Primary Sector

The Primary Sector Special Interest Group was formed to provide a primary perspective in TESOLANZ. Some issues noted by ESOL teachers working in Primary schools around New Zealand are:

• That the face of ESOL teaching has changed over the last few years, partly influenced by the number of International Students attending our schools.
• The positive effects of Cluster Groups as much needed Professional Development.
• The need for curriculum support for ESOL teachers, and support for NESB students in their mainstream classes.
• The increasing number of students who are coming to NZ with special learning needs as well as their NESB needs.

If you are a TESOLANZ member with an interest in these or other issues affecting ESOL teaching in a NZ Primary school, contact the Primary SIG Coordinator, Karen Cebalo to be added to the Primary SIG emailing list.

2010 Notices

Reminder: registration for the next CLESOL conference opens on 1st March.

If you've never been to a CLESOL conference they are without exception extremely valuable, and over the past few years have become more and more Primary-orientated. Pauline Gibbons in particular will be well known to Primary teachers and is one of the keynote speakers. (Learning to Learn in a Second Language (1993); Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning: Teaching ESL Students in the Mainstream Classroom (2002); English Learners, Academic Literacy and Thinking: Learning in the Challenge Zone (2009).

Also consider presenting a paper yourself. Many of the most valuable presentations in previous conferences have been practical or action research papers presented by ESOL teachers currently working in the field.

The CLESOL website is http://www.clesol.org.nz/2010/home.html

Teachers' Refresher Course

TESOLANZ has received a letter from the Teachers' Refresher Course committee asking about courses we thought would be useful for teachers for the 2010/2011 session. If you have any suggestions for TESOLANZ to forward , please send them to your branch Primary representative or one of the committee below. DUE 8 MAY.

Open letter from TRCC (JPG file 450kb)

Primary SIG Steering Committee:

Penny O'Connell - Email
Marlene Mak - Email
Bernie Moffatt - Email
Jan Probert - Email
Susan Millington - Email

Primary SIG Guardian submission September 2009

This submission on the discussion document “Living arrangements of young international students” is a summary of the feedback from the Primary sector members of TESOLANZ as a result of e-mail communications.

REPORTS

All  PDF unless marked otherwise

 

2011

Primary SIG Report AGM 2011

Primary SIG Report July 2011

Primary SIG Report Chch 2 March 2011

Primary SIG Report AGM 2010

Primary SIG Report June 2010

Primary SIG Report March 2010

 

2009

Primary SIGReport June 2009

Primary SIG AGM report - summary

Primary SIG Minutes 2009

Primary SIG Report March 2009

2008

Primary SIG Report to 2008 AGM

2007

Minutes of Primary SIG Meeting at 2007 AGM

Primary SIG report to 2007 AGM

2006

 TESOLANZ Primary and Secondary Sector Interest Groups. Submission on the Draft New Zealand Curriculum. November 2006.

Primary SIG report to 2006 AGM

2005

Primary Sector Issues 2005