EAL teacher

[EAL teacher @EALteach]

If you work on #EAL in a school and leadership is not fully behind you, supporting, encouraging, enabling, then it is hard, hard work and I think you can be proud of any small achievements. Here’s to you all.

[EAL teacher @EALteach]

@dioldy86 @Miss_HVB @EALDominicB @twinkl_eal I’ve done some. One successful one in a primary simply around games and activities, sometimes child-led. There was lots of English language development through fun stuff.

[The EAL Academy @EALACADEMY]

Do you want to find out about primary schools with fantastic EAL practice? Watch the short videos at https://t.co/DYox0OsC96. @EqualiTeach @EALOxon @EALGlasgow @EALteach

[EAL teacher @EALteach]

@Penny_Ten Thanks - really clear and helpful.

[EAL teacher @EALteach]

‘knows more English than they let on’ - on a transition note about a pupil who arrived in the country new to English a few months ago. I find the attitude concerning - am determined to make sure that child will be surrounded by empathetic adults and all the support they need.

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

If news orgs wanted to, they could fire up the live blog. They could give minute-by-minute updates. They could fill the time with interviews from naval and coast guard experts. We could learn about the human stories of the people on this boat. We could be made to empathise.

[lingosia @lingosia]

My new post on #EAL Learning Postcards: "Is this normal? -encouraging #ParentalEngagement"
https://t.co/opumSMdj0z
Thank you @Jmosley_history for the original Learning Postcard idea.

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Robert Jenrick: taking action on the people’s priorities, which apparently now includes making children feel less safe & welcome.

I can barely find words to express how despicable this is & @RobertJenrick should be made to answer for it.

This craven villainy represents no one.

[EAL teacher @EALteach]

#EAL pupil labelled ‘lazy’ by a teacher without considering the challenges the child faces, which are considerable 😔

I want to say it’s ‘lazy’ not to seek answers as to what’s going on…

But I stop and reflect on what’s gone wrong here, because that all needs addressing!

[Nandhaka Pieris FCCT 🇱🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 @N4N_P]

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate, value and enjoy those languages, but a sense of loss has definitely been my companion for as long as I can remember.
Prob why I advocate so much both professionally & personally for children not losing their linguistic & cultural heritages. (2/3)

[Joanna Kolota @JKolota]

One of the most powerful analogies by Pauline Gibbons explaining why content and language teaching in our classrooms needs to happen simultaneously.

#multilingual #EAL #MLs

[EAL teacher @EALteach]

@PLSEALDep @EALDominicB @KathrynKashyap @EALACADEMY @LewishamEAL @catharineEAL @BifieldJonathan @ofsted And also a lack of understanding of what ˋEAL´means adds to these pupils not being accurately recorded. It may be a problematic label but it’s what we have.

[EAL teacher @EALteach]

@EALACADEMY @Steph__Hill @MsReedTeach @MaryAreading @RachaelTirsati2 @BifieldJonathan @LewishamEAL @PLSEALDep @Chiakachi Thank you for these interesting posts

[EAL teacher @EALteach]

@judecwrites @FunkyPedagogy @Team_English1 I’d recommend ´Transform Teaching and Learning Through Talk: The Oracy Imperative’ by @stottcrates and @amy_gaunt

[The EAL Academy @EALACADEMY]

The 2023 Schools Census data is now available. It tells us that the both the number and the proportion of EAL pupils are continuing to rise.
@PLSEALDep @rs_EAL @EALteach @BetterBilingual @FrankMonaghan @FranNantongwe

[clare @ClareFeeneyUK]

🧵Lots to digest from the @EngMediaCentre @__BAAL
symposium on Challenging Linguistic Discrimination.
@KhawlaBadwan delivered a fab keynote w/loads of important ideas about language, literacy & literacy monsters, arguing for a 'plurilithic' not 'monolithic' view of literacy. 1.

[EAL teacher @EALteach]

@ClareFeeneyUK Your talk was great 😊

[EAL teacher @EALteach]

“You’re getting smarter” said a well meaning teacher of a 11 yr old EAL pupil, referring to her progress in learning English. I winced at the word choice. “She’s smart already”, I said in the pupil’s defence, “She speaks 2 languages, for example”.
“3” corrected the pupil.
🙌

[Diane Leedham @DiLeed]

We should both collect #EAL proficiency data in England AND invest in doing that collection properly. The brief period in which it was collected nationally was characterised by an absence of central guidance, moderation or quality assurance.

[EAL teacher @EALteach]

@mumtothree33 Sure. DM?

[EAL teacher @EALteach]

This anecdote is so important when we consider phonics teaching and #EAL

[lingosia @lingosia]

This was on my to buy list for a while. I finally ordered it, prompted by @EALteach. It reminded me of a bemused Polish child sitting in the imageless phonics lesson, when she was taught: a is for ant and showed the crawling gestures up her arm. For her it would be m for mrówka.

[EAL teacher @EALteach]

@AsgardAnnie Agree so strongly with this. A daily frustration !