EAPEducation

This series of blog posts grew out of my desire to introduce  Rosenshine's Principles of Education into EAL lessons. As Head of EAL/EAP, I spend much of my teaching day on in-class support and one-to-one instruction. The content of a lesson can change at short notice: one moment I might be helping a student with GCSE History, the next with Key Stage 3 Physics. That style of teaching makes it difficult to introduce the ten principles. This creates a particular challenge when trying to apply Rosenshine’s ten principles consistently. Principle 1 recommends beginning a lesson with a short review of previous learning. While this is straightforward when teaching a planned sequence of lessons, it becomes more difficult when I do not know which subject I will be supporting until I arrive in the classroom. I might walk into a History lesson without knowing what the student covered previously, making it difficult to revisit earlier learning before helping them tackle the task in front ...