NOW FULLY BOOKED
Friday 28th November - This event is now closed and fully booked
The Yorkshire and Humberside Branch of NATECLA is excited to announce details of its forthcoming day conference -
ESOL Connections.
This leading event in the ESOL CPD calendar will bring together ESOL professionals at every stage in their career for a day of practical workshops, networking opportunities and news from across the sector.
A resources exhibition will also be available.
Price (lunch included)
- Members: £15 (early booking until 24 November), £20 (standard)
- Non-members: £25 (early booking until 24 November), £30 (standard)
Speaker & workshop titles
This exciting event will allow you to take part in a number of practical workshops, networking with ESOL colleagues and browse our resources exhibition. Lunch will also be provided:
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10:15 - 10:45 - Keynote session (Claire Jackson, Migrant English Support Hub). Clare tells the story of how ESOL provision in Leeds is moving from being uncoordinated to being centralised, with information about classes available to everyone.
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10:45 - 12:00 - Workshop 1 (choices below)
- 12:00 - 12:45 - Lunch, networking and exhibition
- 14:00 - 14:30 - Plenary session: Global coursebooks: helpful scaffold or debilitating crutch? (Heather Buchanan, Leeds Beckett University). How do different teachers view global coursebooks? How do they exploit them? This talk will present the results of a small-scale research project on this topic and offer some practical tips on how to bring your coursebook to life.
- 14:30 - 14:45 - Conference evaluation and Ruth Hayman Trust raffle prize draw.
16-18 ESOL can be described as rewarding, positively challenging and thought provoking. Some have even said teaching this age group can test any practitioner’s ability to balance the pace and interest to enable them to progress and reach their potential. This workshop is designed to share some strategies that I have used over the years that I have enabled me to maintain the balance. You will get a chance to complete some practical activities that you can incorporate in your own lessons as well as a chance to share your own experiences.
Caroleen is a Literacy and ESOL specialist and teacher trainer working at Kirklees College and Wakefield College. She has experience of working with a variety of age groups in community, workplace and college settings.
How do we support ESOL learners and each other in becoming digital users? This will be a virtual session. The workshop leader will be based in the Wirrel. Please ensure you bring your own device (phone, tablet, laptop) to take part in this exciting session.
Get involved in volunteering, Matthew Henderson (St Vincent Support Centre)
Matthew will discuss the benefits and reasons for volunteering at St Vincent as well as the recruitment process and policies and procedures which should be in place. The workshop will include a short presentation followed by a role play and interactive group discussion.
>> Please bring your own devices (laptops or tablets)
The workshop will include: a brief update on the ESOL Nexus project; an introduction to the main features of the rebuilt website; a look at how the resources on the site might be integrated into the curriculum; and an invitation to discuss how the site could better involve both ESOL teachers and students.
>> Download the printable programme
English spelling is not crazy!, Mary Osmaston - ** FULLY BOOKED **
There are always some students who struggle with spelling, and sometimes we as teachers struggle to help them. Is it a case of providing plenty of practice and teaching some memory strategies, or do they really need to understand something of how English spelling works? In this workshop you will stretch your own awareness of spelling patterns by trying out some classroom activities, and then look at how you can use these ‘discovery’ methods with your own students at a variety of levels. This workshop was highly rated at National Conference 2014.
This workshop challenges assumptions about the nature of community ESOL provision as ‘peripheral’. New research initiated and designed within the super -diverse community of Burngreave has found that as adult students progress in the classroom, their ability to communicate independently increases substantially, supported by English language provision which is linked to services and embedded in the community. The research surveys a range of functions from shopping to supporting children in school to using an interpreter and has involved adult students at every level from design to analysis. This collaboration has enriched the survey data with insights from the student perspective.
This workshop was highly rated at National Conference 2014.
Developing Teachers Training Ideas Will Nash
Struggling to think of ways to keep in-house teacher development fresh and relevant? Sometimes. Hard to get people to attend training sessions? Can be. Like to reflect on and share training ideas that have worked for you? I would. This facilitated workshop will explore some practical examples of in-house teacher development strategies for us to try in our own institutions. Open to all in a participatory workshop format - we can reflect on what worked for us as a ‘trainer’ OR as a ‘trainee’