Category: Programming

Stage 6 Beginners courses – planning day survey

11/12/2020

The Languages and Culture team is gauging interest in an online planning day for teachers from NSW public schools to facilitate programming for the Stage 6 Beginners courses for early 2021. If there is enough interest, the day will offer the opportunity to network/collaborate/program with teachers of the courses, to collaborate on programming ideas and approaches.

If you are interested, please complete the short survey by Friday 29 January 2021.

Please email Coreena Allen if you need further information.

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Planning Stage 6 school-based assessment programs

18/11/2019

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NESA has published information on preparing Year 11 assessment programs for 2020. You can find advice on:
- developing school-based assessment programs in Stage 6, including checklists for teachers
- formal assessment schedules
- adjustments for students with a disability.

Check your syllabus "Assessment and Reporting" documents available on syllabus pages for course specific requirements.

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Language Teacher Network – Illawarra – targeted languages professional learning

6/11/2019

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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.

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Support document for head teachers of languages (especially those without a languages teaching background)

6/8/2019

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The Languages and Culture team has developed a support document to assist non-languages trained head teachers and executive who supervise teachers of languages.

The document aims to:
- raise awareness of the importance of languages education
- provide an overview of language syllabuses K-10
- provide an overview of Stage 6 language syllabuses and eligibility requirements
- outline professional learning opportunities and support available to language teachers.

The document is available on our website, along with a comprehensive range of other resources for language teachers.

We also recommend the document for all language teachers and Head Teachers, Languages.

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Support document for head teachers of languages (especially those without a languages teaching background)

15/6/2019

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The Languages and Culture team has developed a support document to assist non-languages trained head teachers and executive who supervise teachers of languages, however we recommend all language teachers 7-12 read this important information.

The document aims to:
- raise awareness of the importance of languages education
- provide an overview of language syllabuses K-10
- provide an overview of Stage 6 language syllabuses and eligibility requirements
- outline professional learning opportunities and support available to language teachers.

The document is available on our website, along with a comprehensive range of other resources for language teachers.

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7-10 programming support and resources – new language syllabuses

29/5/2019

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The Languages and Culture team has published support for teachers 7-10 in implementing the new syllabuses:
- guidelines, which include information and advice on what you need to include in your program
- sample unit of work templates (we will include more samples soon)
- a backward mapping tool to plan your units of work
- information on embedding learning across the curriculum content.

All of the above can be accessed from the languages landing page for Stages 4 and 5 of the NSW Department of Education's website.

Also, we are gradually adding support to each of the language-specific pages, so please check back regularly to see what's new!

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NSW Department of Education languages 7-10 programming support workshops 2019

28/2/2019

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The Languages and Culture team are once again offering free collaborative languages 7-10 programming support workshops in 2019. These workshops are available for Stages 4 and 5 languages teachers in NSW public schools to reflect on the implications of the 8 new K-10 language syllabuses (Chinese, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Spanish) to be implemented from 2019 and to work with a facilitator to collaboratively program for a range of contexts.

Please read the attached flyer and complete the online eligibility form, as eligibility rules apply to attend.

Travel and accommodation subsidies for rural and remote teachers are available to attend.

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Stage 6 Beginners courses – planning day survey

Planning Stage 6 school-based assessment programs

Language Teacher Network – Illawarra – targeted languages professional learning

Support document for head teachers of languages (especially those without a languages teaching background)

Support document for head teachers of languages (especially those without a languages teaching background)

7-10 programming support and resources – new language syllabuses

NSW Department of Education languages 7-10 programming support workshops 2019

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