How can schools support EAL learners arriving from Year 9 and beyond? (Webinar)
- Date
- 13 February 2025
- Time
- 4:00pm
- Price
- Free
- Type
- Webinar
- Location
- Online
EAL in Early Years Settings: Guidance and Strategies (Webinar)
This webinar launches new guidance to support leaders and early years practitioners in developing their provision for EAL learners.
We are excited to launch brand new guidance around developing provision for learners who use English as an Additional Language (EAL) in early years settings. The webinar will be suitable for staff with responsibility for developing and overseeing early years foundation stage (EYFS) provision as well as for EAL specialists and early years practitioners. The webinar will consider a set of five principles to guide EAL pedagogy in early years settings. It will then provide an overview of how our new guidance can be used to:
- Help establish a strategy for working with multilingual children and their families;
- Support young learners using EAL to develop the levels of English proficiency needed to access the curriculum successfully;
- Support young learners using EAL to thrive and participate in all aspects of school life.
Areas of focus will include:
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An overview of the guidance;
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Suggestions on how to use it;
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Examples of case studies with learners at different stages of English language proficiency;
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Opportunities for questions.
Ahead of the webinar
To make the most of this webinar, you may wish to familiarise yourself with The Bell Foundation’s EAL Assessment Framework (primary), available free to download from www.bell-foundation.org.uk/eal-assessment-framework
Who should register for the webinar
- School staff working in early years settings, including:
- Staff with responsibility for early years settings;
- EYFS teachers;
- Teaching assistants;
- EAL coordinators.
Why you should register for this webinar
- One-hour intensive session with Q&A;
- Access to session recording;
- 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 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 Wednesday 2 October at 12:00 UK time.
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Your trainer, Karen
Karen Warwick joined The Bell Foundation in November 2020 as a trainer. She has worked as an EAL specialist teacher for local authorities and independently. Before this, Karen was a primary class teacher. Karen has an MA in Education and a CELTA qualification. Her work with the Foundation includes delivering online training, webinars and resource development.
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