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Reduce planning time, inspire students & invigorate your teaching with tools and resources for ⭐ Modern Foreign Languages | Geography | Mandarin | Science ⭐

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The problem? Teachers are wasting time grading and searching for authentic, level-appropriate content when they could be using that time to focus on the thing that matters most - teaching!

The solution? This is School 😎

Explore how we help 👇🏽
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"Hearing from a student who is just like them gives students an opportunity to open discussions with their teachers and class...building confidence in articulating themselves." 🤯

Discover why authentic content changes the education game right here 👇🏽 https://t.co/4b0qbkcOtc

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"Language changes. Languages are brilliantly alive. Within communities we especially love incubating new terms that are ours and ours alone, which signify to each other that we are part of the same group." via @sophiasgaler 👏🏽 https://t.co/bHG1MwAZ9X

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"Hearing from a student who is just like them gives students an opportunity to open discussions with their teachers and class...building confidence in articulating themselves." 🤯

Discover why authentic content changes the education game right here 👇🏽 https://t.co/3yU2f9ObC1

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"The significance of #geography goes beyond the borders of the classroom, having knowledge of geography enables a person to be more socially aware [...] and possess a strong sense of direction and current events of the world." via @VnhsMirror 🌍 https://t.co/g5aO9fFndv

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What is the main challenge you're facing in your classroom at the moment, #edchat?

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"It's a really good idea to get confident just with a pen, a whiteboard & a few ideas that you can pull out of the bag." 💡

Discover a whole host of Low Effort, High Impact ideas with @LeoLanguages - and don't forget to add your own ideas too 👇🏽 https://t.co/gFBhWRp22Y

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What has been the most inspiring moment in your classroom recently, #edchat?

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What's the number one piece of advice you'd give to any student undergoing exams at the moment #edchat?

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"What Pellegrino found is that, essentially, all languages convey information at roughly the same speed when all the factors are taken into account: around 39 bits per second." via @atlasobscura 😲 https://t.co/G5oLDnzUPt

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Send this to a teacher who inspires you every day 🫶🏽

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"There is no evidence that British young people have an inability to learn foreign languages. However, there is evidence to suggest that the UK is a climate that’s inhospitable to language learning." via @DrAParrish for @ConversationUK 💡 https://t.co/CRkxlLciw6

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What are the quotes that keep you going?
That remind you of why you do what you do?

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"Unravelling language is always fun. You understand a little more about the world around you every time, even if it's just a very small piece." via @UniLeidenNews 💡 https://t.co/ZgaYjDs8RC

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This linguist-run survey found 700 languages and counting in New York alone, making it the most linguistically diverse city on record. via @TIME 😲 https://t.co/6GIlUjqYVc

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"No language, be it majhen (“small”) or gigantic, has any intrinsic value; its value is bestowed upon it only by its speakers who, perhaps, call those languages a home or, as it is with me, a love." via @guardian 🗨️
https://t.co/OfFjriBxJO

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Things you didn't know This is School could do, part 3048:

Make Star Wars part of your French lessons 😎

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Watch back 👉🏽 Languages for All? The Push and Pull of Policy, with @DrAParrish. Exploring how education policy, including EBacc and P8, has impacted language learning in schools across the UK. https://t.co/UoKZOSdE7I

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This series of blogs about dictation from @MissWozniak regularly top our monthly most read! If you've not explored them, there's no time like the present⌚

What We Know: https://t.co/mmkZzO9QSP
The Advantages: https://t.co/Z2dsm8PHAD
Ways to Practice: https://t.co/RsDnQjt0ZY

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We’re celebrating #TellAStoryDay!

Once upon a time,
back when George was a teacher, he let his French students loose in Paris.
He gave them one instruction: go chat with the locals.
And they tried.

But they struggled. Read more here:https://t.co/bvi6Mcwd4c

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Happy St George’s Day! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Today *our* George is taming dragons in efforts to make classrooms more human, bringing lessons to life! Learning can be a fiery adventure after all 🔥