Teaching ESL students in mainstream classrooms: Language in learning across the curriculum is a four-day professional development course that enables schools to build knowledge, skills and understandings to better support the language and learning needs of EAL/D students.

This course provides a deeper understanding of second language acquisition and enables participants to understand the importance of oral language development to embed reading and writing across the curriculum.

The nine modules are interactive and engaging and will involve participants sharing their knowledge and experiences while developing their understandings of EAL/D children and their literacy development.

The outline of the ESL in the mainstream course includes:
Module 1: ESL students and learning in a second language
Module 2: Language and learning and the role of scaffolding Module 3: Oral language: How the task shapes the talk
Module 4: Using oral language: Interpreting and producing oral texts Module 5: Working with written and visual texts
Module 6: Working with written and visual texts at the text level
Module 7: Developing knowledge of language
Module 8: Assessing written texts
Module 9: Programming and whole-school models of support for ESL students

Dates and venue
Wednesday 5 April, Monday 24 April, Friday 16 June and Friday 21 July
Cyril Jackson Senior Campus, 53 Reid St, Bassendean

Registration and Cost
Standard registration – $1,200

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This Professional Development workshop is being run by Learnability. For more information and to register click here.