WHAT WE DO
Global Community Schools
1. Online teacher training at EALtraining.com: Adapting Your Curriculum for EAL learners
2. High-Impact Primary EAL Coordinators to Transform your School
One day a week for a term
Two days a week for a half term
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Achieve clear Goals and Long-term Transformation.
Empower teachers, Engage Parents and Motivate Children
All Aspects of Primary EAL:
Academic Language Acquisition
Advanced EAL Learners
New to English
Previously Unschooled Learners
Multiculturalism...
We work closely with key staff to build a long-term, sustainable approach to all aspects of EAL teaching
Specifically designed to minimise class-teacher workload
CPD, online training, software training, direct intervention, resources...
Contact Us to select one of our recommended packages, or put together a package to suit your school's priorities and resources.
Including....
Celebrating Diversity:
Engaging parents in their children's Education
(Online training supported with resources and key staff CPD)
Crucial to Educational Achievement is the Engagement of Parents:
Right from Early Years and Foundation Stage, begin to engage parents in school life by requesting just one or two words per half term in their first language. A simple illustrated letter is followed by a quick display of responses and otherwise reticent children take pride in expertly pronouncing their language for everyone to learn.
Further on through the school, children can discuss their work at home and bring in responses written in their first language or scribed by their parents.
Teaching and Collaborative Learning to achieve impact on Academic Progress
(An Activity-Based Direct CPD Session)
Assessment, Monitoring and Strategies:
We recommend the Nottingham Framework for Language Stages, based on QCA guidance. It enables efficient, simple assessment and next-step planning with helpful strategies.
This training includes:
Understanding common errors and what to teach:
Scaffolding for accurate Language Acquisition:
Scaffolding templates, drills and activities to avoid common errors in EAL learning
(Software training for specialist and classroom teachers with supplied resources)
Children Teaching Children
The Language Project
(Whole or key staff CPD plus resources)
Children celebrating the languages and cultures in their Global Community School, every day.
For six weeks, your first-language speaking children teach two children from each class at a weekly club. They return and teach their class for approximately 5 minutes. Through practical application, children are empowered by leading, sharing languages, cultures and finding common ground.
With a class trophy at stake, and the chance to choose the next language, the excitement grows for the final meeting, when the class representatives play an inter-class bingo competition. Facilitated and organised centrally by one member of your team, driven by the children, this scheme has a whole school impact with minimal demands on class teachers. Keep parents informed to complete the whole school impact.
Engaging Parents
Multilingual Signs
(Key Staff CPD and Direct Intervention)
Developed in association with the families of your school's global community to welcome and support each other.
Choose the areas of your school to be signposted and explain to the children how their families can help. Then send an illustrated letter to all your families requesting translations into their first languages. The signs are edited and produced in the colours of your school and displayed for families to check, adjust and agree before the signs are professionally printed, mounted and displayed around the school. Celebrate their arrival at your next school event!
