Setting up a new EAL department in an international school (Webinar)
- Date
- 10 June 2025
- Time
- 11:00am
- Price
- Free
- Type
- Webinar
- Location
- Online
EAL and SEND in International Schools: an Effective Whole-School Approach (Webinar)
This webinar explores how international schools can provide effective SEND support to EAL learners using our EAL and SEND resources.
This webinar will make recommendations for ensuring that EAL learners who have special education needs and disabilities (SEND) are offered effective support. We will look at how provision can be evaluated and organised across the whole school and how EAL and SEND support staff can work together effectively. We will also introduce useful tools to help schools with assessing and identifying SEND in multilingual settings.
Participants may want to familiarise themselves with The Bell Foundation’s EAL and SEND guidance before the webinar.
Areas of focus will include:
- Auditing your school’s existing practice.
- Admission and language assessments.
- Guidance for families.
- Identifying SEND in learners using EAL.
- Promoting collaboration between EAL and SEND staff.
Who should register for the webinar
- EAL coordinators;
- SEND coordinators;
- Heads of year;
- School leaders;
- Anyone with responsibility for EAL and SEND support
Please note: this webinar is for international participants only. Please click here to view our upcoming webinars and online courses for those living and working in the UK.
Why you should register for the webinar
- To get ideas for how to organise and coordinate effective EAL and SEND provision.
- To learn more about how you can use The Bell Foundation’s EAL and SEND resources in your context.
- To ensure EAL learners with SEND are supported to achieve their potential.
- To access session recording.
- To be first to hear about future webinars and how to sign up.
If you have any questions that specifically relate to the webinar topic which you would like answered during the live session, please send them to: webinar@bell-foundation.org.uk
If the webinar is full, please complete the Wait List form during the booking process on Eventbrite and you will be contacted if a place becomes available. Everyone on the Wait List will be sent a copy of the webinar recording.
Ticket sales close 2 April 2025 9:00 UK time (UTC+1).
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Your speaker, Tom Beakes
Tom Beakes joined The Bell Foundation in 2020. Tom has worked in language education since 2003 and has taught in China, Japan, Ecuador and north Africa. His main areas of interest are international education and teacher development. He holds an MA in anthropological linguistics and is CELTA and DELTA qualified. He has worked as a teacher trainer in the UK and abroad and is a regular speaker and presenter at EAL events.