Teacher day at Oxford, October 2014

• When: Saturday 4 October 2014: 2 pm to 5 pm.
• Where: Somerville College, Oxford
• For whom: Teachers with any amount of experience of running the UKLO competition in their schools from years to zero. List of participants, both teachers and UKLO members
• Why: Two aims:
  • To share ideas about running the olympiad, e.g.
    • recruiting students
    • running a linguistics club
    • integrating olympiad materials in ordinary teaching.
  • To share  materials and ideas that UKLO have been working on:
    • Test materials suitable for the new Breakthrough level
    • Expanded versions of past problems with extended commentary and ‘taking it further’ suggestions.

What the presenters said.

1. The UK Linguistics Olympiad ‘on the ground’

• a chance to share your own experience/plans
• what about running a Linguistics Club?
• integrating Olympiad materials in ordinary teaching

Presentations by:

• Neil Sheldon: How to run UKLO in your school
• Catherine Sheard: Running Linguistics Clubs: Who, What, Where, When, Why?
• Babette Newsome: Integrating Olympiad materials in ordinary teaching

2.   Road-testing some new resources from UKLO

• materials to support introduction of the new Breakthrough level
• extending learning from Intermediate level questions
• discussion of materials (scope/format)

Presentations by:

• Sarah Campbell: Breakthrough workout
• Graeme Trousdale and Sam Hellmuth: Extending learning from an Intermediate level UKLO question