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If you work on #EAL in a school and leadership is not fully behind you, supporting, encouraging, enabling, then it is hard, hard work and I think you can be proud of any small achievements. Here’s to you all.
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‘knows more English than they let on’ - on a transition note about a pupil who arrived in the country new to English a few months ago. I find the attitude concerning - am determined to make sure that child will be surrounded by empathetic adults and all the support they need.
If news orgs wanted to, they could fire up the live blog. They could give minute-by-minute updates. They could fill the time with interviews from naval and coast guard experts. We could learn about the human stories of the people on this boat. We could be made to empathise.
My new post on #EAL Learning Postcards: "Is this normal? -encouraging #ParentalEngagement" eal.pjb.co.uk/index.php/blog/ Thank you @Jmosley_history for the original Learning Postcard idea.
Robert Jenrick: taking action on the people’s priorities, which apparently now includes making children feel less safe & welcome. I can barely find words to express how despicable this is & @RobertJenrick should be made to answer for it. This craven villainy represents no one.
Independent immigration policy expert, Zoe Gardner, on LBC: “Robert Jenrick, the minister for frightening small children.” Pithy, to the point and utterly damning.
#EAL pupil labelled ‘lazy’ by a teacher without considering the challenges the child faces, which are considerable 😔 I want to say it’s ‘lazy’ not to seek answers as to what’s going on… But I stop and reflect on what’s gone wrong here, because that all needs addressing!
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate, value and enjoy those languages, but a sense of loss has definitely been my companion for as long as I can remember. Prob why I advocate so much both professionally & personally for children not losing their linguistic & cultural heritages. (2/3)
One of the most powerful analogies by Pauline Gibbons explaining why content and language teaching in our classrooms needs to happen simultaneously. #multilingual #EAL #MLs
The 2023 Schools Census data is now available. It tells us that the both the number and the proportion of EAL pupils are continuing to rise. @PLSEALDep @rs_EAL @EALteach @BetterBilingual @FrankMonaghan @FranNantongwe
🧵Lots to digest from the @EngMediaCentre @__BAAL symposium on Challenging Linguistic Discrimination. @KhawlaBadwan delivered a fab keynote w/loads of important ideas about language, literacy & literacy monsters, arguing for a 'plurilithic' not 'monolithic' view of literacy. 1.
“You’re getting smarter” said a well meaning teacher of a 11 yr old EAL pupil, referring to her progress in learning English. I winced at the word choice. “She’s smart already”, I said in the pupil’s defence, “She speaks 2 languages, for example”. “3” corrected the pupil. 🙌
We should both collect #EAL proficiency data in England AND invest in doing that collection properly. The brief period in which it was collected nationally was characterised by an absence of central guidance, moderation or quality assurance.
Independent immigration policy expert, Zoe Gardner, on LBC: “Robert Jenrick, the minister for frightening small children.” Pithy, to the point and utterly damning.
This anecdote is so important when we consider phonics teaching and #EAL
This was on my to buy list for a while. I finally ordered it, prompted by @EALteach. It reminded me of a bemused Polish child sitting in the imageless phonics lesson, when she was taught: a is for ant and showed the crawling gestures up her arm. For her it would be m for mrówka.
Reminded this week that if we find a way at school events to engage families in real conversations about their languages and language practices - show interest, ask questions, learn - it will be valuable time spent and it will be joyful.
Finally got my hands on a copy of ‘A is for Bee’ by Ellen Heck. I knew I would love it! Will be such a good resource to share with children to explore languages, especially with the audio levinequerido.com/aisforbee @LevineQuerido
Reading this important thread, this shocking quote stopped me in my tracks
Some participants recalled how post-lesson feedback was often not centred on discussions of pedagogy at all, but instead focused on the hostile and racialised policing of language which led pre-service teachers to question whether they wanted to remain in teaching. As Leon said:
Talking with a colleague about a new student. They’ve been told the correct pronunciation of the student’s name and I’m using it. They continue to use a v different pronunciation they find easier. I’m left weighed down by what entrenched attitudes we have to continually challenge
Getting ready for next week's Polish, Portuguese, Greek, Japanese, Chinese and Russian oral GCSE/A level exams. Gerald the giraffe has proven very useful: he does not rustle paper, jingle bracelets or make noise when squeezed by (some) anxious teenagers whilst being recorded #EAL
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