Lexis Education is excited to be attending the 2023 ECIS Leadership conference that will be held at the International School of Düsseldorf from 27th -29th April. How can we understand the culture of our schools and put measures in place to create a powerful, and self-sustaining, model for …
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Showcase your professional skills with the new Certified Tutor badge
The Lexis Education Tutor certification is a highly-sought after skill that many schools recognise and value. The qualification not only shows your expertise in literacy and in addressing the needs of multilingual learners, but also positions yourself as a leader, one that is able to train other …
Developing English through an understanding of how languages work
We are happy to share with you the presentation from two wonderful Lexis Education tutors. Payal Yadav and Imogen Lazarus explore ways of speeding up our EAL students’ learning of English and learning in English through a focus on how languages work to make meaning. This approach draws on a …
The impact of TEMC at the British International School Ukraine
We are excited to share with you a fantastic presentation by Stephen Morris, who trained as a TEMC Tutor in 2021. Stephen implemented the TEMC course at the British International School Ukraine in his capacity as Head of EAL (he now works at Nord Anglia International School Hong Kong). Stephen was …
Assessing a student text using Lexis Education’s LLDC
Lexis Education's Language & Learning Development Continuum (LLDC) is an essential tool for supporting your students’ achievements, in that it outlines the language demands that need to be specifically addressed to progress their learning. In order to show you how powerful the LLDC can be, we …
The explicit teaching of sentence structure in the classroom
This case study describes the work of Loredana Saracini-Palombo, a Year 6/7 teacher at St Mark’s Lutheran Primary School in South Australia. In 2009, Loredana also took on a role of mentoring other teachers in the school in explicit, contextualised teaching of literacy. St Mark’s Lutheran pedagogy …