NESA has released the draft Indonesian K-10 syllabus. The NSW Department of Education is conducting state-wide consultation for DoE teachers on the draft syllabuses from 13-29 June 2017. This consultation period is the only opportunity for teachers to be part of the department’s feedback to NESA. 
(Note: Other education sectors run their own consultation).

As a DoE teacher, if you'd like to be part of our consultation, here's what you need to do:
1. Download the draft language-specific K-10 syllabus from the NESA website.

2. Carefully read through the draft syllabus. If you have any areas of concern or strength within any of the draft languages syllabuses, please submit via email to Janelle Byrne by Thursday 29 June 2017.

3. Attend the Adobe Connect session on Wednesday 28 June (3:30-4:30pm) by logging into https://connect.schools.nsw.edu.au/secondarylanguages.
If you haven't participated in an Adobe Connect session before, please download the 'how-to' guide below and follow the instructions. It's easy!

4. Complete the NESA online survey by 7 August 2017.
 
Teachers are encouraged to participate in the NESA-led consultation opportunities in addition to departmental consultation. Full details including the NESA consultation meetings are available on the NESA website.

Contact details: Janelle Byrne on 9266 8540 or janelle.byrne@det.nsw.edu.au

The new course prescriptions 2019-2023 for the Stage 6 Indonesian and Literature course are now available. 
Implementation of the new course prescriptions will commence from Term 1, 2018.

Schools are reminded that study of the texts prescribed for the Year 12 course may not begin before the completion of the Year 11 course. This also applies to the study of a prescribed text in another medium, such as the film of a novel.

For more information, contact: 
Lyn Sully
Inspector, Languages
lyn.sully@nesa.nsw.edu.au
(02) 9367 8152
@LanguagesNESA

The Board of Studies, Teaching and Educational Standards NSW (BOSTES) maintains a register of writers and reviewers to assist with syllabus development processes in NSW.

Teachers with expertise in writing and reviewing syllabuses, support documents, work samples or units of work are invited to express their interest in being included on the register.

​Expression of interest forms can be downloaded from the BOSTES website. For further information, please contact Rhonda Clarke on (02) 9367 8246 or rhonda.clarke@bostes.nsw.edu.au. ​

The Board of Studies, Teaching and Educational Standards NSW (BOSTES) is still seeking further text nominations for the 2019–2023 Higher School Certificate course prescriptions for both the Languages Extension courses in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Modern Greek and Spanish as well as the Background Speaker courses in Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese and Korean.

Languages teachers, academics and professional associations are invited to submit nominations. Have your say at http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/syllabus_hsc/languages-fbs-ext-prescriptions-survey.html 

Students enrolled in the HSC Heritage language courses in Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese and Korean no longer need an individual CD player for the written examinations. See the BOSTES link below for more information.

Consultation on the Review of Languages Education in NSW concluded in December 2013. More than 300 people attended public consultation meetings held in metropolitan and regional NSW.

Many responses were received from students, teachers, parents, school executive members, community organisations and education authorities.

The consultation report provides the key findings on the Review’s six initial proposals and additional themes emerging from the consultation data. The report also provides information about the consultation process and the consultation respondents.

The consultation report is now available to download from the BOSTES website.

For more information, contact:
Languages Review Team
languagesreview@bos.nsw.edu.au
(02) 9367 8205