EAL Workshops
- Date
- Wednesday 13 February 2019
- EC Stoner Building, SR (9.90)
- 16:30-18:00
EAL Workshops
Calling all EAL practitioners! We are pleased to announce a series of free CPD workshops led by experts within the field. These workshops will be held at the University of Leeds on Wednesday afternoons from 16.30-18.00 pm. Spaces will be limited so please reserve your place as soon as possible through Eventbrite. Registration is now open for the first workshop, Language for learning (going beyond vocabulary), which will be led by Jean Conteh and Dianne Excell. Please see the full schedule of workshops below. Registration is now open for the first workshop, which will be led by Jean Conteh and Dianne Excell on Wednesday 13 February.
| Date | Speaker | Title | Location |
| 13 February | Jean Conteh (University of Leeds) and Dianne Excell (NALDIC) | Language for learning (going beyond vocabulary) | EC Stoner Building, SR (9.90) |
| 6 March | Georgina Vince (Co-op Academy Leeds) | To be confirmed | EC Stoner Building, SR (9.90) |
| 27 March | Louise Wood (University of Leeds) | International New Arrivals | Business School Maurice Keyworth Building, SR (1.09) |
| 17 Apri, | Saiqa Riasat
(Bilingual Learning and Teaching Association) |
Using the Home Language to enrich EAL support | Worsley Building, SR (9.58b) |
| 8 May | Thérèse O’Sullivan (Leeds City Council) | Making words work to support mathematical understanding and reasoning | Business School Maurice Keyworth Building, SR (1.09) |
| 12 June | Dea Nielsen (University of York) | How do we know it works? Approaches and tools for evaluation | EC Stoner Building, SR (9.90) |
| 3 July | Anne McCaffrey (NHS Leeds Community HealthCare) | Identifying and supporting EAL children who may have speech, language and communication needs | Clothworkers South Building LT 2 (3.04) |