ATESOL NT Webinar: Expanding primary EAL learners’ meaning making possibilities through ARTP

Raf, Julie and Shu had the great opportunity of presenting a webinar for ATESOL NT on ‘Expanding primary EAL learners’ meaning making possibilities through arts-rich translanguaging pedagogy’. We had a fantastic turnout with teachers from the Northern Territory and across the country joining us to explore how to use the arts and translanguaging to support language and literacy learning.

A highlight of the webinar was our first ever Zoom drama experience in which we explored how we could develop children’s content and language knowledge for writing a scientific explanation text by embodying water molecules changing state from solid, to liquid, to gas. Thank you to all the teachers who joined us for being such enthusiastic Zoom drama participants, sharing the ways they support their multilingual learners and reminding us of the importance of playful learning and engagement that our ARTP approach provides.

Thank you very much to Melissa for providing technical support for this session! Thank you to Liz from ATESOL for inviting us to share our work. We look forward to presenting for ATESOL again in the future and having the chance to work further with these fantastic teachers.

Let’s look at how our ARTP water molecules are moving!