Teaching Multilingual Learners: EALD Hub +

Description

A hybrid year-long course, combining the EALD Hub online course and 10 webinars throughout 2024. Available to teachers in AISWA-member schools who teach learners for whom English is an additional language or dialect (EALD) in metro, regional and remote settings.

Throughout 2024, AISWA is offering access to the the nationally acclaimed EALD Hub, a self paced online course comprising of 29 eBooks, plus 10 hour-long webinars via Teams, facilitated by AISWA Consultants.

About the EALD Hub
The EALD Hub is an online professional development course for teachers. It was developed collaboratively by experts from across Australia. It was largely designed to provide high-quality education to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, and in particular, those students who are learning Standard Australian English as an additional language or dialect. The course is also useful to teachers of EALD learners in any context, who wish to learn strategies and approaches about how to teach Standard Australian English to multilingual learners.

The EALD Hub consists of 29 e-Books. Each e-Book has a video introduction, a journal reflection task, content presented via readings and videos, checking for understanding quiz, an action research task, and a final journal reflection task. It takes approximately 30-60 minutes to ‘walk through’ each e-Book, however, it is the action research task that provides an opportunity to link the knowledge with teacher practice. It will provide teachers with a focus over several weeks and an opportunity to link to in-school mentoring or performance management. Teachers can do the course at their own pace, although, it is advisable to set milestones along the way.

About the webinars
AISWA will hold regular webinars throughout 2024 to help you reach these milestones, and to provide opportunities to network with other teachers in AISWA-member schools. All webinars are held on Tuesdays, 3.30-4.30pm. 

Term 1
Week 4: Introduction to the EALD HUB (20 February)
Week 5: Learners and their languages (27 February) 
Week 7: Ways of Working (12 March)
Term 2
Week 2: Identifying EALD Learners (23 April)
Week 4: How language works (7 May)
Week 8: Learning an additional language or dialect (4 June)
Term 3
Week 2: How Standard Australian English works (23 July)
Week 6: Assessment and monitoring (20 August)
Term 4 
Week 2: Curriculum planning and pedagogy, e-Books 23-25 (22 October)
Week 5: Curriculum planning and pedagogy, e-Books 26-29 (12 November)

What past participants had to say:

"The course is enriching and relevant to where I work. It has given me some pedagogical knowledge on how to teach literacy to EALD learners. Also, the fact that the course is framed against the teacher performance standard makes preparation on teachers' part sincere and accountable to plan, teach, assess and report on and of course , not mentioning that teacher appraisal counts also. Furthermore, there are sufficient content notes backed by tasks which provide teachers with practice and reflective tools."

"The webinars were invaluable to me for providing guidance and clarity on the main ideas to take away and think about/implement. The ideas were also broken down to enable participants to give their feedback on a practical level. Being able to be part of a community of learners was great on both a personal and professional level."

"The webinars were extremely relevant and useful. The time schedule suited our work hours as well. I appreciated the in-depth information and content being delivered."

Register before 19 February to fully take part in this course. After you have registered you will receive login details for an EALD Hub account and further instructions, within 5 working days.