Making subject assessment accessible for multilingual learners (Webinar)
This webinar will explore how international schools can make curricular assessment more inclusive for plurilingual learners of English.
Accurate assessment of curricular knowledge is vital to successful learning – but this can present challenges for learners who are still developing their language skills alongside their subject knowledge. Many English-medium international schools use assessment tools designed for learners already proficient in the language of instruction, which can unintentionally affect learning outcomes when used with learners who use English as an additional language.
In this webinar, Ted Winslow (Regional Head of Multilingualism, ISP) will discuss how mainstream assessments can be made more accessible for multilingual learners and how international schools can better prepare these learners for assessment success.
Drawing on practical examples across both primary and secondary settings, this webinar is a must for anyone who is involved in the assessment of multilingual learners. The webinar will also include a Q&A.
Areas of focus will include:
- The difference between assessing content knowledge and assessing language proficiency.
- How to avoid accidentally assessing language when we mean to assess content.
- Ideas for preparing multilingual students for assessment success in medium and long-term planning.
- How EAL specialists and subject/class teachers can work together to create more effective assessments for multilingual pupils.
- Practical suggestions for designing linguistically inclusive assessments.
Who should register for the webinar:
- EAL coordinators/EAL leads;
- Mainstream and subject teachers;
- Teaching staff or middle leaders who have responsibility for curricular assessment;
- School leaders.
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 this webinar:
- Gain greater awareness of the issues to consider when assessing multilingual learners’ curricular knowledge and skills.
- Hear about real examples of effective approaches to assessing multilingual families.
- An opportunity to ask questions about specific challenges you face in assessing multilingual learners.
- Access to session recording.
- First to hear about future events 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.
Speaker biography:
Ted Winslow, Regional Head of Multilingualism, International School Partnership (ISP)
Ted is Regional Head of Multilingualism – Iberia at the International Schools Partnership (ISP), where he supports schools across the region in delivering high-quality learning for multilingual learners. He founded the EAL and multilingualism programme at the British School of Vila-Real and co-authored ISP's initial global Languages Policy, bringing a systems-level perspective to multilingual education in international school contexts.
With 15 years of teaching experience spanning the US, Argentina, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Spain, Ted has worked as a classroom teacher, ESL instructor, Cambridge ESOL examiner, and Fulbright English Teaching Fellow. An avid action-researcher, he currently oversees action research projects across ISP schools internationally and brings a practitioner-researcher orientation to his work with educators and school leaders.
Ted holds an MA in the Teaching and Acquisition of English in Multilingual Contexts, a Cambridge DELTA, a PGCE, and a dual BA in Spanish and Creative Writing.
A father of a multilingual child and part of a multilingual family, Ted is committed to additive, asset-based approaches to multilingualism – approaches that honour students' full linguistic and cultural identities and create conditions for authentic engagement, curiosity, and joy in learning.
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