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

The AFMLTA has mapped the Professional Standards for Accomplished Teaching of Languages and Cultures to the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers, creating the Aligning Standards documents.
The links below may provide support for working with the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers in developing Professional Development Plans.
Teachers of languages may wish to use these documents to evaluate professional practice. 
The following links direct teachers to a PDF document of the language-specific standards which have been developed:
Aligning Standards CHINESE
Aligning Standards FRENCH
Aligning Standards GERMAN
Aligning Standards INDONESIAN
Aligning Standards ITALIAN
Aligning Standards JAPANESE
Aligning Standards SPANISH

To see the alignment and illustrations of practice, visit the Language Learning Space’s Professional Standards for Language Teachers:

• - Teachers of Chinese: http://www.lls.edu.au/teacherspace/professionallearning/250
• - Teachers of Japanese: http://www.lls.edu.au/teacherspace/professionallearning/2073
• - Teachers of Indonesian: http://www.lls.edu.au/teacherspace/professionallearning/1136

Explore the professional teaching standards through the lens of language teaching practice and look at some video examples of the standards at work in language classrooms. 

All teachers of Languages (F-10) are invited to participate in the AFMLTA Ready? Set? Go! Australian Curriculum: Languages (AC:L) Professional Learning Program

This one-day workshop will:

v  promote and support a national conversation around the AC:L

v  stimulate thinking about and opportunities to engage with the curriculum materials

v  provide teachers with a balance of theory and practice through language specific exemplification

v  support teachers in beginning to trial the curriculum in classrooms around Australia

v  link with the AFMLTA and AITSL Professional Standards and provide a certificate identifying standards addressed

The program includes three interactive modules, based on the shape and design of the AC:L, and working  with the language specific curricula across the pathways.

Following the one day workshop in Sydney, participants will be able to collaborate online with other Languages teachers involved in these workshops being held around Australia in March. Connect with colleagues across the country to share teaching approaches and resources to support implementation of the Australian Curriculum: Languages.  

Register online by Monday 2 March to be part of this national Professional Learning opportunity!

The Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers’ Associations (AFMLTA) is implementing a national Professional Learning program in March 2015 to orientate teachers of Languages across Australia to the Australian Curriculum: Languages. For this program the AFMLTA will develop two interactive units based on the shape and design of the Australian Curriculum: Languages, and working with the language specific curricula across the pathways.

The Modern Languages Teachers’ Association of NSW (MLTA NSW) is now seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified and capable members to nominate to:

· Attend a train-the-trainer workshop in Melbourne on Saturday 14 February 2015 (Travel expenses covered by MLTANSW and AFMLTA)

· Co-present with a member of the AFMLTA training team a one day face-to face program for NSW teachers on Saturday 21 March 2015

Please complete and submit the Expression of Interest form attached and return to gillian.cordy@syd.catholic.edu.au by Friday 19 December 2014.