Category: Numeracy for ESOL
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Demands: But wait, I’m an ESOL teacher…!
Mapping the demands for teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) If you are not an ESOL teacher – someone who teaches refugees and migrants with little or no English – you can skip this section. But if you are an ESOL teacher, and you teach a course that is funded by the TEC…
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Mapping the Demands of a TESOL Course Using the Learning Progressions
If you are a TESOL teacher, but you teach a course that is funded by the TEC you might find yourself having to complete the NCALNE (Voc) literacy and numeracy professional development. And one of the things that you’ll have to do is demonstrate that you know how to identify and map the context-specific literacy and numeracy…
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Numeracy For ESOL Teachers: You Might Not Even Realise You’re Doing It
This might seem like a challenge. But it’s not. The real challenge is to think about what ESOL teachers already do through a different lens. If you teach English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) or have Non-English Speaking Background (NESB) learners you might be surprised to realise that you are possibly already embedding numeracy…

