LiLAC

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LiLAC

• Graham Smith
• Assistant Director Business Development

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The plan

• Demographics
• Managing course delivery
• Evaluation
• Impact

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Growing numbers across England
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Increase in number of pupils with EAL since 2005
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Managing course delivery some questions

• School or LA level?
• Twilights or half days?
• Volunteers or nominees?
• A selection of staff or everybody?
• One tutor or two?
• Free or charged?

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What we have done (since February 2007)

• 8 courses in Islington (5 primary 3 secondary)
  for 170 staff
• Follow up consultancy in classrooms
• 7 courses (all secondary) for schools outside
  Islington (144 staff)
• One LA course (Coventry)
• Planned so far for 2009
• 5 Islington schools
• 7 schools in Brent, Haringey, Waltham Forest,
  Southwark, Barking Dagenham and Croydon
• (Six years of ESL in the Mainstream)

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Making it happen from training to training

• Ten trained tutors and top ups
• Part of a portfolio of longer and shorter courses
• Headteacher endorsement and joined up promotion
• Commissions
• Publicity
• not about beginners
• works beyond EAL
• Scheduling
• Contracting
• legally
• practically
• emotionally

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Making it happen the logistics

• School based
• Twilights and/or half/whole days (double sessions
  but not triple)
• Minimum and maximum numbers
• Simultaneous courses in same school
• Forward planning
• Transporting manuals
• Two tutors
• multiple voices
• quality assurance
• cover
• Technology that works
• hardware software (especially for DVDs)
• The impact of charging

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Evaluation

• What participants say
• Norwood Secondary School, Lambeth Your input has
  really developed EAL knowledge for our staff. An
  extremely useful and practical course. Thank you.
• Winton Primary School, Islington Fantastic.
  Really informative. Excellent trainers and lots
  of ideas. The content of the course was
  completely relevant to the pupils in our school.
• What London Challenge Adviser former HMI says
• An amazing transformation. Its the most rapid
  change from awful to excellent that I have ever
  seen.
• Song for LiLAC

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Impact attainment at Key Stage 2
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Impact attainment at GCSE