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Teaching Assistants Working with Learners Using EAL (Regional Training)

This session aims to familiarise teaching assistants (TAs) with some of the challenges that learners using EAL might face when learning in English and learning through English at the same time.

Who should register for the training

  • Teaching assistants and support staff in secondary school settings.

 

Why you should register for the training

  • To understand the unique challenges EAL learners face when learning English and the curriculum simultaneously.
  • To learn practical, easy-to-implement strategies for supporting EAL learners in developing essential language skills.
  • To gain tools to help EAL pupils access the curriculum more effectively and achieve their full potential.
  • To enhance your ability to provide targeted language support as a teaching assistant in various classroom settings.
  • To improve your capacity to support both language development and academic progress for EAL learners.

To register please follow the link: EAL – Bell Foundation: Teaching Assistants: Working with Learners using EAL in a secondary school classroom - Five Counties Teaching School Hubs Alliance (fivecountiesalliance.co.uk).

If you have any questions that specifically relate to the training topic, please send them to: info@fivecountiesalliance.co.uk.

Date and time: 30 January 2025 1:30 - 3:30pm UK time (UTC+1) 

The training is conducted by: Five Counties Teaching School Hubs Alliance

Please note: this training is conducted by our Centre of Expertise. Please click here to view all our Centres of Expertise and Individual Licensed Practitioners in the UK and the upcoming training in the regions. 

 

Event details

Price

£45

  • Date

  • Time

  • Venue

    CLF Institute Russell Town Ave, Redfield, Bristol.

  • Type

    Face-to-Face Course, Regional training

  • Location

    South West

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