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University of Sydney seeking internship placements

9/9/2021

The University of Sydney is seeking internship placements for preservice language teachers.

Master of Teaching Internship 5 October – 15 November
Chinese and French
Payment: $476/student

Combined Degree Internship 5 October – 29 November
Chinese or French, Chinese or Japanese, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
Payment: $680/student

Please contact the Secondary Professional Experience Coordinator via email if you are interested.

2021 HSC orals – NESA QandA session – recording now available

6/9/2021

For anyone unable to make today's QandA session on the 2021 HSC orals with Regine Berghofer from NESA, we have published the recording on our YouTube channel.

2021 HSC orals - NESA QandA session

3/9/2021

NESA is offering a QandA session on the 2021 HSC orals on Monday 6 September 2021, 4-4:30 pm.

Teachers from all sectors are welcome to join via Zoom:
https://nsweducation.zoom.us/j/66347496703?pwd=dGNqVG5GbVR4di82eE9wTkRuUGdvQT09

The session will be recorded.

2021 HSC orals – information session recording and presentation

2/9/2021

For those of you not able to join us yesterday, we recorded our introductory session. Attached please find the slide deck, so you have access to all the links.

hsc_orals_pl-1_sept_2021.pdf
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HSC-style oral examination support

23/8/2021

The Languages and Culture team is organising professional learning for conducting and marking HSC-style oral examinations on Wednesday 1 September 2021, at 4 pm.

This professional learning will consist of:
a. general information session – where are we now and why?
b. general session on conducting/marking an HSC-style oral exam, addressing your concerns
c. language-specific collaborative marking groups, with experienced markers.

The session will run for approximately 1.5 hours.

Please register using this form by 5 pm Sunday 29 August. We will forward you the Zoom link on Wednesday morning, the day of the session.

The session is open to teachers of all sectors – please complete the form to receive the meeting link.

The session will not be recorded due to the use of breakout rooms.

Statewide staff meeting – principles of exam setting

9/8/2021

The languages statewide staff meeting in Week 7 will explore the process of the HSC examination setting. Join us on Monday 23 August, 4-5 pm, to hear from Adele Burke, Senior Assessment Officer at NESA.

We will explore:
- setting examination questions
- writing stimulus passages
- writing marking guidelines.

You must enrol in the session on MyPL to receive the link to the online meeting. Search for course code NR29242, and select the session for Monday 23 August.

The link for each statewide staff meeting is different, so you need to enrol in each session we offer.

We look forward to seeing you there! This session will not be recorded, so please make sure to join us live.

If you haven't joined our statewide staffroom yet, please complete our short entry survey to join. Log in using your department email.

prinicples_of_exam_setting.pdf
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Statewide staff meeting – recording and slide deck

4/8/2021

On Tuesday 3 August, 2021 we delivered our statewide staff meeting with guest presenter Kate Thompson, Stage 6 Advisor. Thank you to the teachers who joined us for the live session. For those who weren’t able to make it, the recording is now live on our YouTube channel and the slide deck is attached.
We will continue with our Stage 6 focus in our Week 7 meeting with guest presenter Adele Burke, Senior Assessment Officer, Examining and Testing, NESA.

Virtual Network – conference survey

2/8/2021

The Languages and Culture team is seeking input from our regional and remote language teachers regarding our planned Term 3 2021 conference. This is a targeted event for language teachers 7-12 in rural and remote public schools who do not have a local geographic network available to them.

We would like to find out your preferences regarding:

- format of the conference
- timing of the conference
- areas of professional learning needs.

We would appreciate your feedback in completing this survey by 5 pm, Friday 6 August. It takes about 1 minute to complete.

We will be in touch soon about our Semester 2 professional learning plans.

If you have any questions please contact Coreena Allen or Evia Kyriacou.

NESA – 2022 HSC exam development applications

2/8/2021

NESA's 2022 HSC exam development application is still open – you can find more information on the NESA website.

Chief Examiner – closing date Wednesday 14 July 2021.
Committee member – closing date Friday 13 August 2021.
Assessor applications – closing date Friday 12 November 2021.

Resources and professional learning for all languages from SICLE

29/7/2021

SICLE is organising a number of language specific PL events, focusing on strategies for online language learning. All events will be advertised on the Open Language Portal under the Resources for All Languages button and all teachers are welcome. Currently on the Portal there is information about free online workshops, for Greek, Arabic, Chinese and Hindi. More will be added in the coming weeks.
You can also explore sample programming resources, as well as generic resources that may be useful for the teaching and learning of all languages.