Here's a summary of key areas to think about in relation to languages in your school. Where are you?
Use these documents to focus on key areas, prioritise next steps & find relevant support. They highlight a few areas to consider (eg. leadership, curriculum etc) and show criteria for different categories of just starting, getting there and got it. This hopefully gives you a chance to traffic light your progress at a glance. Your school may be different colours for different areas. The Support section signposts and hyperlinks to relevant websites.
If you want to create your own version of these documents here is a template for Primary & Secondary. NB You need to sign into CANVA to access this (it's free to have an account).
1+2 Languages Self Evaluation Primary.pdf
Primary
1+2 Languages Secondary Self Evaluation.pdf
Secondary
Reflective Questions - A Closer Look
This presentation from Aberdeenshire Authority which has some useful questions to help structure discussions when evaluating progress in Languages and deciding next steps within schools. It signposts resources within the Aberdeenshire Primary Languages Portal which is available to all staff via Glow logins, and Northern Alliance resources which are publicly available with no logins necessary.
Input from HMIe
Reflect, Evaluate, Feedback & Improve - Click here for a presentation from the LANGS meeting in March 2023 given by John Paul Cassidy, lead for Classical & Modern Languages. A great overview of expectations. Don't forget you can always look at school inspection reports & see what is said about Languages.
Self Evaluation Toolkit - A Deeper Dive
Take a look at this fantastic resource developed by authorities in South-East Scotland for help with self-evaluating where you are with teaching languages in primary & secondary in your classroom, school or ASG. It brings together the key messages from theory & academic research with classroom practice. It also has very helpful How am I doing? documents to downloadfor you to record your thoughts. Click here for a summary of the website.
Developing a Policy & School Improvement Planning
SCILT have some resources and examples to support you with this.