This workshop is designed to support delegates in ensuring speaking and listening has a high profile within the mathematics curriculum, being used to challenge and stimulate thinking and reasoning skills. Effective engagement strategies and practical language-based activities will be modelled to scaffold, develop and extend pupils who have English as an additional language as articulate and independent mathematicians. The language demands of the maths curriculum will be analysed and discussed with a view to giving staff a greater awareness of how to make the maths curriculum more accessible and engaging for EAL learners.

Presenter: Thérèse O’Sullivan

Thérèse is a consultant within Leeds City Council Learning Improvement team. She has worked within the field of EAL and language development at LCC for 10 years following many years of teaching experience in the classroom and at senior management level. She is an experienced trainer and specialist in the area of English as an additional language pedagogy and practice. Within this broad area she can offer expert support and guidance on: strategies for increasing attainment for both new to English and advanced learners of English, culturally inclusive learning, making the maths curriculum EAL friendly, language development across the curriculum and meaningful approaches to teaching grammar as part of the writing process.

This workshop is funded by an excellence and innovation fellowship from the Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence.

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Directions: Go past main reception (on your left), through the double doors straight ahead, up the stairs to the first floor, through the doors, turn right, through three sets of double doors, turn right, through the doors, turn left, through the doors, turn left, through the doors, room 1.09 is on the right.

Parking: If you would like to park in the university car park, we will be able to reserve a place for you in advance for payment of £7. Please email us at Language@leeds.ac.uk with your full name and car registration number. Once the reservation has been processed, you will be sent a code number which you will need to use in the pay machine before exiting, rather than on arrival. Pay machines are located on level 1 of the multi storey car park, outside the Ziff building and in The Edge car park. You do not need to display a permit on the windscreen as the ANPR cameras will verify the booking. The reservation is valid for anywhere in the Orange Zone on campus (which includes the multi-storey).

Alternatively, the nearest car park is the multi-storey on Woodhouse Lane, LS2 3AX, which is a 5 min walk from campus. There is also off-street parking around the campus on St Mark’s Street, just off Woodhouse Lane opposite the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering or near the Burley end of campus on Lyddon Terrace, Clarendon Road and Woodsley Road, for example, depending on availability.