UKLO for teachers
- Try it! – an archive of problems from past competitions
- For new teachers: what is UKLO?
- For new teachers: what to do.
- For new teachers: how it works.
- For registered teachers: the current year – dates, places, results, communications
- An archive of information from previous years
- General registration of details and interest.
- Click here to register.
- Click here for a list of schools registered so far, ordered by postcode.
- and here for a map showing the schools that entered candidates, at any level, 2010 – 2012.
- Notification of Advanced entries for the current year.
- Support for teachers – publicity, practice, training
- The CUP School of the Year award
Hi! When do we need to register names for the Advanced 2013 Olympiad please?
Thanks
Liz
Hello Liz. I’ll be asking you to notify us of numbers for the Advanced level in December, but you won’t need to tell us the actual names till you send us the scripts. I may possibly ask for earlier notification of tentative numbers, depending on whether we can get a suitable system working.
Dick
I work in a 6th form college where for two years now I’ve run a Linguistics Club as an extra-curricular activity. Last year I managed to get 6 students as a result of this to enter the Linguistics Olympiad competition. However, this year (despite having a nice range of students dropping in for the Linguistics Club) the 5 students who originally said they’d like to do it, have dropped out. How can we encourage students to take part?
As we are a 6th form with a very informal ethos, we can’t make students take part in the competition. Here are some of the tactics we’ve used so far:
- posting sample puzzles on our intranet (which attracted some students);
- giving a talk on Linguistics at a series of lectures we have in college;
- colleagues in MFL promote it to their students;
- posters;
- inclusion in the college-wide extra-curricular activities network & promotion (including a “Fresher’s Fair” stall with sample puzzles).
The irony is that for the last 4 years the most popular subject to study at university for our students has been English Language, so there must be some interest in linguistics out here.
I’d love to hear how other teachers go about recruiting students.
Thank you.
Have just stumbled upon this website (and your UCL site on educational linguistics) and spent two of the most happy hours in recent memory familiarising myself with its content. I’ll be starting MFL teacher training in a grammar school later this year but, for all intents and purposes, at heart I’m a linguistician – always have been; always will be. Regrettably, I had to withdraw from my PhD studies in linguistics, but seeing someone like you, Richard, trying to bring linguistics into schools makes me very happy indeed. Language and linguistics are the two most wonderful gifts to humanity, and I’ll do everything in my power to promote an interest in linguistics and grammar amongst my future students.
I’m looking forward to coming back here (and your other websites) frequently and to exchanging ideas with other teachers and academics who share my love and passion for linguistics.
Ah, music to my ears! If we can inspire you, I’m sure you can inspire the pupils with a love of language structure. Enjoy your new career.
Dick