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Registrations open for Hunter/Central Coast Language Teachers' conference

24/1/2020

The Hunter/Central Coast Language Teachers' conference will be held on Saturday 22 February 2020 at the Rydges Hotel, Newcastle. This event is open to all language teachers from all regions and sectors including preservice teachers.
Cost of the conference is $150 for teachers and $50 for preservice teachers. The conference will run from 8:30am-4:15pm with morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea provided.
For session and registration information please refer to the conference form. Numbers are limited and are on a first come, first served basis. Registrations close on Friday 7 February.
For further information please contact Coreena Allen.

Sydney South West – Term 4 network meeting

19/11/2019

The Language Teacher Network – Sydney South West will hold its Term 4 meeting on Thursday 5 December. The meeting will take the form of a 2-hour teacher identified professional learning. The focus of this session will be to support teachers to cater for students with additional needs and or disabilities in the languages classroom.

Date: Thursday 5 December 2019
Time: 1:30-3:30pm
Venue: Holroyd High School
Enrolment via MyPL: search for course code NR25534 and select session Term 4 Languages Network Meeting (Sydney South West)

All language teachers living or working in the area are welcome to attend.

For further information please contact Suzanne Safi or call 9631 9410.

Language teachers' network meeting – Newcastle/ Hunter

18/11/2019

The Language Teacher Network – Newcastle/ Hunter will hold its Term 4 meeting on Thursday 5 December. The meeting will take the form of a 1-hour meeting collaborating on assessment task, and is Teacher Identified professional learning.

In addition, all are warmly welcome to the Hunter Region end of year celebration which will take place after the meeting, from 6:00pm at the Canon Bar, Warners Bay.
Date: Thursday 5 December 2019
Time: 4:30-5:30pm
Venue: Warners Bay High School

Please enrol via MyPL course code NR18042 and select session "Hunter Network Meeting Term 4 2019".

All language teachers living or working in the area are welcome to attend.

For further information please contact Coreena Allen.

Sydney Greater West – Language teachers' network meeting

18/11/2019

The Language Teacher Network – Sydney Greater West will hold its Term 4 meeting on Monday 9 December at the Ponds High School. The focus will be on:
- analysing task elements
- looking at supporting the role of languages and culture, presented by Kate Wang (Rouse Hill HS).

When: Monday 9 December 2019
Time: 3:30-5:30pm
Venue: The Ponds High School
Enrol on MyPL: Browse NR25534 and select Language teacher network – Sydney Greater West – Term 4 2019
Contact: Amanda Singh

All language teachers working or living in the area are welcome to attend.

Language Teacher Network – Illawarra – targeted languages professional learning

6/11/2019

The Language Teacher Network – Illawarra will hold a professional learning day for languages on Wednesday 4 December.

The professional learning will take the form of a programming day targeting the languages taught in the schools of our area. Teachers will revisit sample templates of units of work, scope and sequences and assessment tasks available on the department's website. They will work in language-specific groups – Chinese, French, German, Italian and Japanese – and will program for Stages 4 and 5 for 2020, according to the new K-10 language syllabuses. Participants will have the opportunity to peer-review the resources created and provide feedback. The plan is that each language group will create the following resources:
- scope and sequence
- assessment schedule
- units of work
- assessment task.

Please bring along your syllabuses, assessment schedules for 2020, devices and any resources you are planning to use on the day.

Date: Wednesday 4 December 2019
Time: 8:30am-3:30pm
Venue: Smiths High School
Enrol: MyPL – course code NR25838

Please enrol via MyPL course code NR25838 and select session Term 4 targeted languages professional learning.

All teachers living or working in the area are welcome to attend.

For further information please contact Kristen Smith or Evia Kyriacou or call 78142820.

Language teachers' network meeting – Queanbeyan

6/11/2019

The Language Teacher Network – Queanbeyan will hold its Term 4 meeting on Wednesday 27 November. The meeting will take the form of a 2-hour meeting, and will include 1.5 hours of registered professional learning on "Shifting thinking – new K-10 language syllabuses".
Date: Wednesday 27 November 2019
Time: 3:30pm-5:30pm
Venue: Finigan School of Distance Education, 77 Agnes Avenue, Queanbeyan
Enrol: MyPL – course code RG04794

Please enrol via MyPL course code RG04974 and select session "Shifting thinking – Finigan School of Distance Education".

All teachers living or working in the area are welcome to attend.

For further information please contact Amanda Rowe or call 02 6210 5286.

OUR TOP 10 ASSESSMENT TASKS 7-10 – Term 4 statewide Adobe Connect – Wednesday 6 November

23/10/2019

As promised and as part of our new direction of our statewide Adobe Connects, we will be running short professional sessions to better support teachers in the classroom.

On this term’s agenda, we will be unpacking our top 10 favourite tasks which teachers across the state developed via our programming workshops and eCourse.

All language teachers 7-12 in NSW public schools are invited to participate. The webinar contributes towards 30 minutes of teacher-identified professional learning addressing Standards 6.2.2 and 6.4.2 of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.

Join us online via the Secondary Languages Adobe Connect room on Wednesday 6 November from 3:30-4:00pm.

As the webinar runs as a one-direction session, you will not need a microphone or be required to speak.

For participants new to using Adobe Connect, please see the attached how-to-guide below.

We look forward to meeting you in the secondary languages meeting room.

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SICLE seminar series – Michael Clyne Lecture 2019

21/10/2019

Professor Tognolini, the director of the Educational Measurement and Assessment Centre at the University of Sydney. is presenting the core elements of Modern Assessment Theory. The talk is entitled “Assessing languages: Accounting for language in and outside the classroom.”

Date: Thursday 21 November
Time: 5-6pm
Venue: University of Sydney, Level 3 Room 351, Education Building A35 Manning Road

Registration is free. For further information, please contact Emily Bai.

Language Teacher Network – Sydney North, Term 4 meeting

15/10/2019

The Language Teacher Network – Sydney North is holding its Term 4 meeting on Monday 28 October.

The meeting will have 2 parts:
1. The network meeting will run for 2 hours and will focus on the new Extension support materials.
2. For teachers who would like to stay on, the network meeting will be followed by the Stage 6 school-based assessment in languages course which will contribute to 2.5 hours of registered professional learning.

All languages teachers living and/or working in the area are welcome to attend.

For detailed information please visit the original post on this page or contact Margaret Wajs or Evia Kyriacou.

Sydney South Language Teacher Network – Dr Conti

10/10/2019

The Language teacher network - Sydney South will hold its Term 4 meeting on Wednesday 30 October. Guest speaker and presenter at the meeting will be Dr Gianfranco Conti, author and founder of the Language Gym. Dr Conti will present and demonstrate his L.A.M. (listening as modelling) approach, a methodology which promotes extensive practice in the bottom-up micro-skills essential for effective listening comprehension. The meeting will contribute towards 2 hours of registered professional learning.

Date: Wednesday 30 October 2019
Time: 4:00-6:00pm
Venue: Hurstville Club Central
Enrol: via MyPL course code RG05055

All language teachers working and/or living in the area are welcome to attend.

For further information please contact Gaelle Homma.

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