Student Diversity

EAL/D Teacher Resource

ACARA has developed the English as an Additional Language or Dialect Teacher Resource to support teachers as they develop teaching and learning programs in the Australian Curriculum: Foundation to Year 10 with EAL/D students.

The EAL/D Teacher Resource includes several related publications:

• EAL/D Overview and Advice
• EAL/D Learning Progression
• EAL/D annotated content descriptions: English Foundation to Year 10
• EAL/D annotated content descriptions: Mathematics Foundation to Year 10
• EAL/D annotated content descriptions: Science Foundation to Year 10
• EAL/D annotated content descriptions: History Foundation to Year 10
• Student Illustrations of the EAL/D Learning Progression

 The EAL/D Teacher Resource has been developed to:

• advise teachers about areas of the Australian Curriculum that EAL/D students may find challenging and why
• assist classroom teachers to identify where their EAL/D students are broadly positioned on a progression of English language learning
• help teachers understand students’ cultural and linguistic diversity and how this diversity can be used in the classroom
• provide examples of teaching strategies supportive of EAL/D students
• complement existing state and territory resources for teaching EAL/D
• provide an overview for teachers who may not have specialist training in the area of EAL/D or access to specialist EAL/D teachers.