For years, I have stood in professional development sessions and leadership meetings recommending best practice strategies for multilingual learners. But recently, I’ve traded my full-time strategic leadership hat for a… Read more »
We’ve all had that student in our classroom. They are attentive, their eyes follow you as you move, and they seem to be soaking everything in – yet, they don’t… Read more »
This academic year has felt less like a steady climb and more like a series of high-stakes crossroads. Since our school provisions changed and we implemented differentiated English lessons for… Read more »
Anna Leaman’s recent article on the ASCL website strongly resonated with me as we are reviewing our literacy programme at school. Anna notes: We know reading underpins learning across every… Read more »
A summary of my workshop from the ESOL SIG Showcase on 10 April 2025 at IATEFL 2025: Who are multilingual learners? We started the session by discussing who multilingual learners… Read more »
I’m impatient, which means I often feel conflicted when I’m teaching. I rarely get through an entire lesson without having to change course and it gives me anxiety. I feel… Read more »
Special thanks to Pete Clements at EALPlanning for prompting me to write this all up in a post. Cambridge command words are essential for all KS3 and KS4 learners. EAL… Read more »
A while ago I had the opportunity to chat to Laura Wilkes at TESOL Pop about using L1s in the language classroom. You can listen to the podcast here or… Read more »
When discussing EAL provisions we often hear the phrase ‘giving learners access to their full linguistic repertoire’ mentioned, and with good reason. Research has shown that multilingual learners do better… Read more »
If there is one thing that EAL learners struggle with, it is fluency. They find many of the different aspects of it difficult: speaking English doesn’t come easy to them,… Read more »