[eal-bilingual] Notifications and Announcements

Dear All,

This week's notice includes: 

1. Vacancy -  Deputy Head of Diversity Service in North Lincolnshire LA

2. Conference - Speaking and Listening Saturday 2nd February 2008 -  9.30a.m -1.00 p.m.

3. vacancy - energetic SENCO with EAL background

Full details below. 

If you have any announcements, information about courses, details of conferences, job vacancies that you would like included in future notices please email details to: eal-bilingual-owner at lists.becta.org.uk

Regards, 

Carmel

Becta

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1. Vacancy -  Deputy Head of Diversity Service in North Lincolnshire LA

The post has been advertised in this weeks Times Educational Supplement with a closing date of Friday 25th January 2008. The post is on the Leadership scale and comes under the terms and conditions for Senior Leaders in Schools.

Grade/Salary:
Leadership Scale L3-L7 (£36,708 - £40,590)

Location:
Diversity Service
c/o Crosby Primary School
Frodingham Road
Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire
DN15 7NL
Tel: 01724 280207

Description:

The Diversity Service is a dynamic and vibrant service, which has undergone considerable change so that is well placed to deliver the DCSF’s “Aiming High” Strategy and meet the needs of minority ethnic pupils and their families according to the Every Child Matters agenda.  The work of the service is increasing due to the increasing number of new arrivals requiring English as an additional language support across the Local Authority.  More recently the work of the service has also widened to include support for Gypsy, Roma and Traveller pupils and monitoring of provision of pupil’s educated at home.

We require a Deputy Head of Service who is passionate and enthusiastic about making a real difference to the lives of minority ethnic pupils by promoting academic excellence, inclusion and community cohesion. Ideal candidates for the post will be teachers with a proven track record in enabling pupils to reach their full potential academically and have experience in advising, supporting and challenging schools in meeting the needs of minority ethnic pupils effectively, through capacity building.

The post provides an exciting opportunity for an outstanding individual who has excellent interpersonal skills and who is innovative, creative and flexible and wishes to jointly manage and lead a team of committed teachers and support staff.

If you require further information about the post, contact Sameena Choudry on 01724 280207 or by e-mail Sameena.Choudry at northlincs.gov.uk 

Any offer of employment to this post will be subject to receipt of a satisfactory Disclosure from the Criminal Records Bureau.  The full version of our Recruitment of ex offenders and Criminal Records Bureau Disclosure procedure can be accessed from our website at www.northlincs.gov.uk/northlincs/Jobsandcareers

For an application form and job description, please telephone (01724) 296617/6614/6607 (answer phone out of office hours), or e-mail transaction.team at northlincs.gov.uk

Application forms, job descriptions and person specifications are also available at www.northlincs.gov.uk

Closing Date:  Friday, 25th January 2008

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2. Conference - Speaking and Listening Saturday 2nd February 2008 -  9.30a.m -1.00 p.m.

London Association for the Teaching of English
c/o 20 Vanbrugh Hill, LONDON SE3 7UF.
Website: www.late.org.uk

Speaking and Listening

Saturday 2nd February 2008 -  9.30a.m -1.00 p.m.

Netley Primary School
Netley Street
NW1 3EN
(Nearest Tube: Euston Square)

Main Speaker

Valerie Coultas 
Senior Lecturer, School of Education 
Kingston University

After ten years of a highly prescriptive English curriculum it appears that there is to be some form of relaxation and the possibility of new opportunities to raise the profile of speaking and listening in both primary and secondary phases. But how deep are these changes? Will speaking and listening and drama be allowed to move to the centre of the stage? Will teachers in urban classrooms be given the freedom to experiment and develop new approaches to address the needs of the pupils they teach?
How can teachers succeed in engaging even the most difficult pupils in real learning through talk? Valerie Coultas, author of Constructive Talk in Challenging Classrooms, will initiate a discussion around some of these issues.
Conference delegates will then have the opportunity to explore speaking and listening work through a choice of primary and secondary focussed workshops.

