This course will supply you with the tools you need start to become an outstanding Language practitioner, with a secure understanding of effective pedagogies in MFL teaching. The course covers the core skills associated with teaching a foreign language in secondary education – from developing your understanding of what makes a good language lesson, to learning how to support students to develop as confident and independent linguists.

You will learn how to equip students with the key skills they need to become inquisitive linguists beyond the classroom.  Training to be an MFL teacher, you will examine the best contemporary research about effective language teaching, and learn to apply this in your own practice. The course will focus on key curriculum skills such as the teaching of vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation at the different key stages.

You will learn how to create the right environment in your classroom for effective language learning such as the use the target language, and the different strategies to help students memorise foreign vocabulary accurately. We will examine the wider issues of cultural capital, how to create a “need for learning” to enhance motivation in MFL.

The three most commonly taught languages in our schools are French, German and Spanish. We also have schools that teach Mandarin.

Bishop Challoner Training School, in partnership with Alliance schools (BCTSA), is an accredited provider of school-based teacher training in Birmingham and across the West Midlands.

You will be in school 4 days a week where you will be fully involved in all aspects of a teacher’s work. One day a week you will have your pedagogical  training, which will provide a mixture of specific Subject Studies and more general Professional Studies sessions.

To enrich your professional practice and develop your expertise you will complete 2 PGCE assignments, which will contribute 60 credits towards a Master’s degree.

You will be in your school from day one.  At the beginning of the year you will observe expert practitioners, moving towards leading small parts of a lesson and gradually building up to teach whole lessons. You will receive the support of school-based mentors, as well as members of the BCTSA Central Team and Subject Tutors.