The Language Teacher Network – Central Coast will hold its Term 2 meeting on Wednesday 24 June 2020. 

The focus of the meeting will be:

• 1. TeachMeet – Sustainable Skills Showcase
  • - Please come prepared to share ONE tool/strategy/technique/reflection on what worked well this year (during online teaching) that you will continue to use in your classroom. This doesn’t have to be a presentation, just a chat but you are welcome to put a few (5 max) slides together if you would like to.
  • - We will collate these to share within the network to support each other.


• 2. TPRS/CI – overview and brief update from those who have been experimenting in their classrooms.
  • - What is TPRS/CI?
  • - How have network members been experimenting with this approach in their classrooms?


• 3. 2020 Network Planning.

Enrol via MyPL.
Course code: NR25533
Session: Central Coast Language Network Meeting Term 2 2020
Date: Wednesday 24 June 2020
Time: 4:00pm-5:30pm
Venue: Zoom
Link: https://nsweducation.zoom.us/j/68483095234?pwd=Z3grVnFESk9YcmJ4MERENjFpdGFuQT09
Meeting ID: 684 8309 5234
Password: 911866

For further information, please contact the network leader, Katherine Brownlee.

The Language Teacher Network – Sydney South will hold its Term 2 meeting on Thursday 25 June 2020. 
The focus of the meeting will be:
- Getting to know each other, current challenges and reporting given our current context. 
- Update on resources available from the Languages and Culture team and the department

Enrol via MyPL.
Course code: NR18042
Session: Sydney South – Languages Network Meeting
Date: Thursday 25 June 2020
Time: 3:30pm-4:00pm
Venue: Zoom
Link: https://nsweducation.zoom.us/j/7292772703?pwd=dVkyVEJRclBUQ00rMU1tTmdwRXdLQT09
Meeting ID: 729 277 2703
Password: 2n0VGi

For further information, please contact the network leader, Marina Azmy. 

The Language Teacher Network – Sydney North will hold its Term 2 network meeting on 23 June 2020. 
The focus of the meeting will be sharing things that worked, remarkable finds, looking over the past as life is getting back to a new normal, and making a plan for the next meeting.

Date: Tuesday 23 June 2020
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: Zoom
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4145770390
Code: 4145770390

Enrol via MyPL.
Course code: NR18042
Session: Language Teachers Network Meeting Sydney North.

For further information, please contact the network leader, Margaret Wajs.  

​Don’t forget this Wednesday 20 May at 3:30 pm and join us for a bit of fun. It's as simple as clicking on the link. We are really looking forward to it! See you there! (Note: As we are hosting on the DoE version of Zoom, there is a limit of 100 participants.)

Illawarra – Language Teacher Network will hold its Term 2 meeting on Thursday 14 May. The meeting will focus on members' experiences of online learning. It will take place via Zoom. 

Date: Thursday 14 May 2020
Time: 3:30pm
Venue: Zoom
Meeting ID: 683-9635-3895
Password: 8J1v32

Enrol via MyPL.
Course code: NR18042
Session: CNI Languages network meeting – Term 2 2020

For further information, please contact Evia Kyriacou or Kristen Smith.

The newly-formed Language Teacher Network – Armidale will hold its inaugural meeting on Tuesday 31 March at Armidale Secondary College. The focus will be on developing assessment ideas for Stages 4 and 5, and planning for 2020. 

Date: Tuesday 31 March 2020
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Venue: Armidale Secondary College, 56-72 Crest Rd, Armidale, Japanese room 110
Enrol: Search for course NR25533 on MyPL
Session: Armidale Language Network

The session will provide 1.5 hours of teacher identified PL. 
All language teachers are invited to attend. 
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For more information contact Deb Moore or call 6772 1266.

The Language Teacher Network – Queanbeyan is holding the first meeting for 2020 on Wednesday 11 March. The focus will be on planning the network's direction for 2020 and Stages 4 and 5 assessment. 

Date: Wednesday 11 March 2020
Time: 4:00pm-5:00pm
Venue: Finigan School of Distance Education 
Enrol: via MyPL course code NR18042 and select session "Language Teachers' Network Meeting - Queanbeyan Region"

For more information, contact Amanda Rowe or call (02) 6210 5286

Venue: Gosford High School (Languages block)
Date: Thursday 2 April 2020
Time: 3:45pm for 4:00-5:30pm (please arrive by 3:45pm)
Agenda: 2020 planning and upcoming professional learning events for Languages on the Central Coast

• Professional learning (presentation and TeachMeet): Teaching with Comprehensible Input/Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling

Many network members attended the TPRS session at the recent Hunter/Central Coast conference and this meeting has been planned to give network members a chance to share their experiences in experimenting with this approach. So if possible, try something out before the meeting and share in the TeachMeet session. Don’t worry if you weren’t there and don’t know what we’re talking about – still come along and share ideas and experiences! 
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Registration: Search for course code NR25533 on MyPL and select the Central Coast Network Meeting Term 1 2020.

The Language Teacher Network – Sydney CBD/East will hold its Term 1 meeting on Thursday 19 March.

This session will focus on the implementation of effective teaching, learning and assessment strategies to incorporate skills-focused assessment in Languages. Marnie Foster, Head of Languages at Newington College will present her school's journey over the last few years of re-shaping assessment from knowledge and test-based to more skills-focused. Concepts such as goal setting, growth mindset, peer evaluation, teacher feedback, student work portfolios, and accumulation of work samples will be illustrated with examples.
 
Event: Term 1 2020 Languages Network meeting Sydney CBD/East
Topic:  Rethinking assessment in Languages
Date and time: Week 8 Thursday 19 March 4:00-5:30 pm
Venue: NSW School of Languages 35 West St, Petersham
 
Course code on MyPL: RG10334
Enrolment via MyPL: Search for course code RG10334​ and select session NSW School of Languages
 
This is open to all language teachers, free of charge, under the Languages and Culture team's networking project. Please share the information to other interested language teachers. All language teachers living or working in the area are welcome to attend.

For further information please contact Ke Fan or call 02 9381 4823.