EAL learners continues to increase, and their needs vary widely, from new arrivals with little or no English to third generation EAL who need advanced academic language skills. Some arrivals have had significant prior education and others have serious gaps in prior learning. As schools’ capacity to provide specialist withdrawal teaching is reduced, teachers need even greater expertise to support these pupils in lessons. The demands of the new curriculum make an even greater demand on pupils’ language skills. EAL in the Mainstream Classroom is a suite of programmes designed to enhance teachers’ language skills so that they can provide more focussed classroom provision for EAL learners.
Programmes include: three levels of teacher training programmes and associated materials for:
- Beginning Teachers (Level 1),
- Specialist and experienced teachers (Level 2)
- Mainstream subject teachers (Level 3)