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Ways EALD Ways EALD teachers teachers
can work in can work in DECD schoolsDECD schools
Ways EALD Ways EALD teachers teachers
can work in can work in DECD schoolsDECD schools
Why work as a DECD EALD Why work as a DECD EALD Teacher?Teacher?
Learn from students who have diverse life experiences
Enable other students to share these experiences and enhance the learning of others
Work with a range of students (eg migrants, international full-fee payers, students with a refugee experience)
Work in a range of contexts (eg Intensive English Language Centre, Intensive Secondary English Course)
Why work as a DECD EALD Why work as a DECD EALD Teacher?Teacher?
Deliver the learning in various ways (eg one to one, parallel teaching, direct teaching)
Mentor/Coach/Lead colleagues in a range of areas
Accelerate your career (eg TESMC tutor, literacy co-ordinator, international schools)
Satisfaction gained from working with students in need who have a desire to learn
The EALD The EALD TeacherTeacher •supports EALD students to develop the
practices and language skills to achieve learning area outcomes and participate in schooling.
•supports the use of data including LL Levels to inform programming, monitoring and reporting on EALD student progress.
•works flexibly and collaboratively within the school in response to the diversity of EALD students and to maximise the support available to them.
The EALD The EALD TeacherTeacher
Well being and
engagement
Language developm
ent
Key ways of Key ways of workingworking
Work strategically to establish supportive and inclusive school practicesPlan and deliver EALD programsCollaborate with mainstream teachersProvide leadership in EALD data management
Communication and Communication and relationshipsrelationshipscommunicate your role within your
school engage actively with school leadership and learning teams build relationships with a wide range of staff memberspropose initiatives be proactive
Work strategically to establish inclusive supportive school practicesPlan and deliver EALD programs Collaborate with mainstream teachersProvide leadership in EALD data management
Inclusive practicesInclusive practicestransition and enrolment processes inclusive of non English speaking parents/caregivers counselling processes sensitive to issues of resettlement and cultural differencestructures in place to hear and respond to EALD student voice celebrations of diversity eg Harmony day use of bilingual services and Community Liaison Officers for students and parents/caregiversuse of community agencies reflective practices which create safe environments
Work strategically to establish inclusive supportive school practicesPlan and deliver EALD programs Collaborate with mainstream teachersProvide leadership in EALD data management
Supportive programsSupportive programsprograms that support literacy and language development eghomework centresEALD support program
curriculum offerings that meet student needs eg EALD as a subject
Work strategically to establish supportive school practicesPlan and deliver EALD programs Collaborate with mainstream teachersProvide leadership in EALD data management
Plan and deliver EALD Plan and deliver EALD programsprograms establish the EALD student cohort
negotiate and deliver EALD support program and / or direct instruction
use EALD informed pedagogy
Work strategically to establish supportive school practicesPlan and deliver EALD programs Collaborate with mainstream teachersProvide leadership in EALD data management
YesHas the student achieved the outcomes expected of that year level
No support required
Is he / she of non-English speaking background? Is Standard
Australian English an issue?
EALDlearner
YesNo Yes
Does he / she speak an Indigenous language or Aboriginal English?
NoYes
Identify the EALD student Identify the EALD student cohortcohort
Work strategically to establish inclusive supportive school practicesPlan and deliver EALD programs Collaborate with mainstream teachersProvide leadership in EALD data management
Prioritise students in need Prioritise students in need of EALD supportof EALD support
establish who are the EALD students
collect data about the students
prioritise where the need lies
determine how EALD and bilingual support should be delivered
Work strategically to establish supportive school practicesPlan and deliver EALD programs Collaborate with mainstream teachers Provide leadership in EALD data management
EALD informed curriculum EALD informed curriculum pedagogypedagogyfunctional model of language
Language and Literacy Levels to program, monitor, report
teaching learning cycle
explicit about cultural and linguistic understandings
scaffold towards independence
Work strategically to establish supportive school practicesPlan and deliver EALD programs Collaborate with mainstream teachers Provide leadership in EALD data management
Direct teaching of EALD as a Direct teaching of EALD as a subjectsubject
EALD teacher has full responsibility for EALD as a subject including planning, implementation, assessment, reporting
generally occurs in secondary schools where there are sufficient numbers of EALD students to form classes
Work strategically to establish supportive school practicesPlan and deliver EALD programs Collaborate with mainstream teachers Provide leadership in EALD data management
Direct teaching in senior Direct teaching in senior secondarysecondary
direct teaching of ESL at Stage 1 & 2 (using Tier 1 funding)
EALD teacher has responsibility for meeting SACE requirements
Work strategically to establish supportive school practicesPlan and deliver EALD programs Collaborate with mainstream teachers Provide leadership in EALD data management
Direct teaching of new arrivals in Direct teaching of new arrivals in regional schools regional schools
regional schools receiving new arrivals can set aside part of the day for “intensive English”
teacher provides support for English language, settlement, integration in other mainstream classes
requires collaboration and planning with school leadership and teachers
Work strategically to establish supportive school practicesPlan and deliver EALD programs Collaborate with mainstream teachers Provide leadership in EALD data management
