Category: Italian

Book now for your 2020 bilingual puppet show – Puss in boots

13/11/2019

Puss in boots, a bilingual interactive puppet show by Carrousel Theatre, will be touring in NSW from Monday 15 to Friday 26 June 2020. Book now for your 2020 bilingual show available in French, Italian, German or Spanish. It is suitable for primary and secondary schools, up to Year 8. We adapt the language of the show to suit the age group attending.
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Price: $6.90 (+ GST) per student.

Contact 03 93765527, email or view the website for more information.

Expressions of interest – language-specific writing groups for Stages 4 and 5

30/5/2019

Expressions of interest are invited from teachers/head teachers of languages who would like to be part of language-specific writing teams to develop language-specific resources for the NSW Department of Education’s curriculum website, including sample scope and sequences, units of work and assessment tasks for Stages 4 and 5.

Each language-specific writing team will consist of up to 3 teachers for each of the following languages:
- Arabic
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Modern Greek.

Language-specific writers are required to have expertise in the target language and to be experienced in programming the new K-10 syllabuses for Stages 4 and 5. Applicants must have successfully completed the Languages K-10 syllabus familiarisation and planning workshop in 2018 (RG03190 or RG03191).

Successful applicants will be required to attend 1 full-day of training at our offices at Oxford St, Darlinghurst, followed by 4 writing days, at a location and on dates negotiated by each writing team. Successful applicants will also be required to complete Languages K-10 syllabus familiarisation and planning eCourse (RG04277), as part of their training.

The training day will be held on Monday 29 July 2019.

The Languages and Culture team will provide release for the training day and subsequent writing days. Travel and accommodation costs may also be reimbursed, if required.

To apply, please complete the attached EOI form and email as a PDF to Marcela Ayas by 5pm Friday 29 June 2019.

For further information contact Marcela Ayas, A/Language Officer on 9266 8540.

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Burwood Girls High School seeks French and Italian teacher for 2019

9/10/2018

Burwood Girls HS is seeking a French and Italian teacher for Stages 4 to 6 for all of 2019 while a staff member is on leave.

Applicants must be able to teach both languages up to Continuers level, and ability to teach the Extension course in one or both languages would be highly regarded.

Interested teachers are invited to send an Expression of Interest and a copy of their CV, with Department of Education employee details and WWCC number, to Ed Kent - Head Teacher of Languages.

International cooking incursions

15/11/2017

Piatto perfetto can host Italian, German, French, Chinese, Japanese and Spanish cooking incursions.
Bookings for 2018 are now being taken.
Further details can be accessed in the flyer and on the Piatto Perfetto website.

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Seeking teachers for 2018/2019 - Dubbo School of Distance Education

14/11/2017

Dubbo School of Distance Education is seeking a qualified German teacher for 2018 and Term 1 2019.

We are also seeking qualified teachers of Italian, Spanish and French for a few days a week in 2018.

These are temporary positions with a possibility of extension into 2019.

Please send applications to Dubbo School of Distance Education or email Anna Brain, Head Teacher, Languages.

K-10 draft languages syllabuses

30/6/2017

French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Korean and Spanish teachers in the NSW Department of Education participated in the Adobe Connect webinar on Wednesday 28 June to hear about the K-10 draft syllabuses and have an opportunity to provide feedback.

If you were not able to join the Adobe Connect webinar, the recording (24 minutes) can be accessed via
https://connect.schools.nsw.edu.au/p2ufx07rdcg/.

The consultation period is the only opportunity for teachers to be part of the department’s feedback to NESA. Teachers are encouraged to download and critically review the content in the language-specific draft K-10 syllabuses.

All information including the draft syllabuses can be accessed on the NESA site.

If you have any concerns with the content in the draft syllabuses, please document the areas of concern and recommendations and return via email to janelle.byrne@det.nsw.edu.au by Monday 10 July 2017. Please include the following details to ensure your concerns can be clearly understood and incorporated in our response:
Language:
Issue:
Content with page numbers as reference: eg. p. 82 First dot point, second dash point (“recognising the importance of the article…”)
Recommendations such as Suggest amending/rewording/deleting to …

We look forward to hearing from teachers to ensure the content of the language-specific syllabuses is relevant and appropriate for the students in all languages classes.

