Professional Values & Personal Commitment

Social Justice

  • Value all the languages that pupils use in their daily lives and all the additional languages they aspire to learn.
  • Promote the development of plurilingualism through pluriliteracies and multiculturalism
  • Be open and transparent about ‘real world’ issues which impact on languages and cultures
  • Promote the role of language and languages in learning across the curriculum
  • Foster a positive attitude towards other languages and cultures within the educational setting

Trust and Respect

  • Create a positive ethos towards language learning
  • Respect individual learners’ social, cultural, and linguistic experiences 
  • Understand the role played by language learning in promoting global citizenship and sustainability
  • Promote the cognitive, social, and cultural benefits of language learning
  • Demonstrate how language and languages can help to remove barriers to learning
  • Recognise the role language and languages play in raising attainment 

Integrity

  • Develop and maintain personal linguistic skills
  • Promote an understanding of language learning theories and how these can be used to inform appropriate language learning pedagogies
  • Understand how languages are learned in different contexts
  • Understand and develop knowledge of appropriate pedagogies associated with learning and teaching languages

 

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