EAL Assessment, Target Setting, Tracking and Effective Strategies

Course Overview
Developing and enhancing your skills in assessment for EAL Learners.

This course will equip you with the resources, knowledge and skills necessary to make robust, evidence based assessments of EAL learners, including children new to English. All course participants will receive a copy of the NASSEA EAL Assessment Framework book. The NASSEA book is a cross curricular resource which helps practitioners observe, document and accelerate the ways bilingual pupils start to use English as a tool for learning in school, then continue to develop their use of English through all their subject areas.

Why attend?

• There are growing numbers of EAL learners in our schools, including new arrivals from many different countries
• Schools have many different tools to assess children, but not all assessments used for monolingual speakers of English work well for EAL learners.

What will it cover?

• Getting the basics right - effective initial assessment for new arrivals
• Building on the basics to create good assessment practice across all key stages
• NASSEA assessment for EAL learners

Who should attend?
Teachers, TAs, assessment co-ordinators

Cost
2 funded places for Liverpool Authority maintained primary schools
2 places for schools who subscribe to the EMTAS "Developing Excellence in EAL Practice and Pedagogy" SLA
£50 for other delegates.