Beyond the Register: Pride in Multilingual Reports
As educators, report-writing season often brings a familiar anxiety. We stare at data, scan our class lists, and try to distill a child’s entire academic journey into a few concise… Read more »
Tag: #younglearners
Bridging the Gap Between Leadership and the Classroom
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 »
Reaching the Quiet Ones: Why We Must Value the Silent Period
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 »
Literacy Development for Multilingual Learners
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 »
Supporting young multilingual learners in content-based instruction
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 »
Understanding the silent period
With the start of the year and the new term, we’ve had a number of new to English learners arrive to our school. Helping them settle in is our number… Read more »
The art of slowing down: pastoral support for EAL learners
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 »
Supporting elementary English
Our EAL provision in the elementary school this year included supported English lessons for immersion and intermediate level EAL learners in years 1 to 6 on a weekly basis. In… Read more »
Inclusion and EAL
After my chat with Khanh-Duc Kutting on Teachers Talk Radio about inclusion and why it matters in the EAL classroom and my recent involvement with the inclusion strategic development committee… Read more »
Science and EAL in the elementary school
Over the past few weeks, I’ve become more involved in Science in Year 6 through observations and cover needs. This is a welcome development for me as in my previous… Read more »