A message from the AFMLTA...

We are pleased to inform you of the significant project being conducted by the AFMLTA for the Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment, which involves developing recommendations that will inform future policy design for languages education in Australia.

Part of this project involves data collection through a series of 3 teacher surveys to be implemented across 2020. Teacher Survey 1 is NOW OPEN.

Teachers of all languages in schools or community language centres are encouraged to participate in a survey about their experiences of the teaching of languages in their school site. Survey 1, relating to program provision and student participation, should take no more than 10 minutes to complete.

Your participation in this study is completely voluntary and all information provided will remain anonymous (the names of individual school sites and participating teachers are not collected).

The survey data will be used to inform the development of a national picture of the current situation of languages education across Australia, including the teaching of community languages and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages.

CLICK HERE to find out more and to access the survey.

For more details go to the project website, nlps.afmlta.asn.au

Carrousel Theatre is touring NSW from Monday 17 May to Friday 28 May 2021. Suitable for primary and Stage 4 students, the Puss in Boots puppet show is available in French, Italian, German and Spanish languages. The Jungle Book is also available in French, Italian, German and Spanish languages as well as Chinese and Indonesian.

​For more information, please contact Carrousel Theatre on 0430 539 888.

In 2021 Saturday School of Community Languages will be trialling Stage 3 (Year 5 and 6) classes for Italian and Hindi.
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Classes are held every Saturday morning during the school term. Students from public schools and other educational providers are eligible to enrol to study their background language.

​For more information contact us on 7814 2115.

It's important the numeracy activities are both age- and Stage-appropriate. For example, students in Stage 4 could explore activities in which they:

• - read a menu in the target language and calculate total costs, discounts and percentages, such as tipping
• - extract, interprets and comprehend a range of mathematical information in the target language from texts, tables, diagrams and graphs in a range of contexts, such as weather charts and transport timetables
• - create budgets and cost items in a foreign currency, such as shopping for souvenirs
• - applies knowledge of scale, distances and time zones to plan and budget an overseas travel itinerary.

​You can find sample numeracy activities for Stage 4 Chinese, French, German, Japanese and Spanish (NEW!) on the Stages 4 and 5 section of our site. Scroll down the page to the 'Numeracy' heading.

Hunter/Newcastle Language Teachers Network has a meeting next week on Thursday 10 September.  
 
Enrol via MyPL.
Course code: NR18042
Session: Hunter Network meeting Term 3 2020
Time: 4:00pm
Agenda: Accessing language resources and Making an escape room activity for language learning
Venue: Zoom
Meeting ID: 640 7956 4458
Passcode: 455497

For further information contact Coreena Allen.

Queanbeyan Language Teachers Network has a meeting next week on Wednesday 9 September.  
 
Enrol via MyPL.
Course code: NR18042
Session: Queanbeyan Language Teachers Network Term 3 Meeting
Time: 4:00pm
Agenda: TeachMeet – network members will share their creative ideas for the language classroom
Venue: Zoom
Meeting ID: 588 787 1421
Passcode: 837388

For further information contact Amanda Rowe.

Macquarie University is seeking placements for 2 final year students located in the South-West Sydney area in the following languages:
Chinese – 1 x 10 days  
Modern Greek – 1 x 10 days  
 
Dates to be negotiated directly between the supervising teacher and the preservice teacher. Remuneration for this placement is $330 per student. 
 
In addition, there are also 4-5 students who need to do minor placements in EAL/D (x 10 days). 
 
Please contact anita.shimmins at the Macquarie University Professional Experience office or ed.pe@mq.edu.au. if you are interested in taking preservice teachers.

Please enrol for our upcoming statewide staff meeting which will take place on Wednesday Week 7, 2 September at 3:30pm. The focus of the session will be on blended learning and will contribute 30 minutes of registered professional learning towards accreditation at Proficient.

Enrol via MyPL. The link to the session will be sent to you with your MyPL enrolment confirmation email.

Course code: RG12390
Agenda: Blended learning
Date: Wednesday 2 September 2020
Time: 3:30-4:00pm
Platform: Zoom
 
Can’t make the live session? The link to the recording will be shared after the meeting, to be logged as TIPD.

For further information, please contact Coreena Allen via email or call 0436 851 211. ​