1. ESOL for Schools
Gill Aitchison
Dundee BPSS/SQA

2. Aims of the workshop To encourage teachers to deliver ESOL in schools
To inspire teachers to use the new qualifications
To reassure teachers that support is available
Success criteria
Participants will :
Network with one new person or
Learn one new thing or
Change one thing they do in ESOL

3. Overview and Context SQA ESOL Who, When, How? Levels Administration
Course materials
Assessment
Verification
Your questions

4. SQA ESOL – http://www. sqa. org. uk www. sqasecure. org
SQA ESOL – (SQA coordinator) NQ
Access 2 to Higher
Course specifications
Unit specifications
National Assessment Bank of materials
(NAB)
Past papers
Internal and External Assessment Reports
CfE
N3, 4 and 5
Course specifications
Unit specifications
Unit Assessment Support Packs
(UASP)
Added value units
Sample question papers
Key messages

5. Who ? Who are the candidates? Who teaches? Who assesses? Who verifies?
Who is the administrator?

6. When and How? S4 – S6? As a course choice As a college link
As an after school class
Distance learning
Self access

7. NQ and CfE Levels Assessing levels ESOL Initial Assessment Pack
NQ timeline
CfE levels
Professional Focus Papers

8. National 3
National 4
National 5
Higher N6
(Aug 2014)
ESOL for Everyday Life
ESOL
in Context
Added value Unit
Performance
Speaking and Listening (30)
Course Assessment
Listening (20)
Reading and Writing (50)
‘simple’
‘straightforward’
‘detailed’
detailed and complex’

9. Administration SQA Coordinator Staff roles Information for candidates
Coursework
Assessments, prelims, question papers
Evidence Folder
Internal Verification
External Verification

10. CfE ESOL Course materials
educationscotland
ESOL National 4 and National 5 Support materials
New technology – use of ICT
New skills - note-taking
Don’t forget the ‘old’

11. Use of ICT- video clips National 5 Topic -Technology (Media)
Outcomes 1 and 2 - Package 3
Outcome 4 – Package 1
The One Ronnie
‘My Blackberry is not working’
http;//

12. New skills - Note-taking
A4 paper
Name and Date
Fold one third from left
Title and Summary
Key points/ Key questions
Notes
‘youtube’ demonstrations

13. Cornell notes template

14. Musical Instruments
All musical instruments can be divided into 2 basic groups; those which are played with the hands alone and those for which the hands and mouth are needed. Although other parts of the body may be used in addition, these are the 2 main groups.
The former group is made up of the keyboard, stringed and percussion instruments. Keyboard instruments include the piano and the accordion, the violin and cello are stringed instruments and percussion instruments include the drums and the triangle.
The latter group consists of brass instruments for example the trumpet and saxophone and woodwind instruments such as the flute and oboe.

15. Cornell notes completed

16. Don’t forget the old – SQA learning materials, past papers

17. Assessment National Qualifications National Assessment Bank materials
Exemplars –
NQ Internal Assessment Report
CfE qualifications
Route Maps through Assessment
UASPs
JETs
Key messages from Round 1 verification

18. N5– Speaking and Listening -Package 3 –Technology feedback to candidates
4.1
Using detailed structures and vocabulary
Used a range of structures for questions and answers to achieve the task
Used both general (extremely addicted, community)and specialist (google to find information, social media,robots) vocabulary
Internet has good points and bad points.
Facebook/Twitter
Advantages and disadvantages
Less jobs for people in the future as computers and robots do the work
4.2
Communicating sufficiently accurately and coherently to convey meaning
Conveyed opinions and ideas about internet
Very quiet voice
Internet ‘make the life much more easier’
4.3
Maintaining interaction
Initiated conversation
Aware of turn-taking
Responded to some points made by partners
Responses were relevant but did go slightly off task when talking about future
‘Which website is your favourite?’
Facebook –famous person that you like, fun if you follow them
Global warming etc
Show that you are listening to your partners by nodding, saying yes or uh huh if you agree or contradicting politely if you do not agree.
Improve accuracy when using comparatives and superlatives
Improve accuracy with tense and subject agreements
‘Internet make the life much more easier’ -Internet makes life much easier.

19. Verification
SQA Internal Verification guide for centres
Regular meetings
Minutes of meetings
Decisions made at meetings
Sampling of evidence
Evidence folder reflects verification
Central verification (nominees)

20. Any questions? Thank you for listening.

21. www.sqa.org.uk www.sqasecure.org.uk www.educationscotland.gov.uk
References
Youtube