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Lynette Lingard

Lynette is an EAL/D and literacy specialist offering EAL/D consulting services and professional development workshops for schools and teachers. Her workshops cover many and varied aspects of Literacy support, EAL/D support and multicultural understanding. Lynette has been working as an independent consultant and PD provider internationally and across Australia since 2017.

Having worked in the EAL/D field in Queensland State Education since 1997, Lynette has extensive experience in providing EAL/D and literacy support to schools. She understands the needs of EAL/D students, their teachers and their schools. Her expertise in this area has helped numerous teachers to understand and implement effective literacy teaching and learning practices within a supportive pedagogy. She is also an ardent believer in providing a culturally supportive environment and relishes showing schools and teachers how to go about this.

Lynette is a passionate and engaging presenter and her workshops are always rewarded with extremely positive feedback from teachers.

In addition, Lynette works with Lexis Education as a consultant and Tutor Trainer to present their highly regarded teacher training courses in Australia and internationally. See more information here

Lynette is passionate about supporting schools and teachers to understand and cater to the needs of their EAL/D students, and the pedagogy she advocates aligns with the literacy needs of all students.

Her experience includes the following roles: classroom teacher, EAL/D Specialist, EAL/D Principal Advisor (Education QLD), Lexis Education Teacher Trainer.

Lynette is based on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland Australia, but Zoom makes anything possible.

*also referred to as EALD students, ESL students, multilingual students and English Language Learners.

*also referred to as PL - Professional Learning

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