TRAINING FOR SCHOOL TEACHERS
Our Training programmes for school teachers can help your teaching staff learn how to manage non native English speaking students in the their classrooms.
These programmes are suitable for all teachers who teach subject lessons in classes which include pupils with EAL needs.
DURING THE PROGRAMME YOUR TEACHERS WILL LEARN:
- How to assess the English language needs of their non native English speaking pupils.
- How to assess the subject knowledge of their non native English speaking pupils.
- How to grade their use of English in the classroom in order to make learning accessible to their non native English speaking pupils.
- What techniques and methodology teachers can use during their lessons in order to make learning accessible to their non native English speaking pupils.
- What resources and material teachers can access and use to enhance the subject learning of their non native English speaking pupils.
- How to monitor the subject learner development and attainment of their non native English speaking pupils.
- How to prepare their non native English speaking pupils to sit national and international subject examinations.
- What internationally recognised qualifications their non native English speaking pupils can gain to prove their English Language Competence.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE HOUSE WILL:
- Assess your teachers knowledge and skills in teaching their subject to non native English speaking pupils.
- Develop and run a programme for your teachers to help them enhance the subject learning of their non native English speaking pupils.
- Run the programme at a location of your choice.
- Deliver the programme on days and/or times that are most suitable for your teachers.
- Deliver the programme in a mode most suitable for your teachers.
WHY TO BOOK THIS PROGRAMME FOR YOUR SUBJECT TEACHERS:
Schools may have a number of non native English speaking pupils they teach.
Subject teachers who teach pupils whose first language is not English will often face a number of challenges.
Some pupils in subject classes may not have the English language ability required to cope with the subject taught or to do well in exams. Teachers want to help but sometimes this is difficult to do if they don't know how to teach non native English speakers who have limited English language skills.
It requires teachers to adjust their methodology to ensure that their non-native English speaking pupils can understand the content of lessons taught in each class. Teachers cannot simply 'transmit' content and assume that all pupils will understand.
They would need to think of other means which would work such as group work, graded tasks, etc to increase a skill-based focus of learning. They may need to source and/or adapt educational material (textbooks, coursebooks, handouts, worksheet etc) that can also support this approach. Pupils would be required to learn language that is more clearly focused on, and related to, the subject matter that they are studying eg maths, physics, chemistry etc
Subject teachers who teach pupils whose first language is not English will often face a number of challenges.
- The language subject teachers use to teach a class may be too difficult for the non native English speaking pupils to understand.
- The subject knowledge that the non native English speaking pupils in the class may be of a much higher or a much lower level than that of the rest of the pupils, but teachers will find this difficult to assess because their non native English speaking pupils may have very limited knowledge of English and be unable to communicate what they know.
- The non native English speaking pupils in a class may quickly fall behind, not because they don't understand the subject taught but because they don't have sufficiently good English to be able to follow what is being taught during the lesson.
- The non native English speaking pupils may know a subject very well but fail to achieve good grades in tests and exams because their English is too inaccurate to answer the questions in such a way so that they can score the best possible marts.
Some pupils in subject classes may not have the English language ability required to cope with the subject taught or to do well in exams. Teachers want to help but sometimes this is difficult to do if they don't know how to teach non native English speakers who have limited English language skills.
It requires teachers to adjust their methodology to ensure that their non-native English speaking pupils can understand the content of lessons taught in each class. Teachers cannot simply 'transmit' content and assume that all pupils will understand.
They would need to think of other means which would work such as group work, graded tasks, etc to increase a skill-based focus of learning. They may need to source and/or adapt educational material (textbooks, coursebooks, handouts, worksheet etc) that can also support this approach. Pupils would be required to learn language that is more clearly focused on, and related to, the subject matter that they are studying eg maths, physics, chemistry etc
The programme we offer will show teachers how to target the needs of non native English speaking pupils in their classrooms.
It will provide teachers with the knowledge and skills they need in order to:
It will provide teachers with the knowledge and skills they need in order to:
- Enable pupils to better understand the content of their lessons
- Grade the English they use in their classrooms so that non native English speaking pupils can follow lessons more easily.
- Help teachers reduce their personal Teacher Talking Time and increase student participation of their non native English speaking pupils in class.
- Gain experience of now to teach reading and writing skills relevant to their subject area to non native English speaking pupils.
- Adapt published materials to make these more accessible for non native English speaking pupils.
- Develop their own subject focused material to help non native English speaking pupils better participate and learn from the lessons taught in the classroom.
- Help their non native English speaking pupils learn contextualised language items
- Help their non native English speaking pupils learn language that is functionally necessary in the classroom
- Answer any question they may have about how best to deal with teaching their subject area to make this more accessible to the non native English speaking pupils in their class.
- Answer any question they may have about how best to deal with learner assessment and progress of their non native English speaking pupils in the subject area they are teaching.
- Answer any question they may have about how best to deal with the assessment and progress of the English Language Skills that their non native English speaking pupils will need in order to achieve the best possible grades in their subject exams.
