1. Ways EALD teachers can work in DECD schools
The EALD Teacher
Ways EALD teachers
can work in
DECD schools

2. Why work as a DECD EALD Teacher?
Learn from students who have diverse life experiences
Enable other students to share these experiences and enhance the learning of others
Work with a range of students (eg migrants, international full-fee payers, students with a refugee experience)
Work in a range of contexts (eg Intensive English Language Centre, Intensive Secondary English Course)

3. Why work as a DECD EALD Teacher?
Deliver the learning in various ways (eg one to one, parallel teaching, direct teaching)
Mentor/Coach/Lead colleagues in a range of areas
Accelerate your career (eg TESMC tutor, literacy co-ordinator, international schools)
Satisfaction gained from working with students in need who have a desire to learn

4. The EALD Teacher
supports EALD students to develop the practices and language skills to achieve learning area outcomes and participate in schooling.
supports the use of data including LL Levels to inform programming, monitoring and reporting on EALD student progress.
works flexibly and collaboratively within the school in response to the diversity of EALD students and to maximise the support available to them.

5. Well being and engagement
The EALD Teacher
Well being and engagement
Language development

6. Key ways of working
Work strategically to establish supportive and inclusive school practices
Plan and deliver EALD programs
Collaborate with mainstream teachers
Provide leadership in EALD data management

7. Communication and relationships
Work strategically to establish inclusive supportive school practices
Plan and deliver EALD programs
Collaborate with mainstream teachers
Provide leadership in EALD data management
Communication and relationships
communicate your role within your school
engage actively with school leadership and learning teams
build relationships with a wide range of staff members
propose initiatives
be proactive

8. Work strategically to establish inclusive supportive school practices
Plan and deliver EALD programs
Collaborate with mainstream teachers
Provide leadership in EALD data management
Inclusive practices
transition and enrolment processes inclusive of non English speaking parents/caregivers
counselling processes sensitive to issues of resettlement and cultural difference
structures in place to hear and respond to EALD student voice
celebrations of diversity eg Harmony day
use of bilingual services and Community Liaison Officers for students and parents/caregivers
use of community agencies
reflective practices which create safe environments

9. Work strategically to establish supportive school practices
Plan and deliver EALD programs
Collaborate with mainstream teachers
Provide leadership in EALD data management
Supportive programs
programs that support literacy and language development eg
homework centres
EALD support program
curriculum offerings that meet student needs eg EALD as a subject

10. Plan and deliver EALD programs
Work strategically to establish supportive school practices
Plan and deliver EALD programs
Collaborate with mainstream teachers
Provide leadership in EALD data management
Plan and deliver EALD programs
establish the EALD student cohort
negotiate and deliver EALD support program and / or direct instruction
use EALD informed pedagogy

11. Identify the EALD student cohort
Work strategically to establish inclusive supportive school practices
Plan and deliver EALD programs
Collaborate with mainstream teachers
Provide leadership in EALD data management
Identify the EALD student cohort
Yes
Has the student achieved the outcomes expected of that year level
No support required
Is he / she of non-English speaking background?
Is Standard Australian English an issue?
EALD
learner No
Does he / she speak an Indigenous language or Aboriginal English?

12. Prioritise students in need of EALD support
Work strategically to establish supportive school practices
Plan and deliver EALD programs
Collaborate with mainstream teachers
Provide leadership in EALD data management
Prioritise students in need of EALD support
establish who are the EALD students
collect data about the students
prioritise where the need lies
determine how EALD and bilingual support should be delivered

13. EALD informed curriculum pedagogy
Work strategically to establish supportive school practices
Plan and deliver EALD programs
Collaborate with mainstream teachers
Provide leadership in EALD data management
EALD informed curriculum pedagogy
functional model of language
Language and Literacy Levels to program, monitor, report
teaching learning cycle
explicit about cultural and linguistic understandings
scaffold towards independence

14. Direct teaching of EALD as a subject
Work strategically to establish supportive school practices
Plan and deliver EALD programs
Collaborate with mainstream teachers
Provide leadership in EALD data management
Direct teaching of EALD as a subject
EALD teacher has full responsibility for EALD as a subject including planning, implementation, assessment, reporting
generally occurs in secondary schools where there are sufficient numbers of EALD students to form classes

15. Direct teaching in senior secondary
Work strategically to establish supportive school practices
Plan and deliver EALD programs
Collaborate with mainstream teachers
Provide leadership in EALD data management
Direct teaching in senior secondary
direct teaching of ESL at Stage 1 & 2 (using Tier 1 funding)
EALD teacher has responsibility for meeting SACE requirements

16. Direct teaching of new arrivals in regional schools
Work strategically to establish supportive school practices
Plan and deliver EALD programs
Collaborate with mainstream teachers
Provide leadership in EALD data management
Direct teaching of new arrivals in regional schools
regional schools receiving new arrivals can set aside part of the day for “intensive English”
teacher provides support for English language, settlement, integration in other mainstream classes
requires collaboration and planning with school leadership and teachers

