HLS have worked with international teachers every summer, and this August was no exception. Two Italian schools sent over 20 teachers to Dublin for a long course covering the teaching of CLIL subjects. CLIL stands for ‘content, language, integrated learning’, essentially meaning that teachers are required to teach some of their subject content through the medium of another language; in this case English. The teachers we worked with represented a range of subjects, including Maths, Physics, History, Computer Science and English.
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This term has seen the development of our training in Jersey, linking with the EAL Head of Service and the EAL Team in Jersey. The partnership has launched with a series of 10 webinars during this term. The sessions were wide-ranging with topics from TA training on ‘Key Strategies to support EAL Learners’ to ‘Developing Grammatical Accuracy in the Writing of EAL Learners’. Participants on the TA training commented that the webinar was helpful and easy to understand and provided “lots of examples to put into practice straight away.”  The ‘Critical Reading’ and ‘Grammatical Accuracy’ sessions provided “Great activities that
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