The resource consists of four presentations: Part 1 - Language Awareness in the Higher Education Context Part 2 - Group Profiling Part 3 - Bilingualising a lecture or seminar Part 4 - Resources to support bilingual teaching Aims of the workshop: An introduction to language awareness in education, in the context of higher education. Develop an understanding of the importance of student profiling and how this information can be used to plan lectures and seminars. An introduction to a variety of practical techniques to bilingualize lectures and seminars and enhance students' language experience in English lessons. To share useful resources to support trainees/teachers to embed Welsh within lectures and seminars. Content: An update on national policies with regards to the Welsh language in Higher Education. An overview of the benefits of profiling students' language skills (ability, use and aspects of Welsh) and how trainees can use this knowledge to plan their teaching and create opportunities for students to use and develop their Welsh. Various and practical techniques for bilingual lectures and seminars. Advice on including Welsh key terms in English lectures. Overview of useful resources to support trainees to embed Welsh within lectures and seminars (e.g. Y Termiadur Addysg, Ap Geiriaduron, Cysgliad). At the end of this workshop trainees should be able to: Demonstrate an understanding of language awareness within higher education and its impact on students' decisions to consider submitting work through the medium of Welsh. Be aware of the importance of profiling students language skills, and develop strategies to gather information about students individual language profiles, so that this information can be used to plan lectures and seminars. Use a range of strategies to bilingualize lectures and seminars. Use a range of resources to embed Welsh within lectures and seminars. Presenters: Helen Humphreys, Sgiliaith As a mentor and trainer for bilingualism and Welsh in Further Education and Work Based Learning, my role enables me to inspire, share ideas, resources and good practice within these sectors. Having been a fully bilingual lecturer at Coleg Sir Gâr, I gained additional responsibility within the college as a Staff Learning Mentor for the Welsh Language. This role has been an opportunity to share good practice with college staff, monitor and develop their skills within the classroom before becoming a part time and then full time member of Sgiliaith in 2017. Sioned Williams, Sgiliaith Sioned Williams is a Professional Development Mentor and Trainer for Sgiliaith. Her core work is to provide staff training, support, advice and resources, and to share good practice in bilingualism and embedding the Welsh language with lecturers, tutors and assessors in the further education and work-based learning sector, with the aim of enhancing learners’ bilingual skills and experiences.
Language awareness and bilingualism in teaching
Public Services Level 2 Resources
This collection consists of 30 blended learning sessions for learners studying Public Services courses at Level 2. The units can be viewed in your browser by following the links below. Colleges can download a zip file containing SCORM files for all 30 units to place within their local virtual learning platforms. These sessions are bilingual, the English slides can be used as reference, but the questions can only be answered in Welsh. Copyright Heart of Worcestershire College on behalf of the Blended Learning Consortium and Y Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol. These resources are for use only in educational organisations and must not be modified or resold.
Golwg ar Gelf art exhibition
'Golwg ar Gelf' (A look at art) is an experimental virtual exhibition which gives Welsh medium students, studying across the fields of Art and Design, to share their work.
Learning parts of the body in Welsh
A short interactive activity to learn parts of the body in Welsh. Plural terms are also introduced.
Animal Care Resourse
This interactive resource is designed to provide information on the basic skills and knowledge needed to care appropriately for a wide range of animals. The content is divided into a series of units focusing on different groups of animals. The units emphasise the needs of species within a range of categories. As a whole, this short course introduces key aspects of how to care for an animal, and shows how to use the necessary skills and knowledge to maintain the animal's health and welfare.
Tutoring and Mentoring: tutor and student journey
The aims of this workshop are to: • Understand who the personal tutor is? • Introduce some of the key principles of personal tutoring • Consider the support available to personal tutors at local (e.g. school / department) and institutional level Contents: Personal tutoring is central to student experiences and personal tutoring programs offer students opportunities to receive guidance, advice and support on all kinds of things during their academic journey at university. Each individual's journey is different and personal tutoring programs are expected to meet the needs of different types of students as well as respond to institutional processes and procedures. This workshop offers an opportunity to consider some of the key underlying principles in the role of the personal tutor with reference to some expectations and practical steps that the tutor can apply to their role. At the end of this workshop trainees should be able to: • Define some of the main features in the role of a personal tutor • Identify what personal tutors need to consider when tutoring • Consider ways to support students in different situations and contexts • Consider ways to tailor a tutoring sessions to meet the needs of the student • Consider the importance of networking and partnering with students to develop effective tutoring approaches • Consider ways in which students can contribute to the tutoring process • Identify what is available to support personal tutors Presenter: Dr Angharad Naylor Dr Angharad Naylor is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Welsh, Cardiff University. She is the Director of Teaching and Learning and a Senior Personal Tutor.
