The Secondary College of Languages (formerly known as Saturday School of Community Languages) is seeking teachers for the following campuses:
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- Greek teacher – Stage 5 – Kogarah Campus
- Chinese teacher – Stage 4 – Smith’s Hill Campus

To express your interest and for further information, please contact Martina Naso on 02 7814 3725.

Seeking experienced teachers of Chinese, German, Japanese, French and/or Latin to be mentors in the Virtual Languages Mentoring Network (VLMN) program.

Are you an experienced teacher of Chinese, German, Japanese, French and/or Latin? We are currently finalising the new 2022-2023 cohort of the VLMN program and are looking for experienced teachers of these languages who are interested in mentoring the 2022-2023 cohort of beginning language teachers.

The VLMN was established in 2017 to support beginning language teachers 7-12. Beginning and geographically remote teachers of languages often work as the only language teacher in the school and have specific needs which cannot always be met at the school level.

Beginning and/or isolated language teachers (mentees) are matched with an experienced language teacher (mentor) for the duration of the VLMN program. The VLMN program will begin with a centrally-located conference for both mentors and mentees. The Languages and Culture team will provide release to participants to facilitate mentoring support and to attend targeted professional learning for the duration of the VLMN program.

The VLMN will:
• identify professional learning needs for mentees and mentors
• implement evidence-based mentoring practices to develop the capacity of mentees
• support teachers of languages in working towards and maintaining accreditation at a range of career stages
• build the capacity of virtual and face-to-face language teacher networks
• provide significant professional development opportunities for all mentors and mentees.

The VLMN includes the program leaders from the Languages and Culture team, and school-based language teacher mentors working to support the mentee teachers.

If you are interested in becoming a mentor, please email your EOI to Shanelle Ingram by 5 pm on Wednesday 9 February 2022.

Macquarie University is seeking placements for preservice language teachers in Sydney’s western suburbs.

Details of placements:

Chinese
20 days – 13 day block from 29 November to 15 December, plus 7 days prior to block.
Remuneration – $680
Spanish
20 days  – 13 day block from 29 November to 15 December, plus 7 days prior to block.
Remuneration – $680
French
15 days  – 15 day block from 8-26 November.
Remuneration – $510

Preservice teachers can complete their placements in Stages 4, 5 or 6.

For further information, please email Lillian Fattouh at the Professional Experience Team at Macquarie School of Education.

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.

​Stage 6 Literacy in context – Writing in languages is now live! This suite of resources is designed to support student writing development in languages based on current research to support student literacy.
These Stage 6 resources have been created to enable teachers to use content they are working with in class to improve the quality of students' written responses in English (to a stimulus text in the target language) and in student responses in the language they are learning. They contain videos and downloadable activities on subject vocabulary, planning for writing and student writing and feedback.
You can use these resources individually, as a faculty, or as part of a whole-school literacy team. By using these resources, you can also register hours for Elective PD.

Western Sydney University is seeking placements for preservice teachers in the following languages:
Chinese – 4
Arabic – 2
Armenian – 1
The placements period is from 24 May to 11 June 2021 but can be flexible as per school’s needs.
For further information and details on the placement description, please email Kay Carroll.

University of Sydney is seeking placements for Master of Teaching Year 2 and Combined Degree Year 4 preservice teachers in the following languages:

Master of Teaching Year 2:
Chinese – 4
Period of placement: 3-21 May (15 days)
Remuneration: $510 per student
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Combined Degree Year 4:
Spanish – 2
Korean – 1
Chinese – 3
Period of placement: 3 May to 4 June (25 days)
Remuneration: $850 per student     
 
Please contact the Office Secondary Professional Experience Coordinator at Univeristy of Sydney if you are interested in supervising preservice teachers. 

The University of Sydney is seeking placements for Combined Degree Year 4 preservice teachers in the following languages:
 
Spanish – 1
Chinese – 5
German – 1
Modern Greek – 1
Korean – 2
 
The internship placement will run from 1 to 26 February 2021. Remuneration is $660 per student.
 
Please contact the Office Secondary Professional Experience Coordinator at Sydney University if you are interested in taking preservice teachers. 

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.