NESA has released the draft Korean 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 Korean 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

Arirang was developed by the NSW Department of Education under the National Asian Language and Studies in Schools Program. It is for the first 100 to 200 hours of learning Korean in Years 7 to 10.

It was previously hosted on the Curriculum K-12 website, which was decommissioned last year. It is now available to all Korean teachers on the Korean section of the NSW Department of Education's new curriculum website.

We've noticed that many subscribers to our Korean page are missing out on important news for languages teachers.

Important information, for example, about our professional learning, state-wide updates, NESA news and collaboration with teachers, is normally posted on the News page, and not on the language-specific pages.

Please ensure you are subscribed to our News page by adding your email to our RSS feed on the side-bar (highlighted in yellow below).

​This means your will receive a daily email message when Languages NSW News has new content. You can receive similar updates for the Korean language page by following the same step on this page.

​The Languages and Culture team (Secondary Education) no longer has language-specific consultants. Instead, we have four Language Officer positions to provide generic support to teachers of all languages 7-12, ensuring greater equity.
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Last term, we advertised for teachers to express interest in joining our language-specific reference groups. Unfortunately we have had quite a low response rate for Korean and so we are extending the closing date to Friday 12 May 2017.

Each reference group will provide a range of support, for example:
- developing language-specific support materials 7-12, including sample assessments
- providing feedback on new NSW language-specific syllabuses developed under the Languages K–10 Framework
- developing language-specific support materials for the new course prescriptions (2019-2023) for Extension courses and Korean and Literature (formerly Background Speakers) courses.

Each language-specific reference group will run from Term 2 2017 to the end of Term 3 2018.

Membership is limited to NSW public school teachers 7-12. We are seeking 3-5 members per group. Membership may support working towards ‘Highly Accomplished’ (standards 1.3.3, 2.1.3 and 2.3.3).

The time-commitment will vary according to the language and the time of year, but will not exceed six days per teacher. Participation dates will be negotiable. Relief will be paid to schools.

If you’d like to express interest in being part of a group, and working with the Languages and Culture team, please complete the attached Expression of Interest (EOI) form and email to nicholas.wilson28@det.nsw.edu.au 

Closing date: 12 May 2017

Canterbury Public School requires a Korean teacher for one day per week in 2017. Please forward your Expressio of Interest (no more than 2 pages) outlining your skills and suitability for this position to Alenka Madzar (Korean program coordinator) at alenka.madzar@det.nsw.edu.au by Monday 16 January 2017.

The NSW Department of Education is delighted to renew its Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea, as represented by the Korean Education Centre of the Korean Consulate General.

Mr Soo Hwan Kang, Director Korean Education Centre of Consulate General of Republic of Korea in Sydney and Ms Lila Mularczyk, Director, Secondary Education signed the MoU, witnessed by Ms Noh Kyoung Kim, Chief of the Governors’ Association of Korea in the Korean Consulate General and Mrs Elisabeth Robertson, Coordinator, Languages and Culture. 

Mr Joseph Kim, General Manager of the Korean Education Centre also attended the signing, with Mrs Janelle Byrne, Language Officer and Ms Amanda Davis, Languages Advisor K-6.

Korean is a language of great importance in NSW public schools. The Korean Plant-A-School Program has enabled Korean language programs to be established and to grow in many schools, and the Korean Bilingual Program at Campsie Public Schools is one of the centrepieces of Korean language education in NSW.

This year, we have seen the introduction of the Stage 6 Korean Beginners course, which is an acknowledgement of Korean’s growing popularity.

The annual Korean Principals’ Study Tour also enables many principals to see the benefits of a Korean language program.

The NSW Department of Education looks forward to many more years working with the Korean Education Centre to support Korean language programs in NSW public schools. 

Expressions of interest are invited from primary and secondary schools which would like to receive funding to introduce a Korean language program at school.

The Korean Plant-a-School Program assists NSW public schools to seed and sustain the teaching and learning of the Korean language by providing financial support. The program is facilitated by the Learning and Teaching Directorate and funded by the Korean Education Centre of the Korean Consulate General. For further details on the program, please refer to the flyer below.

If interested, please apply using the attached Expression of Interest form and submit to Elisabeth Robertson by 12 December 2016.

For further details, please contact Elisabeth Robertson.