EAL/D reading strategies
Watch a teacher and team leader of English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) implements a lesson plan to demonstrate teaching strategies for a pre-service teacher.
Resource information
A teacher and team leader of English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) implements a lesson plan to demonstrate teaching strategies for a pre-service teacher. The teacher models reading strategies and effective communication to demonstrate how students can be encouraged to make predictions and inferences. She then reflects on the aims and outcomes, thereby assisting the pre-service teacher to review, modify and expand his repertoire of teaching strategies.
Cyril Jackson Senior Campus is located eight kilometres from the Perth CBD. The campus population includes a significant number of mature aged students and operates within a strong adult ethos. At the campus, a separate Intensive English Centre caters for up to 150 newly arrived refugees and migrants, aged 16 to 20, who have just begun their education in Australia. The teacher's 'Beginners' class includes students from diverse language and cultural backgrounds.
Discussion questions:
- What styles of effective questioning do you use to support learning intentions and engagement?
- How do you scaffold classroom activities and structure content to target the needs of all students in your class?
