Hi Lexis Education community, As the year draws to a close, we wanted to reflect on the accomplishments of our team, tutors and community at large throughout the past year. We hope you enjoy this wrap up and we look forward to another exciting year in 2025. Our 2024 highlights đ§âđ We …
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A guest article by TEMC Certified Tutor Mitchell Cooper One of the many things that makes Hangzhou International School (HIS) such an appealing place for expatriate and local staff to work, are the professional development opportunities on offer. Teachers are afforded the opportunity to build their …
We are excited to announce that Lexis Education is now a NESA recognised PD Provider. If you are a teacher based in NSW (Australia), you should be aware that NESA has removed Accredited and Elective PD categories to give teachers more flexibility in completing their required 100 hours of …
Jo Tooley is an Education Officer (EO) at Toowoomba Catholic Schools Office (TCSO). She is coordinating the rollout of the Diocesan-wide project, Subject Discipline Literacy (SDL), to improve teacher efficacy in subject-specific literacies. The Lexis Educationâs â3L: Language and Literacy …
Lexis Education launched in July 2024 its first online, self-paced course, How Language Works. HLW is for any teacher wanting to develop an explicit understanding of how language works to support their studentsâ learning. Dozens of educators working in various contexts around the world are currently …
As part of her presentation at the ECIS MLIE conference in February 2024, Tiffany Crook, English Language acquisition specialist at the Inter-Community School Zurich, put together this great video on the implementation of Lexis Education's 'Teaching in English in multilingual classrooms' (TEMC) …
The ability to listen effectively is dependent on a complex interplay between the listener, features of the text, and the context in which the text is being listened to. While listening comprehension requires a range of abilities on the part of the listener, it is also dependent on features of the …
Last month, Lexis Education's Director John Polias delivered a presentation at the Australian Literacy Educators' Association Conference on improving studentsâ science literacy through harmonising the patterns of meaning-making in the science classroom. In this video, John talks about how we, as …
Lexis Educationâs EAL & Literacy Consultant, Lynette Lingard, will be presenting a free webinar on Wednesday 7 August from 4pm to 5pm AEST. Topic: Improving outcomes for multilingual learners through a language-based pedagogy. If you are interested in becoming a 'Teaching in English in …
This article describes the early work of a Year 6/7 classroom teacher, Giuseppe Mammone, at Seaton Park Primary School in Adelaide, South Australia, in supporting students to understand what happens in their exchanges with peers, family and other adults. Its title could have been: âDeveloping the …
Pronouns can stand in place of things and, in that way, provide a tool for making a text cohesive. But, we can have other words stand in for things and often we can completely omit words, too, and these also help make a text cohesive. Substitution Substitution is the use of words such as âoneâ …
Lexis Education is pleased to invite you to a one-day professional learning symposium on Thursday 28 November 2024 at the Savoy Hotel on Little Collins in Melbourneâs CBD (630 Little Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000). Over more than two decades, Lexis Education has worked in many educational …
Why should language be placed at the centre of education? In any learning context, the ways teachers and students use language with each other has a major impact on the quality of the learning taking place. Equally, studentsâ ability to use language to read and write the multitude of texts from all …
Lorraine Batres is an NAP teacher (Grades 2/3/4) at the Western English Language School in Victoria, Australia, who recently completed the How Language Works course. She explains how the course helped her achieve a dramatic increase in studentsâ achievements, in particular using one of the course's …
Lexis Education's Director, Brian Dare, will present at the 2024 New Arrivals Program Professional Learning Conference on 16 August 2024 in Melbourne. Topic: Understanding the power of the lexicogrammar As students across all levels of schooling engage in learning across the curriculum, …
We are humbled by the wonderful feedback from participants who completed our 'Teaching in English in multilingual classrooms' tutor training program last week at GEMS Education in Dubai. "Even better than I had imagined. The impact this can have for GEMS schools is huge. So relevant and …
Lexis Education will be launching its 20-hour online course How Language Works (HLW) on 1 July 2024. HLW is designed for all teachers, primary through to secondary, who are seeking to extend their knowledge about language. In this highly interactive online course, you will gain an in-depth …
We are very excited to announce the date and location of our one-day professional learning symposium: 28 November 2024 at the Savoy Hotel on Little Collins in Melbourne's CBD. If you haven't already done so, please help us make this event a success by answering this quick 5-min survey (6 …
Last year, an Expert Panel was appointed by the ACT Minister for Education to develop recommended actions to address equity gaps and improve literacy and numeracy outcomes in all ACT public schools. Their Final Report is now publicly available and is well worth a read. In particular, we highly …
The Teaching in English in multilingual classrooms (TEMC) course focuses on the needs of multilingual students, in particular EAL students, and ways to ensure their success in learning. Why become a TEMC Tutor in your school? 1. Implement evidence-based strategies to improve your studentsâ reading …
A few years ago, we shared with you a research conducted in 2018 and evaluating the whole-school implementation of an explicit language-based pedagogy in one of the most economically disadvantaged schools in Victoria, Australia. We are excited today to be sharing with you two exciting updates …
Mathematics is an interesting case because it uses three ways of making meaning: language, visuals and the symbolic (ie equations). Understanding mathematics is understanding all these three aspects, but here, we would like to focus on the patterns of language. For example, what are the patterns …
The development of vocabulary is an interesting area of concern for the following reasons: It is the one aspect of language most subject teachers talk about and usually the one aspect of their studentsâ language they complain most about. It is a misunderstood aspect of language and perhaps …
As teachers, our pedagogy ought to be shaped by an understanding of the role of language in learning and how this underpins the construction of knowledge. This is why we, as teachers, need to have a comprehensive understanding of Genres and the language resources associated with each, so that we can …
Bereniece Cumming, Experienced Senior Teacher, Babinda State School I thoroughly enjoyed working with other colleagues to learn and share in a collaborative setting. The interaction between us and the activities made a huge impact on how we were able to consolidate understandings. The content …
For all teachers based in Singapore or South East Asia and wanting to get trained as a certified TEMC Tutor, our next tutor training in the region will be held face to face at the Australian International School Singapore on 30, 31 Oct, 1, 2, 3 Nov 2023, with the excellent Lynette Lingard as our …
This month, we interview Merran Harper, former Head of School at Utahloy Language Centre in China. Merran completed Lexis Educationâs Teaching in English in multilingual classrooms (TEMC) Tutor Training. In this interview, she shares her experience becoming a tutor and delivering the course to her …
The following table provides a comparison between the metalanguage used in Lexis Educationâs 3L (Language and literacy for learning) and TEMC (Teaching in English in multilingual classrooms) courses and the recently updated version (now Version 9.0) of the Australian Curriculum. The table shows a …
In the video presentation below, Helen Handford, EAL Consultant and 'Teaching in English in multilingual classroom' (TEMC) Tutor Trainer, explains how to use TEMC's language-based pedagogy to optimise outcomes for multilingual learners within all subject disciplines. This is a must-watch video for …
As a small business working with teachers and schools around the world, we know how important all of you are as advocates for our courses and the benefits they bring to you and your students. So, we wanted to let you all know that, after keeping our prices at the same level since 2017, we will be …