• Media type: E-Book; Video
  • Title: Schools in challenging circumstances : 1: English as an additional language
  • Corporation: Available Light Productions
  • Published: [England]: Teachers TV/UK Department of Education, 2010
  • Published in: Education in Video: Volumes I + II
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (10 min)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9781503404625
  • Keywords: English language Study and teaching Foreign speakers ; Immigrant children Education Great Britain ; Instructional television programs ; Film
  • Reproduction note: Previously released as DVD
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: Title from resource description page (viewed April 8, 2015)
    Zielgruppe - Audience: For Elementary School audiences
    This edition in English
  • Description: Bristol Metropolitan Academy has over 30 language backgrounds, children coming as immigrants or refugees from places like Somalia or Poland. Teaching these children brings challenges which 2 teachers at the school particularly relish. Basia Everett, a Pole & Deborah Lewisohn Aikman, an American both love their work. As strangers in a new country they empathise with the fears of their pupils & have both devised an approach which especially allows for students to express their feelings as well as learn English. Both teachers describe their motivations & why these have helped them work with children who can have emotional difficulties. Their teaching goes beyond language teaching, but also includes having their students feel they're in a safe place & encouraging the students to feel happy about their new country