Collaborate and share Collaborate and share practicespractices with mainstream with mainstream teachersteachersto build capacity of all teachers to
provide supportive teaching / learning programs for EALD students
Work strategically to establish supportive school practicesPlan and deliver EALD programs Collaborate with mainstream teachers Provide leadership in EALD data management
By supporting
planning of teaching/learning assessment programs
resource development to address the language demands of the subject
assessment and reporting
understandings of students’ Language and Literacy Level and background
Work strategically to establish supportive school practicesPlan and deliver EALD programs Collaborate with mainstream teachers Provide leadership in EALD data management
Through
informal conversations
mentoring
planning meetings
staff meeting presentations
promoting, supporting and engaging in EALD professional development
Work strategically to establish supportive school practicesPlan and deliver EALD programs Collaborate with mainstream teachers Provide leadership in EALD data management
EALD support modes
in-class support withdrawal parallel teaching mentoring team teaching
Work strategically to establish supportive school practicesPlan and deliver EALD programs Collaborate with mainstream teachers Provide leadership in EALD data management
In-class support EALD teacher works with EALD students to support them with the tasks and language demands of the lesson
allows EALD students to work in class but degree of intervention of EALD teacher may be limited
EALD teacher may also support other students
promotes whole school approach to EALD support
joint planning is essential to understand the students’ and teacher's needs but often occurs informally
Work strategically to establish supportive school practicesPlan and deliver EALD programs Collaborate with mainstream teachers Provide leadership in EALD data management
Team teaching EALD teacher provides language specific lessons in mainstream classes to all the students
provides modeling/professional development for mainstream teacher in explicit language teachingmay limit degree of targeted intervention for EALD students unless mainstream teacher is able to take on this support role
joint planning is essential for determining what the EALD teacher will deliver within the whole unit of work
Work strategically to establish supportive school practicesPlan and deliver EALD programs Collaborate with mainstream teachers Provide leadership in EALD data management
Withdrawal
EALD teacher withdraws EALD students for an individual or a sequence of lessons to support specific skill development
allows for focus on specific language needs of individuals within a secure environment
can be a good use of resources when a small number of students with similar needs are scattered over several classes
joint planning with the mainstream teacher is essential although it often happens informally
Work strategically to establish supportive school practicesPlan and deliver EALD programs Collaborate with mainstream teachers Provide leadership in EALD data management
Parallel teaching
EALD students are taught same content as classmates by the EALD teacher in a separate location
EALD teacher responsible for assessing and reporting on learning of the students
allows EALD students to work in smaller groups
initial joint planning with mainstream teacher/s is essential
Work strategically to establish supportive school practicesPlan and deliver EALD programs Collaborate with mainstream teachers Provide leadership in EALD data management
Work strategically to establish supportive school practicesPlan and deliver EALD programs Collaborate with mainstream teachers Provide leadership in EALD data management
Mentoring
• formal mentoring eg focus teacher supporting site based participants of an EALD course
• informal mentoring eg modelling language focused lessons, providing advice during joint planning, teaching and assessment
EALD data management EALD data management
provide leadership
collect data
ensure accuracy of data
access and use data
Work strategically to establish supportive school practicesPlan and deliver EALD programs Collaborate with mainstream teachers Provide leadership in EALD data management
Provide leadership Provide leadership collaborate with school leadership to establish a plan for moving to a whole school approach to collecting and using EALD data eg Levels
collaborate with staff to establish processes for collecting and analysing EALD data eg for collecting student texts and assigning a Level
Work strategically to establish supportive school practicesPlan and deliver EALD programs Collaborate with mainstream teachers Provide leadership in EALD data management
explain the processes to other staff at staff meetings and informally
establish quality processes for accuracy of data
be familiar with the capabilities of EDSAS and other software to collect and analyse data
use school processes to communicate the data and implications
Work strategically to establish supportive school practicesPlan and deliver EALD programs Collaborate with mainstream teachers Provide leadership in EALD data management
Accuracy of dataAccuracy of data
• be familiar with Levels
• attend moderation sessions
• be a driving force in establishing school based moderation processes
Work strategically to establish supportive school practicesPlan and deliver EALD programs Collaborate with mainstream teachers Provide leadership in EALD data management
Access and use dataAccess and use data
use EDSAS and other software functions to
access student data
analyse data
monitor student progress
Work strategically to establish supportive school practicesPlan and deliver EALD programs Collaborate with mainstream teachers Provide leadership in EALD data management
Monitor student progressMonitor student progress
set targets
track Levels
match with other data sets eg NAPLAN, attendance
use data to inform practice and school provision
Work strategically to establish supportive school practicesPlan and deliver EALD programs Collaborate with mainstream teachers Provide leadership in EALD data management