The Bell Foundation and EAL Nexus websites have been amalgamated

The 150+ resources, guidance and “Great Ideas” from EAL Nexus can now be found in the same place as the EAL Assessment Framework for Schools and digital Tracker, training opportunities, research, news and blogs.  Through combining the expertise, evidence, tools and thought leadership from these two sites, the aim is to provide you with an enhanced, seamless and more complete experience. All the resources and tools are free. You just need to register to access them.

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Great Ideas
The twenty Great Ideas pages provide teachers with the rationale behind using the various tried and tested approaches and strategies recommended for use with everyone in the class, but in particular, with learners who use English as an Additional Language.  Each Great Idea includes links to relevant resources and four Great Ideas include short guidance videos.  Each week additional Great Ideas videos will be posted on the website.

Home Learning

This section of the site includes advice, guidance and resources for teachers working with learners and their parents/carers.  For example, the parental involvement section includes flyers, available in 17 of the commonly spoken languages in English schools, which schools can give to parents so that they are able to help their child(ren) to learn. Find out more here about the guidance.

Continuing Professional Development

The Foundation is developing a national calendar of training – online courses, face-to-face courses being held at regional Centres of Expertise, as well as the very popular series of webinars. There is a webinar running in November. Click here to book a free webinar place.

Webinars from the NALDIC and CCT partnership

In September, NALDIC was delighted to announce it is working in partnership with The Chartered College of Teaching to deliver termly online training webinars that are open to both NALDIC and CCT members.

At each event, there will be a presentation by an expert in one element of EAL teaching and learning, followed by time for audience members to reflect on key messages in breakout rooms before they return for a plenary session.

In the first of these, which took place on October 6, 2020, Naomi Flynn (NALDIC Chair of Events) introduced the audience to some research-to-practice ideas for great EAL pedagogy.

Attendees appreciated the opportunity to ask questions of both Naomi and of each other, in what was a fruitful exchange of ideas among like-minded practitioners and researchers.

Members can view the first recorded webinar on our website here.