Hallam Festival of Education
On 14 and 15 June, over 1000 people attended the first ever Sheffield Hallam Festival of Education. The two day event was a huge success and was a great opportunity for people from education related fields to come together to discuss, learn, share best practice and hear from some inspiring speakers.
If you were unable to attend the event, you can watch the main debate sessions from each day: Friday and Saturday
The festival included an extensive range of speakers, music, debates and even a lego workshop!
Cross-Curricular Language Learning (CLIL) conference
On Friday 21- Saturday 22 June, the Sheffield Institute of Education hosted the international conference on Cross-Curricular Language Learning (CLIL).
In attendance were some of the top language teaching specialists and researchers from 15 countries around the world, who met to discuss the benefits of this method of teaching and how to implement it.
Dr Kim Bower, principal lecturer and subject knowledge enhancement lead, said:
“We are trying to put language learning on the map in Sheffield. Learning languages in the UK is difficult and we want to make language teaching more relevant and interesting, if students are motivated to learn their results will be better.
This method is proven to work in England- having to concentrate enhances listening skills and the ability to solve problems through increased cognitive challenge enables students to achieve higher grades across the curriculum. This pedagogy has been show to increase intercultural awareness, motivation and attainment.”
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