Bethnal Green Academy
Developing teachers resources and confidence to improve literacy levels of EAL pupils at KS2 and academic English at KS4.
Global Literacy Networks – The Key to Integration
The project ran in 4 Tower Hamlets schools. ‘National Strategy Literacy and Language Development’ Consultants trained 9 Literacy Champions who in turn trained 178 teachers in different faculties. Consultants worked with the Literacy Champions to develop cross-curricular literacy which included: lesson observations, partnership teaching, resource creation, whole school CPD, and evaluation of impact: interviews, and filming of lessons. Teachers involved developed 2000 resources, shared on a specially built website.
By the end of the project teachers felt nearly twice as confident in ‘delivering literacy in the mainstream classroom’ and developing language through cross-curricular working.
Pupil’s language and literacy improved significantly with three times as many using connectives, verbs, imperatives, positional prepositions, impersonal voice and layout.
Paired work, modelled writing and use of a more complex vocabulary gave students the confidence they were lacking and, by the end, the desire to compete, engage more, and try to outdo each other, in such a short period of time. I consider the project a great success, and wish I had done it for longer.
Contact
Agnieszka Laskus: [email protected]
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