Gaylene price consultant
Teaching English Language Learners in New Zealand
Welcome to ‘Teaching English Language Learners in New Zealand’. This is a website developed by Gaylene Price, a primary teacher and specialist in teaching language and literacy to culturally and linguistically diverse learners in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Welcome
I still remember my own feelings of inadequacy and fear when I first started teaching many years ago. It was clear to me that I needed to learn more about the linguistic and cultural knowledge of my students and to develop more specific teaching knowledge and skills. From this worry, a life-long interest has developed. My beliefs about teaching may have changed, but they remain ultimately underpinned by a focus on equity and improvement. I am indebted to the role education has in creating opportunities, in lifting spirits and in believing the impossible. I hope you feel like this too! So, we may have swings in policy and focus, but for me professional and personal joy comes from working with bilingual/multilingual students and their families.
Teaching Ideas
Check out some tips and ideas for ESOL teachers.
Consultancy & Courses
Learn more about my consultancy services and the courses I offer.
Purpose
The purpose of this site is to offer teaching ideas and strategies for teachers and paraprofessionals so that students are taught by professionals with informed and strong pedagogy. There are a wide range of ideas and principles that are recommended for teaching culturally and linguistically diverse learners, but those that I will particularly highlight are
- Building translanguaging practices and opportunities
- Understanding pathways of additional language learning
- Sustaining and enhancing heritage and home languages
- Knowing about and teaching the language features of the English language
- Designing cognitively engaging and relevant curriculum
- Using a ‘response to intervention’ framework for coherence
- Working collaboratively
In this website you will find articles, ideas for teaching, lesson plans and activities, links to key resources and a blog to participate in. It is for us all, a community of practitioners.
Experiences
Class teacher across all ages of the primary school, including working as an ESOL specialist
Pre-service lecturer
A facilitator of Professional learning and Development (PLD)
Co-national leader of the ‘Accelerating Learning in Literacy’ (ALL) project
Writer of Ministry of Education support materials – The English Language Learning Progressions professional development modules, ‘Selections’ teaching resources, a DVD ‘Making Language and Learning Work 3’
Advisor for ‘Dual languages texts and resources’ and the English Language Learning Progressions Pathway document.
Leader and developer of ‘Team Approach to Language Learners‘ (TALL), a Ministry of Education professional development project
University of Canterbury – Master of Teaching and Learning EDTL904 ‘Scaffolding teacher learning: Examining teacher practice and the professional development process of teachers with culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) learners.’
Contact me
I am interested in policy and the design of languages/ESOL support teaching. Contact me if your ESOL/literacy team needs support in these areas:
- ESOL (English for speakers of other languages) programme design
- Languages acquisition
- Literacy and English Language Learners
- Oral language
- Assessment and pathways of progress
- Planning and teaching sequences
- Coaching and mentoring
Get in touch.
