Overview

Dinah Warren, a Senior Lecturer in languages education, is Module Leader of the Secondary Modern Foreign Languages PGCE course and the Primary PGCE Languages Pathway. Dinah also teaches on the MA Education Programme.

Qualifications

BA (hons) French and Theatre Studies (1985), PGCE in secondary modern foreign languages with drama (1987) Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2018) and ASPIRE Senior Fellow (2018).

Career

Dinah started her teaching career in a comprehensive school in central London, before moving on to a Head of Department role in new school in North Finchley. After moving to Devon in 2000, Dinah began teaching in a local comprehensive school, where she worked until 2012, combining this with some work on the Primary and Secondary PGCE course. She now works on the PGCE full time.

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Teaching

Dinah's teaching interests include: school-led teacher training - the use of the target language in secondary MFL classrooms  - interactive and active learning - peer and self assessment - intercultural understanding - raising the profile of MFL in primary and secondary schools - issues surrounding transition - digital and web-based learning.

Modules

2023/24

• EDUM043 - Secondary French Subject Knowledge and Pedagogy
• EDUM044 - Secondary German Subject Knowledge and Pedagogy
• EDUM051 - Secondary Spanish Subject Knowledge and Pedagogy
• EDUM052 - Secondary Professional Learning
• EMLM008 - Primary Modern Foreign Languages Specialism

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