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 gain insight into the challenges EAL learners face when learning both in and through English simultaneously.
  • To learn practical, easy-to-implement strategies to help EAL students develop the language skills needed to succeed.
  • To enhance your ability to support EAL learners in accessing the curriculum more effectively.
  • To equip yourself with tools that enable EAL pupils to reach their full academic potential.
  • To strengthen your role as a teaching assistant in providing targeted support for EAL learners in the classroom.

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: 21 January 2025 9:30 - 11:30am 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

    Taunton (venue TBC).

  • Type

    Face-to-Face Course, Regional training

  • Location

    South West

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