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Hi EAL teachers,

Alex and myself (Sarah) are classroom teachers who have a large proportion of EAL students in our school community. It was great to attend the first day of this PD to learn more about how to assess our students. Our EAL coordinator wanted us to deliver what we learnt at the PD to our classroom teachers. We decided to just quickly show them how to navigate to the speaking and listening rubric and videos which guide them through the assessment. As it was a short PD that we delivered, we weren’t able to show them extensively what we learnt, just an introduction. We also showed our teachers the list of ‘what EAL students said they would like their teachers to do’ page and the ‘getting to know your EAL students’ list of questions as we found these really useful also. We found this was a really good reminder for our staff of how important it is to get to know students and families to ease the transition process.

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