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• One of our research areas is missing

  By Pete on October 10, 2024 • ( 1 )

  

  I’ve been flicking through Jamie Clark’s Teaching One-Pagers recently, and overall I’m a big fan. Evidence-informed summaries of research and practice – informative, accessible, perfect for the staffroom coffee table.  As Oliver Caviglioli points out in the foreword, One-Pagers is… Read More ›

• Pre-teaching academic vocabulary

  By Pete on September 29, 2024 • ( 4 )

  

  This term we’re trialing an approach to pre-teaching academic vocabulary. Here’s the basic process: Step 1: Subject teachers identify 10-12 items of key vocab for an upcoming topic in either science, humanities, or maths. This should happen a couple of… Read More ›

• Using the Bell Assessment Framework in hybrid EAL provision

  By Pete on September 17, 2024 • ( 4 )

  

  I’ve written a few things on the Bell Assessment Framework this past year. Here were my initial reflections on implementing the framework, and some musings on how it could be improved. In this post, I share some thoughts on using… Read More ›

• Financial advice in TEFL

  By Pete on September 5, 2024 • ( 1 )

  

  The first time I ‘planned for the future’ was in 2015. I’d just joined the British Council that August. The move felt like my commitment to an ELT career, and with it came thinking about family, finances, and ‘you know,… Read More ›

• Materials writing conversations #18: The Test Specification

  By Pete on August 14, 2024 • ( 1 )

  

  This is completely imaginary blah blah blah. Hi Pete, Thanks for agreeing to write the official practice exams for the Test Of English Within Academic, Research, and Technical Settings (TOEWARTS), 2025 specification. As you know, endorsed exam practice resources like… Read More ›

• EAL Digest, August 2024

  By Pete on August 4, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  I’ve had some help from Adri Szlapak with this update! We’ve been adding interesting EAL stuff to a doc throughout the month. Here it all is! New releases Pedagogies for Equitable Access was released at the end of July. For… Read More ›

• Review: Be More Toddler

  By Pete on July 27, 2024 • ( 1 )

  

  Be More Toddler: A leadership education from our little learners, is a short reflection on leadership by Emma Turner. The author is an experienced leader, consultant, and former co-head at a UK school. It’s published by John Catt books. The… Read More ›

• ‘What a good lesson looks like’

  By Pete on July 23, 2024 • ( 1 )

  

  The personal statement for the Assessment Only Route to QTS is 2000 words. In this statement, you should respond to the following questions: So, you’ve got roughly 400 words to address each question. This took some thinking about. Reflecting on… Read More ›

• Leading EAL: quality assurance processes

  By Pete on July 19, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  Our senior leadership team (SLT) oversee a broad-ranging quality assurance process at our school. Here are some of the processes we have undertaken as a department to reflect on/ensure the quality of EAL provision in our context. These may seem… Read More ›

• EAL INSET: Types of inclusion

  By Pete on July 13, 2024 • ( 1 )

  

  This CPD session that explored types of inclusion was for delivered to our EAL department only (4 staff). Why this session? I took a course on EAL coordination through the Bell Foundation back in September/October (see my review here). The… Read More ›

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