The EAL Academy offers a great range of short training courses for the 2017/18 year

With courses designed specifically for those working with EAL learners – both new arrivals and more advanced – and with courses for all staff to ensure a whole school approach, we can help make a real difference for your EAL learners!

The EAL Academy brings together specialists in English as an additional language, ethnic minority achievement and the teaching of academic language, offering training which is firmly rooted in whole school improvement and empowering teachers and leaders to effect change throughout the school.

Please check our available courses below or download our course brochure for more information.

EAL Academy Courses Brochure 2017-18

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Online Course

Underpinning the EAL Academy's work is the belief that rather than posing a problem, EAL learners present schools with...

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Resources

As a support to our consultancy and training work, we have a developed a number of resources for teachers...

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Training

Our training takes many different forms: from the single day course attended by a teacher through to our in-class...

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Advanced English as an additional language learners

 This course addresses the needs of EAL learners who have been in the UK for some years or may have been born here and present as fluent in conversation, but...
  • London
  • Suitable for EAL Coordinators/Head Teachers/Heads of department/Teachers/Teaching assistants
  • Education level: Cross phase
  • 17 May 2018
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Promoting better outcomes for EAL students in the West Midlands: a free event

 Did you know that across the West Midlands EAL students do not achieve as well as they do in the rest of England? In some schools and areas outcomes are...
  • Birmingham
  • Suitable for EAL Coordinators/Head Teachers/Teachers/Teaching assistants
  • Education level: Cross phase
  • 25 April 2018
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Keep Calm and Don’t Panic! EAL for Teaching Assistants

 This one day course provides teaching assistants with step by step guidance on dealing with pupils new to English in the mainstream classroom. It addresses the full range of beginners...
  • Peterborough
  • Suitable for Teaching assistants
  • Education level: Cross phase
  • TBC - please complete the booking form to be placed on our waiting list for future dates
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Writing essays and longer answers at GCSE

 Teachers of English and Humanities subjects at GCSE level will be aware that writing essays and longer answers poses particular challenges to many of their students, not least those...
  • London, Peterborough
  • Suitable for English and Humanities teachers/Heads of department
  • Education level: Secondary
  • TBC - please complete the booking form to be placed on our waiting list for future dates
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Writing essays at A level

 Suitable for all teachers across the subject range at sixth form level, this EAL Academy course will give teachers the theoretical knowledge and the practical skills needed to develop the...
  • London
  • Suitable for EAL Coordinators/Heads of department/Teachers
  • Education level: Sixth Form
  • 5 October 2017
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Leading EAL in secondary schools

 This full day course aims to develop the leadership of EAL in secondary schools where there are increasing numbers of English as an additional language students. Focusing on a whole...
  • London
  • Suitable for EAL Coordinators/Managers/Teachers
  • Education level: Secondary
  • 05 June 2018
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EAL and secondary science

 Promoting language development for English as an additional language learners within the context of science is a challenge and understanding how the language of science works is critical. The session will...
  • London
  • Suitable for EAL Coordinators/Heads of department/Science teachers/Teaching assistants
  • Education level: Secondary
  • 1 March 2018
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EAL and secondary mathematics

 Teachers of mathematics to students for whom English is an additional language will recognise that the ability to read word problems and understand the specialised vocabulary of the maths lesson...
  • London
  • Suitable for EAL Coordinators/Heads of department/Maths teachers/Teaching assistants
  • Education level: Secondary
  • 1 March 2018