ESOL Regional Networking Event (online 10.30am)

ESOL Training and Development

We invite you to join us for our third Regional Networking event of 2025.

The focus of this session is on training opportunities to become an ESOL teacher, and professional development opportunities for ESOL practitioners in our region.

The routes taken to becoming an ESOL teacher can be many and varied, and accessing specialised training in this area can sometimes be challenging. The sector itself is also diffuse, with many people coming to the delivery of learning through experience, through volunteering or through teaching in other sectors. NATECLA recommends that ‘everyone teaching English to speakers of other languages should be trained as a specialist teacher of ESOL’. In this session we will discuss this recommendation, as well as exploring the regional routes available to specialist training, and the resources available to help people access them. We will also highlight work being done across the region to increase access to training and boost our capacity to deliver high quality ESOL learning.

The capacity to deliver high quality learning is also dependent on the provision of training opportunities to help ESOL practitioners develop their practice in a fast moving sector. The second focus of this session is on innovative approaches to ESOL CPD. In a diverse sector, how can we deliver training that reaches all our providers, to help us develop a coherent and creative experience for our ESOL learners? We will discuss this issue with input from a range of practitioners.

This Regional Networking event is offered as an online event. We offer the event in two time slots on 12th November, in order to accommodate colleagues working at different times of the day. You can join us either at 10.30 am or 4.30pm. The session is the same at either time.

This registration page is for our morning session at 10.30 to 12.15. For our twilight session (16:30 - 18.15) please follow THIS LINK.

The session will take place on Teams.

The agenda for this event is as follows:

10.30 - 10.45: Welcome and Information giving. The MESH team and Emma Taylor, Migration Yorkshire.

10.45 - 10.55: The Yorkshire & Humber ITE network. Emma Taylor/Cathy Clarkson

10.55 - 11.10: Pathways into ESOL Teaching: A new MESH resource. Angela Palmer

11.10 - 11.30: ESOL ITE Discussion Forum

11.30 - 11.40: BREAK

11.40 - 11.55: ITE/CPD: a Dual ESOL Pathways Programme at Bradford College. Cathy Clarkson, Bradford College

11.55 - 12.15: Exploring CPD in Yorkshire & Humber. Discussion led by Safina Arif & Angela Palmer.

12.15: Close.