Interesting and impressive video clips. They switch one language to the other. It looks very natural and show a good flow of conversation. Being bilingual is cool, and trilingual is even cooler!

This is a follow-up posting of [AEF] Korean drum (장구) performance, Campsie Public School. I think it is worthwhile sharing Eun Young ssn's comments on her students' Korean drum performance with others. Please see below.

"I think this photo represents our Korean Bilingual Program at Campsie Public School so well. [...omit...] The left hand has to go up and down as you hit the drum with the stick, while the right hand goes to the sides as the stick remains on the drum in between the strokes. Can you imagine the drummers' brains? The second language is there for the bilingual brain development, Irene's brain is fully lit up for the day since we run this drumming class at 8 in the morning. As you already know, Irene comes to the Korean class everyday for an hour on top of the morning activities and the lessons are prepared in the CLIL approach. (She has been learning about 'Where does bread/rice come from?' this term.) More importantly, the students get to enjoy the music and feel that they can learn and achieve something and it is so much fun. No wonder the Korean Bilingual Class students have done so well in NAPLAN..."

On AEF Conference Day 3, my group visited an impressive Year 5 Korean language classroom (and we also did the Chinese and Tamil class observation, but I'm going to brief the Korean class obsevation only). The class had students at mixed levels/competences and from different cultural background i.e. from new arrival Korean students (not yet familiar with English instructions) to non-Korean background kids. Homebush PS offers three languages to all students. Korean heritage/background students are to learn Korean. If a student are not from those three language background, they just choose one of them and learn the language. In this way, the school is able to embed Asia perspectives across the curriculum.

It might not be ideal for many language teachers to accommodate all different levels of students in a classroom. I totally understand as I had once had a class consisting of 25 students form Years 7 to 10 at all differnt levels. I think the diffentiated programming with appropriate strategies should work in this circumstance: Differentiated programming sounds like a big 'term', but it is really simple educational concept. Just providing multiple tasks (assignments) designed (tailored) for students of different levels of achievement etc...  I'm not sure whether the teacher (Ms Haeryun Martin) did her lesson with this differentiation concept or not, but she did it wonderfully with no sweat: building contexts and scaffolding as a whole, dividing her class into 3 groups and getting them on three different major tasks, teacher attention to group by group, putting teacher's expectation for peer support while doing tasks in groups/individually, and then finally the class 'story-telling' activity with their teacher.

See the slideshow below for the Korean lesson gist at Homebush Public School. 

Observed a well-designed ICT enhanced language lessson at Homebush Boys High School. The teacher, ms Kyung-ae Yu is an iPad guru - she has plenty of lesson ideas and skills with iPad, and presented them in Korean workshops and PL days. The class we walked in was a Year 10 Korean background/heritage class - of course, at mixed levels and abilities. The lesson was about Korean public holidays and the story behind them: viewing an interesting but still very short 'student-made' video clip (students created the video clips as their group project prior to the lesson), and then doing the jeopardy game with iPad (Whiteboard app for students). Boys seriously engaged in this game-typed Korean cultrue lesson through Korean instructions. It was interesting to observe the class and think about how to get our boys to learn languages..., for now, put this thought for another time.

Follow this link for Pre-created PowerPoint Jeopardy Downloads.

See below for more photos. I wanted to take more photos but the classroom was too dark to get good photos.

I'm not going to 'bla bla bla' about the huge success of the Bilingual Schools Program at Campsie PS. As many NSW Korean language teachers know, it is now well-known through many conferences, workshops and media exposures in both Australia and Korea since the introduction of the Korean bilingual program in 2010.

This afternoon, four presenters from Campsie PS truly walked us (the audience there) through their bilingual program. Click on the slideshow below to taste a bit about it. You might also be interested in watching the video clips.

Just one thing I'd like to mention here, Campsie PS provided the 'measurable' outcomes/evidences of the value language education: Students in the bilingual classes for the last four years (taking them out of their main stream classes for 5 hours per week) showed outstanding results in NAPLAN.

Fantastic 'Korean drumming' performance presented by Campsie PS, for the AEF Conference Day 1 finale.
Absolutely wonderful and talented young drummers!
Hope the whole drum performance will be uploaded on the AEF website. 

Korean traditional fan dance presented by Eastwood PS students at the Opening of the AEF National Conference 2014.

It was a brilliant fusion dance performance - traditional fan dance in contemporary K-pop. Well done, Jiwon ssn and her wonderful students!

Here is the link to the AEF National Conference 2014 website

Now more photos are available from the AEF conference photo gallery. 
Follow the link below!