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pooxs

today I have...

Jan 30, 2009 22:58

(re)written four whole year course outlines and assessments: 3A/B English (TEE), 3A/B English as an Additional Language or Dialect (also TEE, for those who are smart but cannot express this fully in English as it is not their home language), 1A/B (sorta Senior English/Vocational English combination), and Year 8 English ( Read more... )

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purrdence January 31 2009, 04:59:00 UTC

I'm doing 1A/1B this year. I'm technically not qualified to do it (English is my minor), but apparently there's no one else free to teach it.

pooxs February 1 2009, 06:38:46 UTC

it's not particularly hard, given it's low level stuff and the kids that do it aren't generally skilled enough to do anything high even if you were trained to do it with them.

let me know if you want any resources

ataxi January 31 2009, 09:51:20 UTC

Stop saying EALD! You sound like my mum!

pooxs February 1 2009, 06:39:29 UTC

why? should I be politically incorrect and say ESL?

ataxi February 1 2009, 10:35:04 UTC

No, nothing to do with politics: it just freaks me out when women younger than me sound like my mum :-)

pooxs February 1 2009, 11:55:04 UTC

I take it she teaches EALD too?

purrdence January 31 2009, 20:00:20 UTC

You probably will need district office approval, if it's a school group.

When 4 students and I won places on a paid trip by the Japanese government, we still needed District office approval, as well initally applied as a school group (even though the school or myself were not involved in the planning process).

purrdence January 31 2009, 20:01:00 UTC

When did they stop calling ESL ESL?

pooxs February 1 2009, 06:44:19 UTC

uhm... ESL still exists as a concept, but the actual subject/course of English in yr 11 and 12 has been called EALD since 06? 07? I'm not sure when it was first introduced, but 09 is it's first year of full implementation (as a replacement for the E and D code subjects).

ESL is still called that in lower school, with the addition of ESD (second dialect).

I think the main reason for ESL becoming EALD is because "second" is usually incorrect, and so the assumption of students having a "first" language is also fraught, because most students don't know any of the 2+ languages well enough to consider it a "first" (home) language

pooxs February 1 2009, 06:40:41 UTC

yeah, I figured we would given it is a school group and organised by the school. would be nice to have less hoops to jump through, though!