[eal-bilingual] Notifications and Announcements

Dear All,

This week's notice includes: 

1. Course - Postgraduate Certificate in the Teaching of English as an Additional Language

2. Course - MA course: Bilingual Learners in Urban Educational Settings

3. Vacancy - TEACHER OF EAL - ERNEST BEVIN COLLEGE - London

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, 

Vicky
Becta

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1. Course - Postgraduate Certificate in the Teaching of English as an Additional Language

The Institute of Education, in partnership with Redbridge Local Authority, is offering this course under the auspices of the Training and Development Agency for Schools. The course is specially designed to meet the professional needs of teachers of bilingual learners in infant, primary or secondary schools.

The course will be offered at two sites, the Institute of Education in central London, and Redbridge Teachers’ Centre, and will run part time (four days per term) over one year.

The course leads to a qualification: the Postgraduate Certificate in the Teaching of English as an Additional Language. The course is offered at Masters level. This means that successful graduates from the Certificate may take 60 out of 90 credits forward to Masters’ courses. One course: the MA in Bilingual Learners in Urban Educational Settings has been specifically designed to provide such a route to further study in this field.

WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?
This course will be of interest to anyone teaching in a mainstream primary or secondary school, has a management role, or is a Minority Ethnic Achievement coordinator in their school. Applicants will have a degree, qualified teacher status (QTS), and at least three years’ teaching experience.

WHO TEACHES ON THE COURSE?
The course leader is Dr Catherine Wallace, Reader in Education at the Institute of Education. Jannis Abley (Deputy Manager, Ethnic Minority Advisory Team) will lead on the Redbridge strand of the course. They will be supported by a course team consisting of professional teacher trainers with many years’ experience in the field.

WHAT DOES THE COURSE CONSIST OF?
Three taught modules, one per term. These will run on selected Thursdays – four full days at the IOE or at Redbridge.

supported by training and development agency for schools
www.ioe.ac.uk
For more information please contact: Beatrice Peries
Course administrator
20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AL
Tel 020 7612 6495
Email b.peries at ioe.ac.uk
Closing date for applications: 15 September 2008

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2. Course - MA course: Bilingual Learners in Urban Educational Settings

The MA course, Bilingual Learners in Urban Educational Settings, is designed for teachers and other professionals who work with bilingual children.
Participants on the course will develop practical proposals for classroom research, curriculum planning and materials development to support the teaching and learning of bilingual pupils in urban schools. In addition, the course will help participants to provide leadership within their schools and Local Authorities to maximise support for linguistic minority children in London.

Course participants will complete two core modules and then chose from a selection of optional modules. They will then do a report or dissertation on a topic of their choice.

Core modules are:
• Sociolinguistics and Language in Society
• and The Multilingual Classroom

Optional modules include:
• Multilingual and Multicultural London
• Language, Culture and Identity
• Teaching and Learning in Urban Settings
• Early Childhood Learning
• Discourse, Society and Culture
• Multimodal Texts in Learning and Teaching

For more information,
contact the Course Leader,
Dr Catherine Wallace on
+44 (0)20 7612 6536 or by
e-mail: c.wallace at ioe.ac.uk
www.ioe.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)20 7612 6536
Email: c.wallace at ioe.ac.uk

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3. Vacancy - TEACHER OF EAL - ERNEST BEVIN COLLEGE - London

TEACHER OF EAL 
Salary: Main Scale
Location: LONDON SW1
School: ERNEST BEVIN COLLEGE
Contract: term Temporary
Start date: September 2008

Main Scale (Maternity Cover) – Temporary with possibility to extend into full time contract

For September 2008

We are seeking an enthusiastic and committed Teacher of EAL to work within our recently established EAL/EMA department. The department has well established partnership teaching and offers a range of support to EAL students.  The successful candidate will work with two EAL members of staff, and pupils with a range of languages and backgrounds.

Ernest Bevin College is an 11-19 boys school with a mixed sixth form of approximately 250 students based in new buildings, with good transport links. The college has recently opened its new £7 million Sixth Form Centre and Sports Complex. All staff have access to the 25m swimming pool, sports hall and fitness suite. The percentage of pupils gaining 5+ A* - C has increased from 29% in 2001 to 61% in 2007.

The post provides an ideal opportunity to work within a supportive department and offers considerable rewards in terms of personal and professional development.

For further details please contact the college.

Ernest Bevin College - Sports, Maths and Computing College - A leading Edge College 'A good school with high aspirations and expectations' Ofsted March 2007

Beechcroft Road, Tooting, London, SW17 7DF
Tel: 020 8672 8582 Fax: 020 8767 5502

Principals: Mike Chivers, BSc, ACA
Rukhsana Sheikh, BSc, MA