Teacher day October 2014
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.
- To share ideas about running the olympiad, e.g.
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