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Statewide staff meeting – purposeful assessment design

19/5/2022

Our Week 4 statewide staff meeting explored the topic 'Purposeful assessment design – building language skills across Stages 4-6', in particular:

- the importance of marking guidelines aligning to outcomes
- how marking guidelines can be used to support student growth across Stage 4 to 6.

If you were unable to attend the live session, the recording is available on our YouTube channel and we have attached the slide deck here.

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Position available – Kingswood High School

8/4/2022

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Kingswood High School is seeking a qualified language teacher to commence in Term 2 2022 until the end of 2022.

Currently the load is Stage 4, 5 and 6 Spanish, but the school is open for discussion.

Please contact Caterina Meduri for further information.

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University of Sydney is seeking placements for preservice language teachers

7/4/2022

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The University of Sydney is seeking placements for preservice language teachers from 2 May-3 June 2022 (25 days).
Payment will be $850 per student.
Placements are sought for:

- Chinese – 5 students
- Spanish – 3 students
- French – 2 students
- German
- Indonesian.
Please check with your schools and contact the Office Secondary Professional Experience Coordinator at Sydney University if you are interested.

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Hunter Language Teachers' Conference - EOIs open for presenters

31/3/2022

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We are happy to announce that we are planning a Hunter Language Teachers' Conference for Friday 24 June 2022 in the Hunter. This will be a cross-sectoral conference for language teachers across NSW. We are calling for presenters from all sectors and welcome EOIs from those interested.
Focus areas for which we are seeking presenters are:

- Stage 6 assessment strategies
- multimodal task ideas
- language-based cultural activities, incursions and excursions
- innovative and effective teaching an learning strategies
- improving student self-efficacy
- language learning websites and apps
- engaging resources and activities
- engaging your school community with languages
- other.

Session brief:

- workshop sessions are 50 minutes
- TeachMeet sessions are 7 minutes
- teachers may submit a joint EOI to present together.

To express your interest, please complete the EOI form attached and email as a PDF to Coreena Allen by 5 pm on 8 April 2022.
Please note, all applications require the endorsement and signature of the applicant’s current principal.

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Language Teachers Network – Central Coast

25/3/2022

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The Central Coast Language Teachers Network is inviting everyone to the Term 1 network meeting which will be online via Teams Wednesday 30 March, Week 10.
Agenda:
1. Meet & Greet – some new names and faces on the list
2. Goals for Languages in our schools 2022 – what are we aiming to achieve?
3. Unpacking the draft new syllabus for Languages – preliminary discussion – please see here.

Enrol via MyPL:
Course code: NR25533
Name of session: Term 1 2022 Central Coast Language Network Meeting
Date: Wednesday 30 March 2022
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Venue: Teams

For further information, contact the network leader, Katherine Brownlee.

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Language Teachers Network – Armidale

23/3/2022

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The Armidale Language Teachers Network is inviting everyone to their first meeting for 2022. There will be sessions on feedback and the Language Gym.

Enrol via MyPL:
Course code: NR25533
Name of session: Armidale Languages Network Meeting
Date: Monday 28 March 2022
Time: 3:45-5:15 pm
Venue: Armidale Secondary College - staff common room

For further details, please contact the network leader, Deborah Moore.

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Language Teachers Network – Sydney South

23/3/2022

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The Sydney South network would like to invite you to their first meeting for 2022 on Thursday 7 April. The focus of the meeting will be to 'meet and greet' and enjoy afternoon tea while language teachers get to know each other, the new network leader, and representatives from the Languages and Culture team. There will also be time for a TeachMeet to share an activity or strategy that is currently working in your classroom. If you would like to share, please send an email to Marian Botros to add to the agenda.

Enrol via MyPL:
Course code: NR18042
Session details: Sydney South Language Network Term 1 2022 meeting
Date: Thursday 7 April 2022
Time: 4:00-5:00 pm, an afternoon tea and a 'meet and greet' from 3:30 pm
Venue: The Nihongo Tanken Center (Kirrawee High School, next to the school Library) 19 Hunter Street, Kirrawee 2232. Please enter through the school gate on Kirk Cres
Parking: Street parking available on Kirk Cres and Hunter Street

We look forward to seeing you then.

For more information, please contact the network leader Marian Botros.

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Language Teachers Network – Sydney Greater West

17/3/2022

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The Sydney Greater West network would like to invite you to the first meeting for 2022 on Tuesday 29 March. The focus of the meeting will be to get to know each other and the new network leader and a TeachMeet – share an activity or strategy that is currently working in your classroom. If you would like to share, please send an email to Alicia North to add to the agenda.

Enrol via MyPL and select the appropriate session:
Course code: NR18042
Session: Greater Western Sydney Term 1 2022 Meeting
Date: Tuesday 29 March 2022
Time: 4:00-5:00 pm - refreshments and a chat will be available from 3:30 pm.
Venue: James Ruse Agricultural High School, T2.1 (there will be signs up).
Parking: there is street parking available on Felton Rd, as well as Baker St (across the bus bay).

For more information, contact the network leader Alicia North.

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Language Teachers Network – Sydney North

17/3/2022

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The Language Teachers Network – Sydney North will hold its first meeting for 2022 as a full day event on Friday 8 April. The whole day will be delivered online.

This full day language network meeting day is made up of 2 parts. You must enrol in both sessions as we will be using ideas from part one in the afternoon:

- 9:00 am-12:00 pm – Languages and Literacy 7-12 – presented by the Languages and Culture team
- 1:00-3:00 pm – Language teachers network meeting. How can we use, alleviate and address language anxiety in:
- promoting languages at our school, (do we overtly address language anxiety)
- addressing it and overcoming it in our formative tasks
- alleviating it in assessment tasks to maximise student engagement and performance.

To enrol for the day you need to enrol in two sessions on MyPL:
1. Languages and Literacy 7-12, course code NR32663 – please select Languages and literacy 7-12 - Sydney North
2. Language teachers’ network meeting, course code NR25534 – please select Sydney North - Language Teacher Network meeting.

Please ensure you have approval from your principal and enrol by Tuesday 5 April.

For more information, please contact the network leader Margaret Wajs or Evia Kyriacou.

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Language Teacher Network – Mid North Coast

9/3/2022

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The Mid North Coast Language Teacher Network will hold its Term 1 meeting on Wednesday 23 March. The focus will be on:

- programming (including TSA online, Program Builder)
- differentiation.

The meeting will include a teachmeet and updates from languages.

Please enrol on MyPL.
Course code: NR25838
Session name: Language Network (Mid North Coast) Term 1 2022
Date: Wednesday 23 March 2022
Venue: Coffs Harbour High School
Time: 9:00 am-3:00 pm

If you have any queries, please don't hesitate to get in touch with the network leader Jody Newhouse.

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