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Teaching ESL students in mainstream

classrooms: Language in learning across the curriculum
• R elevant for all teachers with students learning through a language that is not their primary langauge
• Develops understanding of the support English as a second language (ESL) students need to be
successful learners
• Provides strategies, across the curriculum, for effective teaching and learning
• Underpins all strategies with an understanding of the role of language in learning
• Promotes whole-school approaches to addressing the learning needs of ESL students
Teaching ESL students in mainstream There are now more than 2000 Unlocking The outline of Teaching
classrooms is an innovative professional the World licensed Tutors working in over
ESL students in mainstream
development program. The course 50 countries around the world. Using our
materials present strategies and discuss programs, these Tutors have provided classrooms
issues which consistently address the professional development to over 23,000 Module 1: ESL students and
fundamental relationship between language teachers. learning in a second language
and learning. The program promotes a • Who are ESL students and what are
Teacher Development Course
holistic approach to teaching that will some of the factors that may impact
As a Teaching ESL students in mainstream
ensure students are successful learners. on their success at school?
classrooms trained Tutor, you can deliver
the Teacher Development Course in your • H
ow are culture, language and
Two interlinked own school. The course incorporates identity related and how can we
components group workshops, classroom-based draw positively on the cultural capital
activities and highly practical readings. which ESL students bring?
Teaching ESL students in mainstream
classrooms comprises two interlinked It provides teachers, working across the Module 2: Language and learning
components: curriculum, with successful classroom and the role of scaffolding
strategies for improving the learning • The relationship between the
• Tutor Training Program
achievements of all their students—with language of a text and the context in
• Teacher Development Course. a focus on their ESL students. which it is used.
Tutor Training Program Trained Tutors deliver 25 hours of face- • T
he significance of simultaneously
The Tutor Training Program is an intensive to-face learning in nine modules which, learning a language, learning through
five-day train-the-trainer professional when combined with between module that language, and learning about
development program for teachers. readings and activities, is equivalent that language.
The training is delivered in host schools to more than 50 hours of professional
• A
teaching and learning cycle that
around the world to small groups of development for teachers.
provides an explicit focus on language
between 10 and 20 teachers.
The course provides teachers with an and a framework for scaffolding
Successful graduates of the training opportunity to engage in rigorous and students.
become resident school-based Tutors who sustained professional development.
deliver the Teacher Development Course. Consequently, a number of tertiary
This provides your school with cost institutions around the world, and
effective, school-managed professional in Australia, will grant credit towards
development. further post-graduate studies. Further
information is available at www.
unlockingtheworld.com.
Government of South Australia

Department of Education and
Children’s Services
tutor training program
Teaching ESL students in mainstream classrooms:

Language in learning across the curriculum
Module 3: Oral language: How the Module 9: Programming and

task shapes the talk whole-school models of support for
• T
he central role of oral language and ESL students
the crucial role of teacher interaction • T
eacher programs, incorporating
in supporting and scaffolding strategies considered in the course.
students. • Involving and working in
• A
range of classroom tasks which partnership with families and the
provide opportunities to use and community.
develop oral language as an integral • W
orking collaboratively on whole-
part of teaching a subject effectively. school models of programming,
Module 4: Using oral language: reporting and support for ESL
Other Unlocking the World
Interpreting and producing oral students.
professional development
texts
The aims of Teaching ESL programs:
• W
ays to scaffold students to become
students in mainstream • ESL in the mainstream for the
more effective listeners and speakers. early learner
classrooms
• Oral language assessment tools. Critical role of adults in scaffolding
• Identify the language-related needs children’s learning
Module 5: Working with written and
of ESL students and develop teaching
visual texts • L anguage and literacy: Classroom
practices which address their needs in
applications of functional grammar
• G
enre as part of an explicit approach a holistic and explicit manner.
The patterns of language used in
to teaching and learning.
• D
evelop teachers’ awareness of how subject areas
• S
trategies that could be used to build to accommodate the cultural and
• Gifted education and higher order
students’ understanding about texts linguistic diversity and experiences
thinking: Improving learning
they encounter in their classrooms. of ESL students.
outcomes for every student
Module 6: Working with written and • P
rovide a positive context for teachers Understanding and meeting the
visual texts at the text level to trial suggested strategies and needs of gifted students
• T
he connection between reflect critically and openly on their Incorporating for all students in
purpose, schematic structure and teaching. everyday classrooms the teaching of
language choice. • D
evelop collaborative working higher order thinking and learning
• K
ey language resources that relationships between all teachers skills
writers use to organise their texts through a shared understanding of • Inclusive education: Teaching
so that readers have a sense of what how to support ESL students. students with learning
will follow. difficulties and disabilities in
mainstream classrooms
Module 7: Developing knowledge
Knowledge and skills to develop an
of genre and language at the
understanding of inclusive education
language level
practices for students with learning
• T
he language choices, such as difficulties and disabilities
the nominal group and nominalisa-
You will find details of these programs
tion, that are available to make
at www.unlockingtheworld.com.
technical and abstract meanings
in written texts.
For more information:
Module 8: Assessing written texts
DECS Publishing
• Published print texts used in
Education Development Centre
classrooms.
Level 2, Milner Street, Hindmarsh
• S
tudent texts with a focus on how South Australia 5007
teachers can make assessment a Email: admin@unlockingtheworld.com
supportive strategy for all.

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