17. Collaborate and share practices with mainstream teachers
Work strategically to establish supportive school practices
Plan and deliver EALD programs
Collaborate with mainstream teachers
Provide leadership in EALD data management
Collaborate and share practices with mainstream teachers
to build capacity of all teachers to provide supportive teaching / learning programs for EALD students

18. By supporting planning of teaching/learning assessment programs
Work strategically to establish supportive school practices
Plan and deliver EALD programs
Collaborate with mainstream teachers
Provide leadership in EALD data management
By supporting
planning of teaching/learning assessment programs
resource development to address the language demands of the subject
assessment and reporting
understandings of students’ Language and Literacy Level and background

19. informal conversations mentoring planning meetings
Work strategically to establish supportive school practices
Plan and deliver EALD programs
Collaborate with mainstream teachers
Provide leadership in EALD data management
Through
informal conversations
mentoring
planning meetings
staff meeting presentations
promoting, supporting and engaging in EALD professional development

20. EALD support modes in-class support withdrawal parallel teaching
Work strategically to establish supportive school practices
Plan and deliver EALD programs
Collaborate with mainstream teachers
Provide leadership in EALD data management
EALD support modes
in-class support
withdrawal
parallel teaching
mentoring
team teaching

21. Work strategically to establish supportive school practices
Plan and deliver EALD programs
Collaborate with mainstream teachers
Provide leadership in EALD data management
In-class support
EALD teacher works with EALD students to support them with the tasks and language demands of the lesson
allows EALD students to work in class but degree of intervention of EALD teacher may be limited
EALD teacher may also support other students
promotes whole school approach to EALD support
joint planning is essential to understand the students’ and teacher's needs but often occurs informally

22. Work strategically to establish supportive school practices
Plan and deliver EALD programs
Collaborate with mainstream teachers
Provide leadership in EALD data management
Team teaching
EALD teacher provides language specific lessons in mainstream classes to all the students
provides modeling/professional development for mainstream teacher in explicit language teaching
may limit degree of targeted intervention for EALD students unless mainstream teacher is able to take on this support role
joint planning is essential for determining what the EALD teacher will deliver within the whole unit of work

23. Work strategically to establish supportive school practices
Plan and deliver EALD programs
Collaborate with mainstream teachers
Provide leadership in EALD data management
Withdrawal
EALD teacher withdraws EALD students for an individual or a sequence of lessons to support specific skill development
allows for focus on specific language needs of individuals within a secure environment
can be a good use of resources when a small number of students with similar needs are scattered over several classes
joint planning with the mainstream teacher is essential although it often happens informally

24. Work strategically to establish supportive school practices
Plan and deliver EALD programs
Collaborate with mainstream teachers
Provide leadership in EALD data management
Parallel teaching
EALD students are taught same content as classmates by the EALD teacher in a separate location
EALD teacher responsible for assessing and reporting on learning of the students
allows EALD students to work in smaller groups
initial joint planning with mainstream teacher/s is essential

25. Work strategically to establish supportive school practices
Plan and deliver EALD programs
Collaborate with mainstream teachers
Provide leadership in EALD data management
Mentoring
formal mentoring eg focus teacher supporting site based participants of an EALD course
informal mentoring eg modelling language focused lessons, providing advice during joint planning, teaching and assessment

26. EALD data management provide leadership collect data
Work strategically to establish supportive school practices
Plan and deliver EALD programs
Collaborate with mainstream teachers
Provide leadership in EALD data management
EALD data management
provide leadership
collect data
ensure accuracy of data
access and use data

27. Work strategically to establish supportive school practices
Plan and deliver EALD programs
Collaborate with mainstream teachers
Provide leadership in EALD data management
Provide leadership
collaborate with school leadership to establish a plan for moving to a whole school approach to collecting and using EALD data eg Levels
collaborate with staff to establish processes for collecting and analysing EALD data eg for collecting student texts and assigning a Level

28. explain the processes to other staff at staff meetings and informally
Work strategically to establish supportive school practices
Plan and deliver EALD programs
Collaborate with mainstream teachers
Provide leadership in EALD data management
explain the processes to other staff at staff meetings and informally
establish quality processes for accuracy of data
be familiar with the capabilities of EDSAS and other software to collect and analyse data
use school processes to communicate the data and implications

29. Accuracy of data be familiar with Levels attend moderation sessions
Work strategically to establish supportive school practices
Plan and deliver EALD programs
Collaborate with mainstream teachers
Provide leadership in EALD data management
Accuracy of data
be familiar with Levels
attend moderation sessions
be a driving force in establishing school based moderation processes

30. Access and use data use EDSAS and other software functions to
Work strategically to establish supportive school practices
Plan and deliver EALD programs
Collaborate with mainstream teachers
Provide leadership in EALD data management
Access and use data
use EDSAS and other software functions to
access student data
analyse data
monitor student progress

31. Monitor student progress
Work strategically to establish supportive school practices
Plan and deliver EALD programs
Collaborate with mainstream teachers
Provide leadership in EALD data management
Monitor student progress
set targets
track Levels
match with other data sets eg NAPLAN, attendance
use data to inform practice and school provision