SECURING SUCCESS FOR EAL STUDENTS IN THE MAINSTREAM CLASSROOM
ABOUT THIS COURSE
UNLOCKING THE POTENTIAL OF EAL STUDENTS
Duration: 2 days
Throughout international schools around the world, student cohorts are becoming increasingly diverse. We want our students from a dizzying variety of cultural, pedagogical, and linguistic backgrounds to access curriculum aims and objectives with the same fluency and aspiration as native language proficient students. Not only is this possible, but there now exists a wealth of dependable strategies and materials to confidently secure such success.
This course is based firmly on approaches, techniques, theories, and cases studies that have created real results in actual classrooms around the world. Outstanding materials, activities, and practical tips and tricks will ensure that you can return to your students with a clear set of principles and practices on which to enhance the learning outcomes for all your students.
AWARD-WINNING COURSE DESIGNER
This course is designed by the ex-Head of the English Faculty at Harrow International School, Bangkok, who was entrusted with the creation of the provision for teaching EAL students and developing strategies to support the teaching of EAL students in the mainstream. His research-led and practitioner/learner-focused approaches were such a success that they received various international accolades including awards from Cambridge International Examinations.
In six years of leading the English Faculty, students on his courses achieved four ‘Top in Thailand’ awards (with well over 100 international schools in Thailand serving a predominantly EAL cohort) and three ‘Best in the World’ awards for their successes.
This unique programme is an absolute must for those wishing to improve the academic achievement of their EAL pupils, within an English speaking exam system.
COURSE OUTCOMES
- Gain a greater understanding of the unique challenges that face EAL learners in the mainstream
- Aquire new materials and approaches that have secured proven success for EAL students around the world
- Find out how to create more meaningful links between literacy and linguistic development
- Enhance your ability to use technology effectively to improve learning for EAL students
- Learn about whole school approaches to support the learning of EAL students
COURSE OUTLINES
DAY 1 SESSION 1: CREATING ASPIRATIONAL EXPECTATIONS
- Knowing what defines, not what confines, an EAL student
- Drawing positively on culture, language, and identity
- Stretch from the start: establishing clear goals for EAL students
DAY 1, SESSION 2: BUILDING BLOCKS OF LANGUAGE
- Register, genres, morphemes, and other technical terminology for teachers
- Lexical density, reading age, scaffolding
- Creating L1 and L2 synergy for EAL students
DAY 1, SESSION 3:ADAPTING TEACHER STRATEGIES TO SECURE SUCCESS
- Enhancing oral literacy: writing for speech, and speaking to write
- Improving questioning, speaking, and responses
- All kinds of text for all kinds of students
DAY 2, SESSION 4: ASSESSMENT AND FACILITATION
- Assessing student level and charting progress
- Making the most out of Teaching Assistants and Language Support staff
- Pre-, Mid-, and Post-strategies for support
DAY 2, SESSION 5: CONTRADICTIONS IN THE EAL CLASSROOM
- EAL and AGT: Stretching talented EAL Learners
- Struggling with first language, succeeding in literature
- Accepting errors: making meaning and centralising context
DAY 2, SESSION 6: BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER: INSIDE AND ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
- EAL teachers in every classroom and every subject
- Staff Skills Audit: own, department, faculty, and whole school
- Personalised Pathway Planning and key takeaways
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