Are you interested in working as a foreign language assistant at a German secondary school for 9 months?

Language assistants support the English teacher to improve students’ conversation and pronunciation skills, and increase students’ knowledge of Australian everyday life, culture, literature and current issues. Language assistants work for approximately 12 hours per week, plus lesson preparation time.

If awarded the scholarship, you will commence your stay in Germany with an introductory seminar in August/September, and finish on 31 May of the following year. 12 positions are available each year. This is an excellent opportunity to spend an extended period of time in Germany and perhaps even study a semester at a German university.

SCHOLARSHIP
- €800.00 per month, health, accident and public liability insurance
- One-off travel grant of €1000.00
 
REQUIREMENTS
Applicants must:

• - have completed a tertiary degree (BA or similar)
• - have a very good knowledge of German
• - be under the age of 29, be in good health and independent.

 
Deadline: 15 March 2016
For details and application forms please visit the Goethe-Institut website: www.goethe.de/australia
-> German language -> Teaching German -> Professional development in Germany
 
Contact: jelena.herster@melbourne.goethe.org

The Language Teaching Assistant program for NSW government schools will run again next year. There will be 5 French, 3 German and 1 Indonesian assistant. Principals have been advised of this program in the 14 August 2015 SchoolBiz.  

Schools now run their own budgets under Local Schools, Local Decisions.  It is now up to the school's principal to agree to pay the assistant in the school.  

Before applying for an assistant you will need to discuss your faculty needs with your Head Teacher and with the Principal.  Several schools could apply to share one assistant throughout the year.  

The application form is attached below and you will need to download it, fill it in and take it to your Principal for signature. Please return the application form to Maria Lomis at Maria.lomis@det.nsw.edu.au by 
28 August 2015.

You will be advised in early September of the outcome of your school’s application.

Further information is available by phoning Marie Ange Lewis on 02 9244 5573.

Applications are now open for government schools wishing to host a French, German or Indonesian Teaching Assistant in 2015. 

What is the Teaching Assistants Program?
Each year, the NSW Department of Education and Communities, in conjunction with the Ministries of Education in France and Germany, and the Indonesia Australia Language Foundation, invites NSW government schools to consider hosting a Teaching Assistant for one year. Five French, three German and one Indonesian Teaching Assistants take up their positions in their host schools from the beginning of each school year, after a two day induction and orientation program.There is no cost to the school in hosting the Teaching
Assistant. The Teaching Assistants are appointed above-establishment in schools for three days per week.

There is no cost to the school in hosting the Teaching Assistant. The Teaching Assistants are appointed above-establishment in schools for three days per week.

What do they do?
Teaching Assistants team-teach with qualified languages teachers and take small groups for language skills
development and practice. Teaching Assistants may also support languages programs in clusters of schools.

What are the eligibility requirements?
Priority will be given to schools with face-to-face classes. Secondary schools are eligible to apply if there are language classes in:
- three years from Years 7-10, or
- two years from Years 7-10 and face-to-face classes in Year 11 and/or Year 12.

Primary schools are eligible to apply if there are language classes for two hours per week, across two years from Kindergarten-Year 6.

Schools must nominate a qualified full-time permanent teacher to act as supervising teacher. Priority will be given to schools which have not hosted a Teaching Assistant in the past three years.

How does my school apply?
Applications to host a Teaching Assistant are now advertised in SchoolBiz. Click on the links below to download the information flyer for additional details about the program and the application form to host a Teaching Assistant in 2015.

Applications close 15 October 2014.

For further information, please contact For further information, please contact Marie Ange Lewis, French
Language Officer on (02) 9244 5573 or marie.lewis@det.nsw.edu.au
 

The closing date for applications for government schools to host a German Teaching Assistant in 2014 has been extended until Friday 11 October 2013.

Full details (including the application form) are at: http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/secondary/languages/scholarships/assistants/index.htm


 

Applications are now open for government schools wishing to host a German Teaching Assistant in 2014. 

Three German Teaching Assistants will take up their positions in the successful host schools from the beginning of 2014, after a two day induction and orientation program.

Teaching Assistants are appointed above-establishment for three days per week. There is no cost to the school in hosting a Teaching Assistant.

Full details (including the application form) are in SchoolBiz or at: http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/secondary/languages/scholarships/assistants/index.htm

Applications close 20 September 2013.

For further information, please contact Lyndall Franks, Indonesian Language Officer, on 02 9244 5355 
(Wednesday-Friday) or lyndall.franks@det.nsw.edu.au