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New resources from  Australian Children's Television Foundation

24/2/2021

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​Australian Children's Television Foundation has released a TV series in various languages for use in the language classroom.

They include:
Lockie Leonard – based on the award winning novels by author Tim Winton is available in French, German and Portuguese
Mortified – includes an online teaching resource and is available in French, German and Italian.

These resources are rated PG and are available as digital downloads in the ACTF website.
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SICLE resources portal – support for community languages

28/1/2021

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Sydney Institute for Community Languages Education (SICLE) has a portal to bring together available resources to support teaching both in out-of-hours community languages schools and primary and secondary schools. 
Resources are available for 12 community languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Japanese and Korean. Resources are organised across 7 topic areas and 3 language proficiency levels, and generic resources for all languages categorised into 3 sections:
  • - professional learning
  • - programming
  • - strategies and resources.
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New sample scope and sequence documents for Stage 5 French, German and Italian

27/10/2020

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We have just published sample Stage 5 scope and sequences for French, German and Italian on our website. We recommend you take a look at what's available for all languages, for both Stage 4 and Stage 5, to gather ideas which best suit your context and your students' needs.
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Website updates – new resources and professional learning options (TIPD)

12/10/2020

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Welcome to Term 4. We hope everyone had a relaxing break – most likely the first genuine break many of you have had all year! We’ve been busy taking the holiday period to add more content to our website, and even though we’ve been updating the blog and our virtual statewide staffroom in Yammer, we’re actually hoping you weren’t reading anything because you were so busy relaxing! So here it is again – all in one place, just in case you missed it.

Class party unit – Stage 4
Just in time for Term 4, we have developed a generic 10-week Stage 4 party unit. The unit has been especially designed to support you in differentiating and adjusting teaching, learning and assessment activities to support a range of students. You can find the unit on the Stages 4 and 5 section of our website, or we also added it to each of the language-specific Stages 4 and 5 pages.

Stage 4 Indonesian – Dining with Indonesian friends!
We have just published a unit starter (unit of work) and matching assessment task on "Dining out with Indonesian friends!", and updated the Stage 4 scope and sequence to align with these new resources.
The unit starter is fully resourced with everything you need to pick up and teach!
Access our support via the Stages 4 and 5 Indonesian page.

Stage 5 – new sample scope and sequences
New Stage 5 sample scope and sequences for Arabic, Chinese, Indonesian, Modern Greek and Spanish are now live. The Arabic sample is for students with prior learning and/or experience, so is a good example to view if you have this learner group in Stage 5.

Online collaboration – professional learning module (TIPD)
This TIPD module has been developed by teachers, for teachers. Set aside approximately 45 minutes to read the content and complete the reflection questions.
The module supports you to:
  • - select relevant online collaboration tools to support syllabus outcomes in the languages classroom
  • - connect students to other language learners
  • - connect with teaching colleagues to enhance language learning opportunities and outcomes through collaboration.
It can be accessed from our professional learning page.
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We're on YouTube!
Languages NSW has set up a new YouTube channel, with recordings of our past statewide staff meetings, including:
  • - our top 10 favourite assessment tasks
  • - language learning games
  • - blended learning
  • - assessment for learning.
Please subscribe – we will add more recordings each year.
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IT'S PARTY TIME!

21/9/2020

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Just in time for Term 4, we have developed a generic 10-week Stage 4 party unit.

The unit has been developed to support you in differentiating and adjusting teaching, learning and assessment activities to support a range of students.

Our aim was to provide you with key information, in a practical and user-friendly way.

Differentiation and adjustments depend on the individual students in your class, so we have included a comprehensive range of examples – you will need to modify these, or include your own, to support individual student needs.

​You can find the unit on the Stages 4 and 5 section of our website, under the heading Programming in Stages 4 and 5. Alternatively, it's on each of the language-specific Stages 4 and 5 pages.
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Do you know our website has support for teaching numeracy in languages?

3/9/2020

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It's important the numeracy activities are both age- and Stage-appropriate. For example, students in Stage 4 could explore activities in which they:
  • - read a menu in the target language and calculate total costs, discounts and percentages, such as tipping
  • - extract, interprets and comprehend a range of mathematical information in the target language from texts, tables, diagrams and graphs in a range of contexts, such as weather charts and transport timetables
  • - create budgets and cost items in a foreign currency, such as shopping for souvenirs
  • - applies knowledge of scale, distances and time zones to plan and budget an overseas travel itinerary.

​You can find sample numeracy activities for Stage 4 Chinese, French, German, Japanese and Spanish (NEW!) on the
Stages 4 and 5 section of our site. Scroll down the page to the 'Numeracy' heading.
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Resources for Stage 6 [Language] in Context courses

10/8/2020

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We have repurposed the content from the old HSC Online site to create 3 new Google sites to support the [Language] in Context courses (formerly Heritage). Access the sites from the appropriate sections of our website:
  • Chinese in Context
  • Japanese in Context
  • Korean in Context.
Due to furigana in Japanese, we had to upload content for Japanese as PDFs.
We hope you and your students find these resources helpful.
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What's new on our website?

27/7/2020

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We are continually updating our website, and we hope you have bookmarked it and check in regularly.

We have recently added:
- a student self-reflection tool, which explores the purpose of self-reflection in student learning and includes examples of self-reflection questions based on language learning. Visit our Stages 4 and 5 landing page, and scroll down to student self-reflection
- a new way to present assessment tasks to your students. Regardless of what language you teach, take a look at the sample on our Stage 4 Italian page, under sample assessment tasks. You'll see this online format includes the task, outcomes, directions and useful links for the student to follow. You'll also find advice for the students on creating and collaborating together from different locations and videos to spark inspiration
- our virtual excursion to the Eiffel Tower! Visit our Stage 4 French page to access our interactive website which explores the geography, history and culture of this iconic landmark, supporting students to learn and practise French virtually. Why not create your own?
- support for Stage 4 Arabic, German and Korean.
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HSC hub – Stage 6 languages Beginners and Continuers videos

24/7/2020

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The Languages and Culture team has developed videos with advice to students on how to approach the HSC Beginners and Continuers examinations. You can find the videos in the HSC hub, along with downloadable guides with advice for Beginners, Continuers, Extension, [Language] and Literature and [Language] in Context students. 
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The department's HSC hub contains high-quality, on-demand resources that teachers can provide to their students to help them prepare for their exams. Aligned to NSW syllabuses, the hub is a carefully curated central repository for items created by the NSW Department of Education, including Aurora College and WooTube. There is also third party material available. For copyright reasons, some items will require a NSW Department of Education log in. 
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Resources available for Stage 6 and HSC support reminder

12/6/2020

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With preparations for the HSC underway for Stage 6 students here is a reminder of the resources available in the Stage 6 languages section of the Department of Education's website to support our language students.

1. Listening and reading resources (adapted from the old HSC Online website) are available for most Beginners and Continuers courses. Navigate to your language and scroll down to sample listening and reading activities for the link. Questions, audio, sample responses and transcripts can be found here.
2. Sample speaking questions can be found under most Beginners and Continuers courses by scrolling to the practice speaking questions link.
​3. Advice for students in approaching the Beginners/Continuers/Extension HSC examinations – these can be found by navigating to your language, and the course from our Stage 6 curriculum page, under the heading Advice for students.

And don't forget to also check the Stage 6 teacher-contributed resources in our statewide staffroom in Yammer (staff only), including NSW School of Languages' guide to best practice for speaking lessons and the Languages and Culture teams' preparing students for the oral examinations in Beginners and Continuers advice.
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