Course Length: 10 hours (access is 365 days from date of enrolment)

Course Creators: Dr Jennifer Hammond and Maya Cranitch AM

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This online PETAA Program: Supporting EAL/D Students in our Classroom, created by Dr Jennifer Hammond and Maya Cranitch provides a deep dive pedagogical approach towards the education of EAL/D students in Australia.

The program explores the importance and practicalities of providing high challenge programs for EAL/D students in mainstream programs, while also providing high levels of support in response to students’ specific needs. It demonstrates examples of well-planned programs that are characterised by clear purposes for learning; and by sequences of learning that address the needs of EAL/D students. The program highlights the importance of talk in and for learning, and the role of language in mediating learning. Finally, it addresses the need for EAL/D students in mainstream programs to be supported to learn academic English.

Learning Outcomes:

• Work with the principle of high challenge: what high challenge means; and what programs that are characterised by high challenge look like
• Identify what high support means, implement strategies that offer high support for EAL/D students in mainstream classes and design programs that are characterised by high support
• Develop processes of systematic and collaborative program planning that build on shared expertise of class and EAL/D teachers
• Organise content into coherent well-sequenced learning and teaching programs
• Understand the importance for EAL/D students of explicit and systematic support to learn to talk (and read and write) academic English within the context of mainstream classes
• Plan and implement programs and lessons that support EAL/D students to talk to learn and learn to talk (and read and write) academic English
  

Program structure:

• Part 1: High Challenge, High Support Programs for EAL/D students
• Part 2: Program Planning to Support EAL/D Students
• Part 3: Talking to Learn and Learning to Talk for EAL/D Students

Who is this course for?

• Teachers F-6 with EAL/D students in their classes, including new arrivals
• Literacy Leaders
• EAL/D Coordinators
• Principals, Deputy Principals and Assistant Principals with EAL/D students in their schools
• Heads of Curriculum, Instructional Leadership and Teaching and Learning  

About your course creators:

Dr Jennifer Hammond has a PhD in Applied Linguistics and has worked at various Australian universities over the past 40 years as lecturer, senior lecturer and Associate Professor in the fields of language and literacy education and research design. Her research has addressed the educational needs of students for whom English is an Additional Language (EAL students) and the nature programs that are designed to meet the their needs. Dr Hammond's research has also addressed programs that support newly arrived EAL and refugee students in Australian schools.

Maya Cranitch (AM) has had many years of experience at Australian Catholic University (ACU) and now at the University of Sydney, lecturing in TESOL, literacy and Community Languages education. She has worked with the NSW Department of Education on developing the Teaching Refugees in My Classroom course.

What else do I need to know?

• This PL program is self-paced and unmoderated. All participants have access to materials for 365 days from the date they register.
•  This course addresses standards 1.3.2 and 1.5.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers. 

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