Understand how to contribute to the assessment of bilingual learners
In this tutorial you will learn:
- The importance of gathering the ‘bigger picture’ about a learner; looking both at their background information and assessing their proficiency in English
- About the fact pupils of different language heritage might enter schooling at any age or stage of language experience
- From September 2018 'the collection of proficiency in English is no longer required by the department (for Education) and, as such, it is removed from the school census collection with immediate effect. Schools are therefore no longer required to assess a child’s proficiency in English for purpose of transmitting to the department via the school census'.