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Whilst Ministry of Education’s revisions to the Conditions of Assessment apply to achievement standards, many ESOL teachers will want to keep abreast of the soon to be released changes. These will be published on the TKI NCEA subject pages here  in the next few days.

On other communities

Secondary Literacy Online have an interesting, ongoing conversation on oracy and literacy.

On Primary ESOL Online Janet followed up my previous post

Is the identification of all English language learners and their learning needs prominent in your school wide documentation and policy?

by adding the following very pertinent questions

• How does your school identify your English language learners and whose role is it?

• Do they have enough knowledge of teaching English as a second language to be skilled at correctly identifying the students who would benefit from some additional support?  

• Are you confident that all ELLs have been identified and are getting appropriate language support?

These are hugely pertinent questions and I’d love to hear about how this is managed in your school.

What would you like to happen and does this actually happen?

This is the week to start sharing our ideas!

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