David Shanks

David Shanks has been teaching French in a range of inner-city contexts for the past 14 years. He works for Harris Federation, teaching French, supporting language departments and delivering training. Before completing his PGCE in French and EAL with the UCL Institute of Education, David taught in Norway and worked as a language assistant in France. His interests lie in assessment, creativity, use of technology, teacher development and the Association for Language Learning. His MA in education with King’s College London included a dissertation on technology-facilitated oral homework, a summary of which was published in the 2021 Innovative Language Pedagogy Report.