Crista Hazell

Speaker Summary

Crista Hazell is an MFL specialist with many years’ experience both in the classroom and in positions of leadership. She has worked across the UK and internationally – from Belgium and Cyprus to Slovenia and Ghana – with students, teachers and school leaders in developing teaching, learning, relationships and behaviour. Her creativity and energy for bringing the teaching of MFL alive for students during her time in the classroom was matched by her high expectations and willingness to take on board ‘that difficult class’ – all without losing sight of the children and young people in her care.

Areas of Expertise

Languages – Leadership and Management – Teaching and Learning

Full Profile

For Crista, getting the teaching right is about connecting with students at an honest, caring and fundamental level that puts ‘unconditional positive regard’ front and centre at all times.

With more than 20 years’ experience at classroom, middle and senior leadership level across a number of schools and with a particular passion for Modern Foreign Languages, Crista is an educator whose heart is very much in the classroom. And by heart, we mean heart and soul.

Although she is an experienced head of department, pastoral leader, pedagogical and pastoral champion, development manager for the Association for Language Learning and one of the ‘Top 100 people to follow on Twitter’, she is also is an outstanding classroom practitioner and trainer when it comes to the teaching of Modern Foreign Languages.

Publications
  • Independent Thinking on MFL

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