FOUR senior teachers from the Jeli English Tuition Centre in Kelantan recently visited the Alice Smith School in Equine Park to observe the strategies used by the Curriculum Support Faculty to teach English as an Additional Language (EAL).

Sponsored by Higher Education Minister Datuk Mustapa Mohamed, the Jeli English Tuition Centre provides supplementary English studies for selected students from 27 feeder schools in the Jeli area.
The EAL programme aims to assist students who are non-native speakers of English and is designed to help them achieve their potential in academic, social and cultural situations.

The visiting teachers were given an insight into the four basic skills of English literacy (listening, speaking, reading and writing) and how these are used daily. They were also shown how to engage students in various tasks, using genres, poems, plays, interviews and discussions.

Meanwhile, education leadership trainers Patricia Clark and Judith Mullen from the London Leadership Centre (LLC) - part of the Institute of Education, University of London - and the National College of School Leadership recently hosted a mini-conference for senior Education Ministry officers at the school.

The conference, themed The changing educational landscape - a challenge for our leaders, outlined the work of the LLC as well as the external and internal pressures driving change in the British education system.