Using Panopto recording software
This series explains how to use Panopto software, including how to record, edit, and share video clips with others and how to use Panopto for assessment. This resource includes: 1. Introduction A short video presentation explaining what Panopto recording software is and what it is used for. 2. Get started: Download the Panopto recorder How to download the Panopto recorder for Windows 3. Preparing your Blackboard site How to prepare your Blackboard site for Panopto (original and ultra course) 4. Create your first recording How to go about recording 5. Simple editing How to go about editing the beginning and end of a recording and removing part of the middle of a recording 6. Copy a recording from one folder to another How to copy a recording from one Panopto folder to another 7. Move a recording from one folder to another How to move a recording from one folder to another 8. Subtitles How to edit or delete subtitles 9. Setting the recording within a module structure How to install a link to a Panopto recording within Blackboard (site in original view) 10. Setting the recording within a module structure How to install a link to a Panopto recording within Blackboard (Ultra site) 11. Panopto for assessment: Creating an assignment folder How to create an assignment folder within your Blackboard site to enable students to submit work in video format 12. Uploading a video to the assignments folder Video for students on how to upload a file to the assignment folder 13. Setting a quiz within your recording Creating and installing quizzes within a recording - see the Sway Document 14. Sharing a recording with others How to share your video with others and viewing rights Presenter: Bethan Wyn Jones Bethan Wyn Jones is a Senior Learning Technologist at Bangor University and is also on a part-time secondment with the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol as an e-learning technologist. She has over 18 years experience working in the field of e-learning and specifically on the use of learning technology to promote Welsh medium provision within Higher Education.
Health and Social Care bilingual vocabulary posters
This collection is a series of posters containing key bilingual vocabulary to support the Health and Social Care: Core Level 2 course. The vocabulary is grouped to match the level of the learner's language skills. There is an individual vocabulary poster for the 7 units: Unit 1: Principles and values of health and social care (adults)) Unit 2: Principles and values of health and social care (children and young people) Unit 3: Health and well-being (adults) Unit 4: Health and well-being (children and young people) Unit 5: Professional practice as a health and social care worker Unit 6: Safeguarding individuals Unit 7: Health and safety in health and social care
Childcare and the Early Years - bilingual vocabulary posters
Here is a set of posters that include key bilingual vocabulary to support the delivery of the Level 2 Children's Care, Play, Learning and Development: Core course. There is a posters for each of the individual units: Principles and Values of Children’s Care, Play, Learning and Development (0-19 years of age) Health, Well-Being, Learning and Development Professional Practice as an Early Years and Childcare Worker Safeguarding Children Health and Safety in Children’s Care, Play, Learning and Development
E-lyfr Cyflwyniad i Farchnata (Introduction to Marketing E-book)
Cyflwyniad i Farchnata is the first ever Welsh medium marketing texbook. It is designed to help students studying Business, Management, Communications and Marketing at college or university, as well as for practical use by communications and marketing practitioners in business, voluntary and public sector organizations. It contains many interactive and multitouch elements that can be used on computers, tablets and smartphones.
Farm Animal Health
This resource was developed to introduce different topics relating to farm animal health. The resource contains a collection of videos, interactive activities and presentations in Pdf/Word format. There are also teacher notes to accompany the different subjects. Over 20 different topics are presented including: The causes of ill health in farm animals Farm health planning and biosecurity Lameness in cattle and sheep Injecting Pneumonia in cattle and sheep Dosing Castration
Sgiliaith: Bilingual Teaching posters
Here is a series of posters by Sgiliaith that offer ideas on how you can start to use and introduce the Welsh language in your lessons. The posters are suitable for tutors and work based learning assessors, but would also be useful for teachers that are interested in incorporating more Welsh into their lessons. The poster series includes keywords on the following: Greetings Feedback Simple questions Bilingual Glossary for Tutors and Work based Learning Assessors The Advantages of Bilingualism Creating a Welsh Ethos in the Classroom Useful Resources Begin to Bilingualise an Online Lesson
