Working with EAL Learners: Arrival, Assessment and Achievement

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Working with EAL Learners: Arrival, Assessment and Achievement

 
Programme Overview
Topic
EAL Training
Delivery ModelFace to Face sessions
What is Included
  • Certificate of attendance.
  • Course material 
  • Refreshments and lunch (if applicable)
Cost
  • AED 1400 per delegate plus 5% VAT
  • If you would like bespoke, in-school training, please contact Aurora (aurora@infinitelearning.ae) for more information.
Deadline booking date
TBC
Date of Training
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Time (UAE) 8:30am to 3:00pm
Venue TBC
Target audience

Teachers, Teaching Assistants, Leaders responsible for EAL provision, EAL Coordinators. Suitable for primary and secondary phases.  

Aims of the course

An understanding of how best to support those learners at the early stages of learning English, from their arrival and integration to their induction, assessment and intervention. Plus a consideration of common barriers to learning and what we can reasonably expect from learners at different stages of English proficiency.  

Intended outcomes

Teachers will: 

  • Increase confidence around integrating new arrivals 
  • Gain ideas of how to create a robust and effective admissions and induction process 
  • Consideration of a flow chart to suit the needs of your school 
  • Consider common barriers to learning and what might slow progress 
  • Understand red flags for additional needs 
  • Delve into what your school currently does or might need to do 
  • Explore a range of scaffolding ideas to use in lessons 
  • Consider what effective intervention looks like 
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Beth Southern

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Beth Southern has over 15 years’ experience of working with EAL learners across both primary and secondary, independent and state sector and international schools. Previously a Head of EAL in a large inner city UK school, Beth knows what it’s like to have very high numbers of EAL learners operating at a wide range of levels. Having set up the department and taken it through a successful Ofsted inspection, Beth went on to obtain a PgDip in Teaching Bilingual Learners and an MA in Language Education. Following this she worked as a consultant for numerous councils before setting up EAL Hub Ltd to fill a gap in the market. Beth felt that there was a lack of high quality EAL/Literacy boosting resources available to schools which focused on making lessons, topics and texts more accessible to EAL learners, enabling them to remain in class as much as possible.

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Programme details:

08:45  Registration and refreshments. 
09:00  Integration and Barriers to Learning 

Reviewing the first steps to integration, preparing for new arrivals.  

Assessment, how and when should we be doing it? 

School auditing and creating an inclusive environment 

10:30  Coffee Break. 
11:00  Common Barriers to learning  

Timeframe for learning a language 

Why might progress be slow? 

Recognising the red flags of additional needs, using EAL/SEN filter questionnaires 

 

Considering the whole child 

13:00  Lunch Break. 
14:00  Strategies, activities, and ideas for supporting the achievement of EAL learners  

  • Adapting resources using writing frames, graphic organisers, substitution tables and using AI to save time 
  • Developing EAL learners as an asset for other children 
  • Using questioning techniques that promote responses from all 
  • Planning your whole school next steps and developing a timeline for the new arrival. 
15:30  Finish. 

 

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Trainer:
Beth Southern
Duration:
1 days
Sessions:
1
Language:
English