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Supporting a Multi Lingual School Community
through the delivery of inclusive and high quality MLE: Teachers, Pedagogy and Innovation
• ລາວ • Bahasa Indonesia • Bahasa Melayu • Deutsch • Español • Français • Filipino • Ăğţ ŀ Ęŀ ¯ • Nederlands • Norsk • Tiếng Việt • 中文 • 한글 • 日本語
Workshop Overview – Where we come from? – What we aimed to achieve? – What we have done? – Challenges we faced – Strategies for effectiveness, sustainability and
quality – Looking into the future
“[…] cultural diversity is as necessary for humankind as biodiversity is for nature. In this sense, it is the common heritage of humanity and should be recognized and affirmed for the
benefit of present and future generations.” UNESCO, Universal Declaration on Cultural
Diversity – Article 1 - 2001
Host Language
International – Mindedness
Cultural Diversity
Cultural Identity
Opportunities / Pathways / Futures
How?
Acknowledging that MT is a Language A
Establishing a Mother Tongue programme that is valued to an equal degree as all other subjects
Ensuring accessibility to Mother Tongue through the a structures of a school
Implementation
• SY08-09 MOVING CAMPUS School Building its awareness of multilingualism and cultural diversity MT as ASA • SY09-10 PREPARATION FOR MT PROGRAMMES Communication: meet the communities Educate the communities: MT as ASA Surveys Introduction of Lao
surveys
Implementation
• SY10-11 & 11-12 BUILDING MT PROGRAMMES Communication and education: Parents motivation, meet the communities, phone, letter, Embassy Practices: Taught Curriculum / Assessed Curriculum / MT Tutors support / reporting
Supporting a Multi Lingual School Community
Main Challenge
Challenges
Building awareness and understanding of the importance of maintaining children’s mother tongue within the school community
Challenges / Strategies Accessibility and retention
• MT Teachers • Support materials
Curriculum Understandings • MT Teachers / Parents / Students
Cultural norms
Cohesive team
Equality of access
Examples of Strategies • Admission Processes Language profile Building networks Network of MT tutors SSST teachers Administrators and teachers Parents network Students
• Practices MT expectations curriculum Professional practices
Admission Process Language Profile
Inspired by West Island School, Hong Kong
Network PRACTICES
PRACTICES
Network
Network
Network - Curriculum Support
Network - Curriculum Support
Network – Curriculum Support
Network – Curriculum Support
Numbers
PYP
MYP DP TOTAL
2009-10 ---- --- 11 11 2010-11 17 25 16 58 2011-12 36 39 21 96 2012-13 49 64 25 138 2013-14 57 77 35 169
Mother Tongue Programme – Numbers of students
PYP MYP DP Numbers of languages throughout the school
2009-10 -- -- 7 7 2010-11 3 3 6 8 2011-12 5 6 7 9 2012-13 7 9 10 15 2013-14 7 11 5 14
Mother Tongue Programme – Numbers of languages
Consolidation and Celebration
Consolidation and Celebration • SY12-13 & 13-14 Board Support Integrating the MT into school wide policies and practices Hiring practices EAL Support structures Expectations
– Connection with Language A curriculum – Taught Curriculum / Assessed Curriculum / MT Tutors
support / Differentiation – Students’ academic progress / reporting
Ongoing celebration of MT leads to increased confidence and identity for MT students and greater understandings and support by English Speakers
Entr
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test
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Curriculum Support
Curriculum Support
Curriculum Support
MT Movie presentation final version.mp4
Community Voices
Ongoing Challenges • Continuing to build awareness and understanding of the importance of
language diversity across communities
• Continued inclusion in school policies
• Keeping everyone motivated
• Consolidation of the curriculum
• Finding and keeping resources to build the programmes • Tensions between MT and Language B
• Requirements for national systems and schools • Progression from MT to IB Diploma (Bilingual)
• Budgets / Time for Coordination
• Human resources and the ‘two HR systems’
Quality: Co-currency: Sustainability
• Shared language
• Community responsiblity
• Professional learning
• Positive perceptions • Accessibility
• Pathways
Simon’s Story