8th October 2016 EAL 9th Teachmeet

Glasgow City Council

Thank you to those that attended and shared!

Snowball—sharing ideas

To start we shared ideas of how to support EAL learners. To

do this we wrote down an idea, then scrunched up the paper

like a snowball. We then threw the ‘snowballs’ across the

room.

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etwinning – this is a safe, secure

collaboration space for young peo-

ple and teachers. Partner finding

forum is helpful to find links. Just

use the search function. There are

now template projects and spaces

to make it even easier.

Find out more at: https://www.etwinning.net/

ANGELA DE-BRITOS ¡BILINGUALISM DOES MATTER!

GARY SHIELDS USING ETWINNING

Angela talked about

the ‘Mother Tongue

Other Tongue’ pro-

ject. One category

is : ‘Mother Tongue’

where children write

poems in their

mother tongue. Last

year 36 different

languages were

represented. The

‘Other Tongue’ cate-

gory

incorporates the lan-

guage that children

are learning in

school.

At the end of the

project there was a

celebration event at

SECC.

For more infor-

mation check out:

http://

www.scilt.org.uk/

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KIRSTEN BARRETT

USING TWITTER

Kirsten and her

colleague Claire use

twitter

(@wearebilingual)

with their bilingual

learners in a variety

of schools.

Children are

encouraged to share

poems, songs, and

their work via twitter.

This gives the

children a voice to be

heard. There is also

opportunity to share

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Our next TeachMeet will be later in 2017—if you want to share make sure you let us know! Our next Teachmeet will be our 10th!

BRIAN GIBSON COLLABORATIVE GAMES

Brian shared some games to de-

velop vocabulary.

Stop the Bus grid – can be

played in first language and in

English.

Hangman is also a good

vocabulary revision game. Can

be played in pairs across all

subject areas.

SHAKUNTALA DATTA

TRANSITIONS

P7-S1

Transition.

Enhanced

transition with

Annette St.

Primary. She

worked with

groups of

children in P7

over 3 sessions

with each of the

3 groups –

survival game,

all about me

and storytelling

from my

culture. Then

final session –

S1 pupils + p7’s

did a quiz

together.

Highlighting

the importance

of links between

schools.

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PAULINE MCKAY DUAL LANGUAGE BOOKS

Pauline is a children’s

author and publisher.

On the day, she shared

her ‘Wee MacNessie’

books in a variety of

different languages,

and resources to go

with the books.

She also kindly donated a book

to our raffle.

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