Course Length: 4 hours (access is 365 days from date of enrolment)

Course Creators: Dr Jennifer Hammond and Maya Cranitch AM

This course is the second in a series of three, comprising the PETAA Program: Supporting EAL/D Students in our Classroom. Click here to book the full program!

Program Planning to Support EAL/D Students, created by Jennifer Hammond and Maya Cranitch, builds on principles of high challenge and high support for EAL/D students to address the importance of program planning processes that are principled and collaborative. It provides examples of well-planned programs that are characterised by clear purposes for learning; and by sequences of learning that address the needs of EAL/D students.

Learning Outcomes:

• Develop processes of systematic and collaborative program planning that build on shared expertise of class and EAL/D teachers
• Organise content into coherent well-sequenced learning and teaching programs
• Identify explicit, challenging and achievable learning goals for all students
• Establish clear purposes for learning, and share these purposes with students
  

Who should participate?

• Teachers F-6 with EAL/D students in their classes, including new arrivals
• Literacy Leaders
• EAL/D Coordinators
• Principals, Deputy Principals and Assistant Principals with EAL/D students in their schools
• Heads of Curriculum, Instructional Leadership and Teaching and Learning 

About your course creators:

Dr Jennifer Hammond has a PhD in Applied Linguistics and has worked at various Australian universities over the past 40 years as lecturer, senior lecturer and Associate Professor in the fields of language and literacy education and research design. Her research has addressed the educational needs of students for whom English is an Additional Language (EAL students) and the nature programs that are designed to meet the their needs. Dr Hammond's research has also addressed programs that support newly arrived EAL and refugee students in Australian schools.

Maya Cranitch (AM) has had many years of experience at Australian Catholic University (ACU) and now at the University of Sydney, lecturing in TESOL, literacy and Community Languages education. She has worked with the NSW Department of Education on developing the Teaching Refugees in My Classroom course.

What else do I need to know?

• This PL course is self-paced and unmoderated. All participants have access to materials for 365 days from the date they register.
• This course addresses standards 1.3.2 and 1.5.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers. 

*all tickets must be booked at the same time for the discount to apply