Webinar - Languages K-10 draft syllabuses

21/6/2017

French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Korean and Spanish teachers in the NSW Department of Education are invited to join the Adobe Connect webinar on Wednesday 28 June (3:30-4:30pm) to hear about the draft K-10 syllabuses and have an opportunity to provide feedback.

Teachers are encouraged to download and critically review the content in the language-specific draft K-10 syllabuses which can be accessed on the NESA site. This consultation period is the only opportunity for teachers to be part of the department’s feedback to NESA.

If you haven't participated in an Adobe Connect session before, please download the 'how-to' guide below and follow the instructions. It's easy!
Log into https://connect.schools.nsw.edu.au/secondarylanguages using your Department user name and password.

We look forward to meeting virtually with teachers to ensure the content of the language-specific K-10 syllabuses is relevant and appropriate for the students in your languages classes.

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Consultation on K-10 draft languages syllabuses

13/6/2017

NESA has released K-10 draft syllabuses for French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Korean and Spanish.

The NSW Department of Education is conducting state-wide consultation for DoE teachers on these draft syllabuses from 13-29 June 2017. This consultation period is the only opportunity for teachers to be part of the department’s feedback to NESA. (Note: Other education sectors run their own consultation).

As a DoE teacher, if you'd like to be part of our consultation, here's what you need to do:
1. Download the relevant draft language-specific K-10 syllabus from the NESA website.

2. Carefully read through the draft syllabus which is relevant to you. If you have any areas of concern or strength within any of the draft languages syllabuses, please submit via email to Janelle Byrne by Thursday 29 June 2017.

3. Attend the Adobe Connect session on Wednesday 28 June (3:30-4:30pm) by logging into https://connect.schools.nsw.edu.au/secondarylanguages.
If you haven't participated in an Adobe Connect session before, please download the 'how-to' guide below and follow the instructions. It's easy!

4. Complete the NESA online survey by 7 August 2017.

Teachers are encouraged to participate in the NESA-led consultation opportunities in addition to departmental consultation. Full details including the NESA consultation meetings are available on the NESA website.

Contact details: Janelle Byrne on 9266 8540 or janelle.byrne@det.nsw.edu.au

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NESA Official Notice: Amendments to Stage 6 Languages Continuers exam specifications

15/2/2017

To provide more flexibility in the development of exams, minor amendments to the exam specifications for Stage 6 Languages Continuers: Section I – Listening and Responding have been made in the following courses:

- Arabic
- Chinese
- French
- German
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Modern Greek
- Spanish.

The following amended exam specifications will be implemented from the 2017 HSC exams:

- maximum text length has been increased from approximately 60 seconds to approximately 80 seconds
- exams will have approximately nine items instead of approximately 10 items.

The revised specifications are in the Stage 6 Continuers Languages Assessment and Reporting document and available to download via the HSC syllabus page.

For more information, contact:
Lyn Sully
Inspector, Languages
lyn.sully@nesa.nsw.edu.au

NESA Official Notice: Amendments to Stage 6 Languages Extension exam rubrics

15/2/2017

Minor amendments have been made to the exam rubrics for Stage 6 Languages Extension: Section II – Writing in the following courses:

- Arabic
- Chinese
- French
- German
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Modern Greek
- Spanish.

The following amendments to the rubrics will be effective for 2017 HSC exams:

- ‘present and explain or justify a point of view’ has been changed to ‘present and justify a point of view’ to improve clarity
- ‘write text appropriate to context and/or purpose and/or audience’ has been changed to ‘write text appropriate to audience, purpose and context’ to more closely align with the intention and wording of the exam specifications.

The revised exam rubrics can be downloaded from the HSC syllabus page for each of the Stage 6 Languages Extension courses.

For more information, contact:
Tracey McIntosh
Manager, Examining and Testing
tracey.mcintosh@nesa.nsw.edu.au
(02) 9367 8233