2013 18:21

henriette
Member since 6-10-2007

KayleighMeyrick
sommersprossen
Why not upload it as a resource?
That would be great! If not would you also mind sending a copy to kayleigh_meyrick@hotmail.co.uk Feel like I need all the help I can get with an Ofsted visit looming! Thanks :)

Do you realise that this first offer was made in July 2011! What was Outstanding then is not necessarily Outstanding any more!

This is where you will find the doc you need and you need to plan your OWN lessons to suit your OWN students, not try to deliver someone else's

Posted 30-4-2013 18:39

marmot.morveux
Member since 13-3-2005

Here here Henriette....it's like a bad Monty Python sketch!

Posted 30-4-2013 20:14

Jonntyboy
Member since 11-2-2009

marmot.morveux
Here here Henriette....it's like a bad Monty Python sketch!

"Here, here." ??????

.... a very bad one.

Posted 30-4-2013 20:18

vechniistrannik
Member since 15-1-2012

If there were a surefire recipe for 'Outstanding' then we'd probably all be delivering it, but real life isn't like that. The rumours about what 'Ofsted' expect are also unproductive - there's such a sense of relief if the big 'O' give a good grade that the search immediately starts for the magic ingredient - and it's probably different every time. Suspect it's not the 'what' bu the 'how' of delivery, and alongside that, the combination of class/activity/time of day/quality of planning. Best indicator I've ever had of the 'holy grail' is not the level of exhaustion, but when the bell goes and some little soul pipes up, "Is that the end of the lesson, That went quick...." And they remember where we left off when we start the next lesson.....

Posted 2-5-2013 21:32

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