In Term 4, the Languages and Culture team is delivering Assessment and reporting in 7-10 – new languages syllabuses workshops.
 
The workshops are for language teachers of Stages 4 and 5 in NSW public schools, and are NESA registered for 5 hours. 
 
This workshop leads language teachers through the changes they will need to make to assessment and reporting in order to align with the new K-10 syllabuses.
 
There are 4 workshops planned for Term 4:

• Monday 26 October
• Friday 6 November
• Thursday 12 November
• Tuesday 24 November.

Full details, including enrolment details will be published Week 1, Term 4.​

Just in time for Term 4, we have developed a generic 10-week Stage 4 party unit.

The unit has been developed to support you in differentiating and adjusting teaching, learning and assessment activities to support a range of students.

Our aim was to provide you with key information, in a practical and user-friendly way.

Differentiation and adjustments depend on the individual students in your class, so we have included a comprehensive range of examples – you will need to modify these, or include your own, to support individual student needs.

​You can find the unit on the Stages 4 and 5 section of our website, under the heading Programming in Stages 4 and 5. Alternatively, it's on each of the language-specific Stages 4 and 5 pages.

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.