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Statewide staff meeting – purposeful assessment design

19/5/2022

Our Week 4 statewide staff meeting explored the topic 'Purposeful assessment design – building language skills across Stages 4-6', in particular:

- the importance of marking guidelines aligning to outcomes
- how marking guidelines can be used to support student growth across Stage 4 to 6.

If you were unable to attend the live session, the recording is available on our YouTube channel and we have attached the slide deck here.

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Language Teachers Network – Sydney North

17/3/2022

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The Language Teachers Network – Sydney North will hold its first meeting for 2022 as a full day event on Friday 8 April. The whole day will be delivered online.

This full day language network meeting day is made up of 2 parts. You must enrol in both sessions as we will be using ideas from part one in the afternoon:

- 9:00 am-12:00 pm – Languages and Literacy 7-12 – presented by the Languages and Culture team
- 1:00-3:00 pm – Language teachers network meeting. How can we use, alleviate and address language anxiety in:
- promoting languages at our school, (do we overtly address language anxiety)
- addressing it and overcoming it in our formative tasks
- alleviating it in assessment tasks to maximise student engagement and performance.

To enrol for the day you need to enrol in two sessions on MyPL:
1. Languages and Literacy 7-12, course code NR32663 – please select Languages and literacy 7-12 - Sydney North
2. Language teachers’ network meeting, course code NR25534 – please select Sydney North - Language Teacher Network meeting.

Please ensure you have approval from your principal and enrol by Tuesday 5 April.

For more information, please contact the network leader Margaret Wajs or Evia Kyriacou.

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Elective PD – K-10 syllabus familiarisation and planning eCourse

22/2/2022

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For Term 1 2022 (until the end of the April holidays), the Languages K-10 syllabuses – familiarisation and planning eCourse is available to all teachers 7-10 from all sectors.

From 2017-2019, NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) released new K-10 syllabuses for Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Modern Greek, Persian, Punjabi, Spanish, Tamil, Turkish and Vietnamese.

The course forms part of the support offered by the Languages and Culture team (Curriculum Secondary Learners – Learning Improvement) to assist teachers in implementing these syllabuses.

You will be prompted to create a login when entering the course, so your progress can be saved.

If you have any issues accessing the course, please contact Elisabeth Robertson.

Note to language teachers K-6: The primary version of this course, Languages K-10 syllabuses - eCourse for primary language teachers, is still available on MyPL, course code NR31491. This course is only available to teachers working for the NSW Department of Education. For more details about the primary course, please contact Stephen Nogher.

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Languages professional learning survey 2022

7/12/2021

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The Languages and Culture team would like to thank everyone who participated in our statewide staff meetings and professional learning sessions in 2021. We have enjoyed working and collaborating with you.

As we are planning ahead for 2022, we would like to find out more about your professional learning needs. We are asking public school teachers to help us by completing this short survey and sharing with us your preferences for next year.

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Statewide staff meeting – using short film in the language classroom

9/11/2021

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The languages statewide staff meeting in Week 7 will explore using short film in the language classroom. Join us on Tuesday 16 November, 4-5:00 pm. The session will be presented via Microsoft Teams.

In this session we will explore ways to inspire your students to learn and use language authentically.

You must enrol in the session on MyPL to receive the link to the online meeting. Search for course code NR29242, and select the session for Tuesday 16 November.
If you have enrolled in a previous statewide staff meeting on MyPL, you will get a notice on the top of the MyPL page that says, “completed”. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and select the Week 7, Term 4, 2021 session, then select 'Enrol' (at the top).

The link for each statewide staff meeting is different, so you need to enrol in each session we offer.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Language Teacher Network – Sydney Greater West

28/10/2021

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The Sydney Greater West Language Teacher Network will hold its Term 4 meeting on Friday 12 November. The focus of the meeting will be Languages and literacy 7-12.

Enrol via MyPL and select the appropriate session:
Course code: NR32663
Session: Languages and literacy 7-12 - Greater West
Date: 12 November
Time: 1:30-4:45 pm
Venue: Online via Microsoft Teams

You will receive the link to the meeting with your enrolment confirmation email from MyPL.
For more information and details, contact the network leader Amanda Singh or Evia Kyriacou.

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Language Teacher Network – Armidale

19/10/2021

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The Armidale Language Teacher Network will present the Languages and literacy 7-12 professional learning course in 2 sessions:
- Monday 25 October, 3:30-5:15 pm
- Monday 8 November, 3:30-5:15 pm.

You will need to enrol via MyPL and select Languages and literacy 7-12 – Armidale - session 1.
Course code: NR32663
Enrolments close: 22 October, 5 pm
Venue: Online via Microsoft Teams

You will receive the link to the meeting when you enrol on MyPL.
For more information and details, contact the network leader Deborah Moore or Evia Kyriacou.

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Language Teacher Network – Sydney South West

12/10/2021

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The Sydney South West Language Teacher Network will hold its Term 4 meeting on Monday 18 October. The focus of the meeting will be Languages and literacy 7-12.

Enrol via MyPL and select the appropriate session:
Course code: NR32663
Session: Languages and literacy 7-12 - Sydney South West
Enrolments close: 15 October, 5 pm
Date: Monday 18 October 2021
Time: 1:30-4:45 pm
Venue: Online via Microsoft Teams

You will receive the link to the meeting when you enrol on MyPL.
For more information and details, contact the network leader Adele Walker or Evia Kyriacou.

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HSC-style oral examination support

23/8/2021

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The Languages and Culture team is organising professional learning for conducting and marking HSC-style oral examinations on Wednesday 1 September 2021, at 4 pm.

This professional learning will consist of:
a. general information session – where are we now and why?
b. general session on conducting/marking an HSC-style oral exam, addressing your concerns
c. language-specific collaborative marking groups, with experienced markers.

The session will run for approximately 1.5 hours.

Please register using this form by 5 pm Sunday 29 August. We will forward you the Zoom link on Wednesday morning, the day of the session.

The session is open to teachers of all sectors – please complete the form to receive the meeting link.

The session will not be recorded due to the use of breakout rooms.

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Resources and professional learning for all languages from SICLE

29/7/2021

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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.

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Language Teacher Network – Armidale

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