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TITLE
how to make your EAL admissions meeting a success
DATE(S):
14 July 2009 9.30 - 12.00
VENUE:
Bestwood Lodge Hotel, Arnold (near Nottingham),
DETAILS:
Nottinghamshire are hosting a training event on the theme ‘how to make your EAL admissions meeting a success’. The purpose of the event will be to consider the requirements of a successful admissions meeting with reference to the NAEP, and to demonstrate the interactive Admissions Tool.
There are nine places remaining for this half-day event, which Nottinghamshire are opening up to delegates from other authorities, at the price of £35 per person (or £45 to include a 2 course lunch). If you or members of your EAL team would like to attend, please contact Koni Rakhit by 30/06/09.
Koni Rakhit
Manager of the New Arrivals Team
Ethnicity, Culture and Achievement Service
Children and Young People's Services
Nottinghamshire County Council
A national conference taking place in Southampton in July will explore the benefits for children and teenagers of being able to speak a language other than English. Although 300 languages are spoken in London alone, many young people who speak another language with their family are unaware of the benefits that their language skills can bring them, both now and later in life.
This conference celebrates the outcomes of the Our Languages project, a 2 year DCSF-funded project from a consortium of CILT, the National Centre for Languages, the National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education, the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and the School Development Support Agency. All delegates will receive a free Our Languages toolkit on forging successful partnerships between mainstream and complementary schools and free CDS offering lesson plans, schemes of work and resources across a range of languages
Fee
£75.00 full fee
£25.00 for delegates applying from Complementary schools (limited places available).
The theme NALDIC's 17th Annual Conference is Integrated Language, Integrated Curriculum and NALDIC is delighted that Professor Ofelia Garcia of New York University has agreed to be our keynote speaker for this event. Our Conference Discussant will be Professor Viv Edwards Director, National Centre for Language and Literacy. The conference will consider first and second language development opportunities and practice within the curriculum, meshing together strands related to English language development and development of languages other than English
The cost of conference has again been held at £90 for members and £125 for non members.
This year we intend to host afternoon seminars as well as providing an opportunity for colleagues to present 'posters. These are a visual display of research, teaching ideas and/ or materials developed by the presenter. This is an interactive session in which the audience moves about among the displays and the presenters are on hand to explain features of their displays and answer questions. The deadline for our call for papers is July 1 2009 and for our call for poster presentations is 1st September 2009. If you are interested in exhibiting or presenting at this event, please contact events@naldic.org.uk
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