English Language Support for Schools with NonChinese Speaking NCS Students

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English Language Support for Schools with
Non-Chinese Speaking (NCS) Students

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Aspects and Rationale

• Aims
• Enhance the professional development for English
  teachers working with NCS students and
• Improve literacy levels of students in reading
  and writing through catering to learner diversity

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Objectives

• To work closely with the school personnel in
• developing a School-based Curriculum
• which focus on
• Textbook adaptation
• Teaching of reading through the five strategies
• Teaching writing through shared writing and
  process writing

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Stages and Suggested Three-year Timeline 2009-2012
2009 -2010
2010 -2011
2011-2012

• Term 1 and 2
• Focus on
• Shared Reading
• Guided Reading
• Textbook Adaptation /Integration
• Writing workshops integrating strategies for
  language arts and reading
• Home Reading

• Term 1
• Focus on
• Phonological awareness
• Shared Reading
• Guided Reading (setting up)
• Textbook Adaptation/Integration
• Home Reading

• Term 2
• Focus on
• Shared Reading
• Guided Reading
• Textbook Adaptation /Integration
• Writing workshops integrating strategies for
  language arts and reading
• Home Reading

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Programme Materials

• Design and development of school-based lessons
  integrating the four skills
• Big Books and Guided Readers
• (to be loaned to schools as part of the Pilot)
• Big Books reading will be part of the Reading
  Lessons to facilitate the teaching of reading
  strategies
• Guided Readers will be matched to the students
  reading levels and used as Home Readers only
  after it has been covered in the Reading Lessons

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Programme Materials (contd.)

• Matching Students to Book Levels Kit
• Parents Workshop
• Others (1 copy per P4 student)
• My Reading Record
• My Word Bank
• Home Readers

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Mode of collaboration with the Seed schools

• Teacher Secondment one secondee per year, three
  LETs over three years
• Environment storage for Big Books and Guided
  Readers and notice board for display of
  students work

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Commitment for Joining

• School-based Curriculum Development
• Plan and develop a school-based curriculum
• Schedule timetabled co-planning meetings for at
  least an hour per week on a regular basis
• Allow teachers to attend CPD, cluster and
  school-based PD workshops

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Commitment for Joining

• Deployment of teachers
• Deployment of teachers (LET/NET) to co-teach in
  some lessons (a minimum of one double lesson)
• Identify a literacy coordinator who will be
  teaching in the programme

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Commitment for Joining

• Material adaptation
• Adapt the textbook
• Not to purchase additional P1 readers

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Commitment for Joining

• Grouping and space
• Facilitate students to sit and work in groups
• Allocate adequate and accessible storage area for
  big books and guided readers
• Reserve space for teaching resources and notice
  boards to establish a language rich environment
  and for display of students work in the classroom

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Commitment for Joining

• Budget allocation
• Allocate budget for printing and laminating of
  materials and resources
• Purchase big book stand and flip chart

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Personnel involved in the Programme

• Secondee
• Coordinator/EPC
• A group of open-minded P.1 English Teachers
• P.1 students
• NET
• Principal, PSMCD, EPC
• Parents

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Thank you!