Practical ESOL: NATECLA Midlands Spring Day Conference
The NATECLA Midlands Spring Day Conference, Practical ESOL, promises to be an unmissable day in the ESOL training calendar:
- DATE: Saturday 10 May 2014
- TIME: 09:30 - 13:45
- LOCATION: Leicester College, Abbey Park Campus, Painter Street, Leicester, LE1 3WA. View the location
All ESOL practitioners - from managers and researchers to teachers and trainees - are invited to join us for an innovative programme of practical workshops and networking opportunities, plus vital updates from the ESOL sector.
A resources exhibition will also be available on the day.
Programme
This exciting programme will focus on some of the key challenges facing ESOL practitioners today, including teaching learners with beginner literacy levels, delivering Job Centre provision and the continuous changes to the funding of ESOL provision
- 09:30 - 10:00 - Registration, coffee and resources exhibition
- 10:00 - 10:20 - ESOL Funding Update: Dan Taubman.
- 10:20 - 11:35 - Workshop 1 (choices below)
- 11:35 - 12:00 - Coffee break
- 12:00 - 13:15 - Workshop 2 (choices below)
- 13:15 - 13:45 - Raffle prize draw and NATECLA AGM
Dan is the retired Senior National Education Official for FE and Lifelong Learning at the University and Colleges Union and has been an ESOL champion throughout his career. He is an expert on ESOL Funding and played a pivotol role in the Save the ESOL campaign in 2007 against the introduction of fees. Find out more about Dan Taubman.
Workshop choices - available for both sessions
The workshops will cover strategies and activities you can immediately use in the ESOL classroom and will include:
- Jo Gakonga, 101 ways with dictation
Does the thought of dictation carry the whiff of musty classroom with authoritarian teacher for you? if so (and even if not) come along and let me show you that it doesn’t have to be like that at all. Dictation in the language classroo
m is a great tool for listening practice but can also be used for developing language in a host of other ways and whilst I might not really be able to provide quite as many ideas as the title suggests, there will certainly be plenty for you to take away and use in this very practical session.
- Tina Boon and Esther Derbyshire, ESOL for Employment - Designing the Curriculum
We will look at how curriculum content can be adapted or enhanced to combine language learning with other IT and 'softer' skills required to make learners more employable and job ready.
- Joanna Williams, Becoming authors – teaching basic literacy in ESOL classes
This session will focus on activities for teaching language and literacy to emerging readers and writers. We will consider how to support students with the process of writing; generating ideas, developing language and organising ideas and composing texts. Using visuals, videos from websites, cards and other mediational tools, we will look at strategies and activities to support students to become readers, and authors, of their own texts. We will also look at how to work with mixed levels in Basic Literacy groups.
Request further information
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Date(s): 10 May 2014 to 10 May 2014
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Time: 9.30 to 13:45
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Price: £10 (NATECLA members), £20 (non members)
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Location: Leicester College - Abbey Park Campus
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Address: Leicester College
Abbey Park Campus
Painter Street,
Leicester
LE1 3WA LE1 3WA
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Main contact: Jane Arstall
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Telephone: 07875 683254
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Email: info@natecla.org.uk
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Website: http://www.natecla.org.uk/form.aspx...