Joint planning for EAL/D students

An English as an additional language or dialect (EAL/D) specialist and IT teacher meet to plan how to modify a unit of work to support EAL students in a Year 10 Information Processing and Publishing class. The original task required knowledge of skiing that could not be assumed and was unnecessary, so that became the first modification. The EAL/D teacher then recommended breaking down the task components, providing an item bank, and using a Teaching Learning Cycle to plan details.

An EAL/D specialist and a subject teacher have met twice a term to work on identifying and addressing the learning needs of EAL/D students in a year 10 class, particularly regarding the language demands and the prior knowledge assumptions underpinning the set tasks. This third term meeting relates to a new class, and started with the EAL/D specialist providing information about the particular learning needs of the EAL/D students on the class list.