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