Guest Speakers

Friday 24 June 2022 at 5 - 6pm

Zaina Aljumma

Zaina Aljumma is a Syrian refugee who is based in Wales. She is a Special Education

 Needs/ Additional Education Needs (SEN/ALN Dyslexia) masters degree student. Also, she is a professional who works for Adult Learning Wales as a curriculum development coordinator and a Wellbeing and Health Stream coordinator.

Before coming to the UK, Zaina was an Additional Learning Needs teacher who worked at the Child Evaluation and Teaching Centre in Kuwait. In 2017, she was awarded the best teacher for learning difficulties in Kuwait by the Princess of Kuwait Shikha Al-subah. 

Zaina's second award was the Audio Production Award in the UK in November 2021. This was for the podcast "We are VOICES" - the British Red Cross. Zaina was one of the producers of this project.
 
Since Zaina's arrival to the UK she has volunteered with many charities:
- The British Red Cross (VOICES Network Intern)
- The Welsh Refugee Council (interpreter and support worker)
- Oasis Cardiff (ESOL for Afghan Resettlement Programme)
- Lliswerry Primary School (EAL and ALN supporter)
- Life Seekers Aid (Trustee)
  
English language tutors are acutely aware that identifying learning difficulties among ESOL learners is challenging. With reference to findings in her current Masters research, Zaina will discuss learning difficulties among ESOL learners, particularly Dyslexia, and some of the early recommendations to manage learning difficulties in the classroom.

Saturday 25 June 2022 at 9 - 10am

Mary Osmaston, Jennie Turner and Keeley Donati

Ofsted – what does the new framework mean for ESOL?

In Ofsted’s Education Inspection Framework (EIF), the focus has shifted to place a greater emphasis on curriculum and long-term learning. This is good because focusing on what to teach and how effectively students learn matches well to what we aim to do in ESOL.  The EIF was launched in 2019, but is less familiar than it might be, due to the pause in inspections during the pandemic.  The panel will talk about what inspectors are looking for and how this relates to effective ESOL teaching and learning, as well as what an inspection actually consists of and how to prepare for one.

Our panel has a range of experience of inspecting, being inspected and preparing for inspection.

Profile of panel

	Mary Osmaston is an experienced ESOL teacher, teacher trainer and manager as well as a part time Ofsted inspector.  She has inspected ESOL under the new Ofsted framework and supports organisations in quality improvement and preparing for inspections.
	Jennie Turner is an experienced ESOL teacher and manager.  She has considerable experience of Ofsted inspections of FE colleges an recently led her team through an inspection on the new framework.
	Keeley Donati has just under 20 years' experience of working in Adult Community Learning - initially as an ESOL teacher and then as manager of a range of curriculum areas, including maths, English, ESOL and teacher training. Currently Assistant Principal, Curriculum & Quality, and Ofsted nominee at Thurrock Adult Community College.

 

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