Daniel Osei

A little about me

I support English as an Additional Language across lower and upper secondary. A pupil may sound confident in everyday conversation and still find the language of a subject or examination difficult to access. I want teaching to pay attention to that difference instead of assuming that spoken fluency means every academic demand is clear.

Academic language needs to be made visible. I look for the vocabulary, sentence structures and ways of explaining that pupils need in a particular subject. A word list can help, but it is more useful when pupils see how the language works in a text, a question or a discussion they are already trying to follow.

I value resources that let teachers identify a language demand and give pupils a practical way to work with it. A prompt or model should support the subject learning rather than become a separate test of English. I want to work with colleagues so pupils can participate in the lesson and build the language they need to show their understanding.