Implications For Teaching Students with English as an Additional Background in the Mainstream Classr

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My current role in my school involves working in Intervention. The two areas that I work in are to assist students and support teachers with Reading intervention and also English as an Additional Language, or dialect (EAL/D) students in our school. I have developed a Professional Development Power Point to unpack the implications for teaching EAL/D students in the mainstream classroom when completing my unit on TESOL through A.C.U last semester. With an increasing number of our students coming from different backgrounds and cultures, we need to be aware of what this means for classroom teachers. EAL/D students require extra support through careful scaffolding. It is not enough to just immerse these students in the new language they are learning. An understanding of the stages that students go through in order to become proficient in their new language is helpful for teachers to plan for these students within the curriculum they are delivering. Through undertaking my current unit on Learning Spaces, I am now able to use the new skills I have learnt to link this PowerPoint as an on-line presentation. The presentation is about fifteen minutes long.

Please follow this link to view this presentation.

The reference list is included as a separate post as it was not attached to the end of the on-line presentation.