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.
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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.

The Multicultural Research Centre is organising a conference on The Value of Languages in a Multicultural World, 13-15 December 2021, and are calling for papers.
 
In a culturally and linguistically diverse world in which languages are as mobile as people, goods and information, how multicultural societies understand and respond to the value of languages is a key question. The aim of this international online conference is to address this question at multiple levels of policy and practice.
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Abstracts are invited for individual presentations and symposia that address issues of multiculturalism and multilingualism. They may fall into one of the following streams or be on any other topic relevant to the conference theme of multilingualism.
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Themes

• ​- Language learning and use in the community
• - Indigenous languages
• - Multilingualism, technologies and literacies in education
• - Learning and using English in a multilingual society
• - Multilingualism in social and professional life
• - Geographies of multilingualism
• - Media, popular culture and communications

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Plenary speakers
​Jannis Androutsopoulos (University of Hamburg)

• Alice Chik (Macquarie University)
• Natascha Klocker (University of Wollongong)
• Terry Lamb (University of Westminster)
• Jill Vaughan (University of Melbourne)
• Katharina Wolf (Curtin University)

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More information can be found on the website and the attached flyer.

The International Conference on Community/Heritage Language Education organised by SICLE will be held on 11-13 November 2021 at the University of Sydney.

The conference will explore community/heritage language education and its key role in maintaining and developing intergenerational linguistic and cultural understandings. The conference brings together researchers, school leaders, teachers, community members, parents and students. There will be research and classroom strands along with language specific sessions.

Would you be interested in sharing your effective practice and expertise? Please consider presenting a workshop at the conference. The Call for Papers is now open.

For more information and to submit a proposal please click http://icchle.org/

This is a unique, statewide professional learning opportunity for teachers of Chinese K-12 in government and non-government schools.​ Interested teachers can register via the RegoDirect event page.

Date: Friday 18 October 2019
Venue: The Grace Hotel, 77 York Street, Sydney
Time: 8:30am to 4pm

Registration closes on Friday 11 October 2019.

Please see the attached flyer for detailed information.

The 2019 Chinese Language Teachers’ Conference is being organised for K-12 teachers of Chinese across NSW to support teachers in implementing the new Chinese K-10 syllabus, particularly in assessment and reporting, as well as to explore 4Cs activities (critical reflection, creative thinking, communication and collaboration) in the context of Chinese language learning to support students in thriving within school and beyond.

The conference will be held on Friday 18 October 2019. Further details regarding conference venue,  agenda and registration will be made available in early Term 3.

The 2019 Chinese Language Teachers’ Conference will be held on Friday 14 June 2019. NSW Department of Education is seeking Chinese language teachers to present at this conference.

Workshop for which we are seeking presenters are:
- developing engaging resources for Chinese language classrooms
- innovative and effective teaching and learning strategies
- integrating KLA in Chinese language teaching and learning
- team teaching and collaboration
- incorporating games in Chinese language teaching and learning
- raising the profile of Chinese language teachers
- others.
 
Session brief:
- workshop sessions are 45 minutes
- teachers may submit a joint EOI to present together.
 
All applications require the signature of the applicant’s current principal. Please complete the EOI form below, and email as a PDF to elizabeth.wang1@det.nsw.edu.au by 5pm on Monday 25 March 2019.
 
Successful applicants will be notified by email by Friday 29 March 2019.
 
For further information, please contact Elizabeth Wang – Acting Confucius Institute Officer on 92668941 or via email, elizabeth.wang1@det.nsw.edu.au.

The Languages and Culture team is seeking teachers to present at the German Teachers’ Conference, to be held on Friday 22 March 2019 at the Goethe-Institut, Sydney.

The theme of the conference is Blick in die Zukunft – Looking to the future.

Workshop themes for which we are seeking presenters are:

• - new K-10 German syllabus programming, assessment and reporting
• - Stage 6 assessment strategies [German Beginners and Continuers]
• - new Stage 6 HSC Extension course prescribed texts and/or themes
• - innovative and effective classroom teaching and learning strategies
• - other.

All applications require the signature of the applicant’s current principal. Please complete the EOI form below, and email as a PDF to maxine.acosta4@det.nsw.edu.au by 5pm on Friday 15 February 2019.

For further information, see attached form or contact Maxine Acosta – Language Officer on 9266 8540 or at maxine.acosta4@det.nsw.edu.au.

This EOI form is for NSW Department of Education teachers only.

For independent school teachers wishing to present, please contact MWahlin@aisnsw.edu.au.

The Languages and Culture team (Secondary Education – Learning and Teaching Directorate) is running a Preservice Language Teachers' Conference on 16 November 2018.
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​Due to low enrolments from preservice teachers, we are opening up the conference to beginning teachers in their first two years of teaching.

​If you are a beginning teacher and interested in attending this event, please send a copy of your tertiary transcript for the Education/Teaching course you have completed (for graduates 2016-2017) to darlene.knowles@det.nsw.edu.au to receive the enrolment link.

If you teach preservice teachers, have contact with practicum students or know a beginning language teacher, please let them know about this FREE-OF-CHARGE event.

Further details are provided in the attached flyers for both beginning teachers and preservice teachers.

Participants will be engaged in targeted workshops (based on identified needs from the tertiary sector), including:
- student engagement and advocacy
- managing multi-level classrooms
- future-focused learning in the languages classroom
- engaging teaching strategies
- time management.

There will also be plenary sessions presented by:
- TEACH.NSW
- NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA)
- the NSW branch of the Modern Language Teachers’ Association (MLTA).

​Participants will have the opportunity to network with experienced teachers of their specific target language, and build relationships with preservice/beginning teachers from other NSW institutions.

All plenary and workshop sessions align strongly with Standard 6.1 and Standard 7.4 of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.

Attendance can be logged as Evidence for Accreditation in the participants’ professional learning journals, as a record of engagement to achieve Proficient Teacher.

Morning and afternoon tea are provided.
 
Assistance with travel/accommodation available upon request.