Programme
9.30a.m.: Coffee and registration
10.00a.m.: Valerie Coultas, Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Kingston University
Speaking, Listening, Learning – New Opportunities?
In her keynote, Valerie Coultas – author of the recently published Constructive Talk in Challenging Classrooms – will explore how far recent and impending curriculum changes will offer greater opportunities to develop effective speaking and listening within primary and secondary English work.
11.00a..m.: Coffee
11.15 a.m: Workshop Groups – choose one from list opposite and overleaf
12.45 p.m.: Lunch
Fee (including lunch and coffee):
£20  members of LATE or NATE (institutional membership entitles one person to reduced rate)
£25 non-members
£5   students and unwaged
(n.b. an additional fee of £10.00 will be charged for ‘paying on the door’).

Workshops
1. Storytelling 
(Jude Evans, Headteacher, Netley Primary School) 
Don’t let storytelling become a lost art or the preserve of specialists. Storytelling is an ancient human art which anyone can enjoy.  This practical workshop will help you create a community of storytellers in your classroom. You will explore strategies to support all children in  becoming confident tellers and retellers of stories..The workshop is open to both primary and secondary colleagues and participants will take away a useful bank of story resources.

2. Talking about Reading
(Sameena Bashir, Teaching and Learning Consultant– Primary Literacy, Enfield)
In the light of current debate surrounding the ‘best fit’ method for the teaching of reading, this workshop aims to explore the speaking and listening elements of a broader literacy curriculum by examining the links between the traditions of ‘Reading Aloud’ and development of oral language.  This group will engage in the Reading Aloud experience on a practical and theoretical basis by: exploring a range of well-known books for children of all ages (Primary and Secondary); identifying speaking and listening opportunities within the context of individual texts and examining the premise, ‘Is Talking about Reading as important as Phonics?’ All participants will be provided with an activities bank of questions to support speaking and listening opportunities within the process of ‘Reading Aloud’ in their schools. 

3. Using Picture Books to Teach Units of Work
(Redbridge Leading Primary Teachers Group)
It is agreed practice that good quality texts and effective speaking and listening activities are vital to facilitate both achievement and enjoyment.  In this workshop we look at what this looks like in the classroom and how it is possible, despite pressures on attainment and the achievement of curricular targets.  The session will explore using a single text to teach an extended unit of work, covering a range of objectives and ensuring engagement and progression. There will be a focus on complex picture/Multi-modal books and visual learning.

4. Designing Collaborative Learning Activities for Content Learning and Language Development
(Steve Cooke, Collaborative Learning Project)
This workshop will aim to explore how content learning in English can be successfully integrated with language development through the use of collaborative learning activities.  These activities emphasize pupils' active use of language as a tool for thinking, exploring ideas and learning.  The session will examine how the context and procedure of an activity and the use of Key Visuals can make the curriculum content more accessible to pupils, as well as allowing them to focus on particular features of language which are essential or relevant to the nature of the content.  There will be opportunities for participants to try out some collaborative learning materials and to share ideas and opinions about the materials and the theories which inform their design and use.

5. Talking and Learning with Challenging Children 
(Valerie Coultas, Senior Lecturer, School of Education Kingston University)
Drawing on the work leading to the publication Constructive Talk  in Challenging Classroom, this workshop will encourage participants to explore the challenges presented when attempting to organise effective speaking and listening work, and consider practical approaches to overcome them.

Forthcoming LATE Conferences
Saturday 17th May 2008, Every Child Matters in the English Classroom
Friday 27th – Sunday 29th June 2008, LATE Summer Weekend Residential Conference, English for Life, at Stoke Rochford Hall, near Grantham

To become involved in the planning of these or future conferences, please contact one of the member of the John Wilks or another member of the LATE Committee. Visit the website at www.late.org.uk

For a Conference application form and directions please contact:
Stuart Scott Collaborative Learning Project, 17 Barford Street, London N1 0QB  		
Email: stuart.scott at collaborativelearning.org

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 3. vacancy - energetic SENCO with EAL background

Small Heath School in Birmingham, in which the majority of pupils are EAL learners, has advertised a new SENCO post in this week's TES. The Governors are looking for a lively and energetic SENCO with EAL background, someone who can work within the Learning Support Team to move this thriving and 'Outstanding' (OFSTED 07) School forward. Please check details of the post on the School' website www.Smallheathschool.org.uk.