EMTAS EAL Excellence Award for Early Years Settings

The EY EXA comprises a set of descriptors that settings can use to evaluate their practice and provision for multilingual learners and their families. Carrying out a self-evaluation using the descriptors enables settings to identify what they are already doing that is in line with good practice, to understand how to improve upon existing practice and to identify any gaps/areas for development that may exist. This enables settings to address those gaps in an informed, focused way.