Enhance your abilities and comprehension of students who have English as an Additional Language (EAL) in educational settings through this coaching session. EAL students form a growing part of our schools' population. The workshop delves into effective teaching methods for EAL students, assessing their strengths and areas needing improvement through writing analysis. It also showcases various approaches to support new students and design intellectually stimulating lessons.
Module One: Understanding the Challenges
This module examines the language types used in schools, the language development timeline for EAL learners, and the concept of cognitive load to understand the challenges faced by EAL students. Learners will reflect on their students' EAL journey and engage in a knowledge test to reinforce understanding.
Module Two: General Principles of EAL Pedagogy
Module Two delves into key principles for teaching in an EAL context, directly linked to the challenges explored in the previous module. These principles aid in planning lessons that effectively include EAL learners.
Module Three: Developing Vocabulary
Module Three focuses on strategies to enhance learners' technical vocabulary, including general principles for supporting EAL students with vocabulary acquisition and addressing challenging words for EAL learners.
Module Four: Supporting Reading
This module highlights activities and techniques to improve reading skills for EAL learners, aiming to boost their reading proficiency and motivation to engage more with reading materials.
Module Five: Supporting Writing
Module Five presents writing support activities for EAL learners, emphasizing concepts before writing, collaboration, language features for writing and reading, forming the foundation for effective writing sequences.
Module Six: Review for Supporting and Planning
In this module, the main course ideas are reviewed to generate a list of principles and approaches for aiding EAL learners in mainstream classrooms. Learners will then use this list to reflect and create an action plan for implementing these approaches in their own classrooms.
