[eal-bilingual] Partnership Teaching

Thank you everyone who responded to my request for information about 
what is happening at the moment with partnership teaching. It is good 
to hear that there is a steady and maybe slightly growing interest in 
partnership work. It turns out to still be maybe the most powerful way 
at raising awareness and building capacity in schools for the best 
provision for children new to English. The biggest problem at the 
moment is that it is not a quick fix, but requires reliability and 
patience on the part of EMA consultants. If, however, every EMA 
consultant spent half a day a week on partnership work, we would be ten 
times more effective than all the other initiatives that we have 
encountered since the strategy embraced EAL issues. Pie in the sky??!! 
There is increasing evidence that partnership teaching delivers, and 
even Ofsted acknowledges its power in producing confident teachers of 
bilingual learners. It also produces more collaborative resources that 
produce confident articulate creative children. I plan to work with 
colleagues to run collaborative development workshops in LAs where 
partnership is alive and well. 

Take a look at the most recent activities produced in partnership of 
course on:

http://www.collaborativelearning.org/newsletter.html

Best wishes, Stuart

Collaborative Learning Project, 17 Barford Street, London N1 0QB
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