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 …
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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 …
Announced: TEMC Tutor Training in Singapore, Oct-Nov 2023
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 …
Interview: Merran Harper, TEMC Tutor
This month, we interview Merran Harper, former Head of School at Utahloy Language Centre in China. Merran completed Lexis Education’s 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 …
Links between 3L and TEMC and the Australian Curriculum
The following table provides a comparison between the metalanguage used in Lexis Education’s 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 …
Achieving academic excellence for all: a video presentation
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 …