Contribution to Moving Towards the College Vision

The Modern Languages Curriculum Area is meeting the challenges created by Tollbar’s Business, Enterprise and Humanities status. The Curriculum Area will continue to ensure that all classes and staff have access to interactive whiteboards and Language Laboratories through a rota system. New ideas and good practice are shared in Curriculum Area Meetings. A bank of teaching materials is available on the student shared drive, and evaluation of ICT resources takes place on an ongoing basis. Links with local business included a staff day in industry in December 2003, when all members of the Curriculum Area went to a local manufacturer of mobile homes and talked to production and management staff before meeting to brainstorm, ideas discuss how to incorporate them into Curriculum Area Schemes of Work.

All Schemes of Work topics have been reviewed to highlight opportunities where Business and Economic themes occur and these are further developed when new opportunities arise. The Curriculum Area aims to work closely with the Business, Enterprise and Humanities Curriculum Areas to help deliver those parts of the curriculum where overlaps occur, for example in export.

Curriculum Area members help ensure that students have a clear understanding of what Business and Enterprise college education means by supporting the ethos of the College and by helping students to develop an understanding of the diversity of the European market place, and the importance of languages within it.