English as an Additional Language Training, Consultancy, Online Learning & Resources

EAL advisory

Interim leadership to support a school in transitioning from Special Measures to Good

• All aspects of leading and managing the Primary School. • Responsible for the ‘flagship’ site including planning for relocation, marketing and enrolment target setting • Actively involved in the primary school council and assemblies. • Cover teaching to release teachers to fulfil other duties and to fulfil my desire to continue working with the children alongside my leadership role. Major achievements include: • Piloting and introducing one-to-one iPads across the entire Primary school • Initiated primary school development planning involving all members of the community (students, parents, teachers, leadership and board). This successful system evolved from primary to be used by all five International School of Milan sites • Addressing and supporting the involvement mother tongue in the curriculum as well as delivering training in effective differentiation for EAL learners for teachers and the leadership teacher • Restructuring the leadership team to incorporate the inclusion coordinator and a teacher representative • Developing the status and involvement of school council through regular meetings and collaborative goal setting resulting in significant student centred decision making e.g. student essential agreements and student led talent show

• All aspects of leading and managing the Primary School. Liaising with the Headmaster (who delegated and empowered me with a virtually autonomous role) to ensure the success, growth and development of the Primary School. • Primary School Strategic Planning (also input into Whole-School Strategic Planning); ensuring mission and vision is developed through good action planning and evaluation and including the creations of staff committees and projects, chairing meetings, writing handbooks • Recruitment, induction, nurturing (including PD), leadership of a team of staff including developing a middle and senior management structure • Student progress (assessing and reporting procedures), welfare and discipline • Parent involvement including fortnightly newsletters, family learning, PTFA and parent meetings • Curriculum development including English national curriculum and IPC, curriculum audits, timetabling, school days design, interventions • Chair of the CIS Accreditation Steering Committee • Acting Director in absence of Director • Ongoing teaching commitments predominantly in Year 2 and Foundation Stage The above represents only part of the overall responsibility of the roleMajor achievements include: • Increasing the roll in Primary from the school opening with 80 to 800 in five years Successfully building & leading a team of 47 teachers, 34 teaching assistants & 16 support staff • Successfully planning & implementing a full range of strategic development documents, policies, procedures entirely from scratch • Successfully establishing curriculum, assessment and reporting systems • Successfully implementing communications systems with parents including community days, carnivals and focus weeks

• Senior Management Team member • Coordinator for English as an Additional Language, Parental Involvement and Early literacy • English national curriculum Class Teacher (Year 5, Year 6 and Year 3-6 support) • Developed weekly parent counseling meetings and on the setting up and running of strengthening families courses, ICT courses, drugs workshops, healthy eating programmes and anything that will be set up within the school for the parents/community with the extended schools co-rdinator • Ensured provision was available for under achieving pupils in Literacy including intervention programmes for children with EAL (English as an Additional Language). Programmes included Early Literacy support, Additional Literacy support, Further Literacy Support, Booster Literacy and Numeracy at year 6, Catch Up reading programmes The above represents only part of the overall responsibility of the role Major achievements include: • Ensured provision was made for under-achieving students across the school in Literacy (including intervention programmes in EAL) • Trained Teaching Assistants & Support Teachers in teaching early literacy • Established and ran an EAL department • Wrote and implemented a 12 week induction programme for beginner and intermediate EAL learners • Created an English as an additional language library • Developed parent involvement with parents who spoke little to no English through meetings, PTA, • Applied for funding, promoted and successfully launched opportunities for parental involvement through courses such a ESOL for parents, parent volunteering, Family Learning, council meetings for parents, ‘Family Day’ (fete) • Writing a script and organizing the production of a video to help parents understanding of the school and how they can support their children at home. The above is a sample of many of the achievements I experienced

Main responsibilities include the following: • Class Teacher for five classes of students aged 7-16 years • Writing examinations & coordinating schemes of work for Year 8 • Running English-based projects through the Internet & word processing packages Major achievements include: • Learning to speak Thai to an advanced level • Improving my teaching skills & establishing a motivation to pursue a full-time teaching career • Setting up and managing four summer schools over March/April 2000 and 2001 as the Director of Out of Class Activities for 100 children per course.