Category: Resources

7-10 programming support and resources – new language syllabuses

29/5/2019

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!

New resources for Stage 6 Language and Literature courses

16/8/2018

The NSW Department of Education has developed support materials for the following Stage 6 courses:
Chinese and Literature
Indonesian and Literature
Japanese and Literature
Korean and Literature.

The materials were developed by practising teachers in NSW public schools, and can be accessed from the education.nsw.gov.au website or via the links above.

NESA news - support materials for new K-10 Chinese and Japanese syllabuses

8/5/2018

Sample scope and sequences and sample units for the new Chinese K-10 Syllabus and Japanese K-10 Syllabus are now available.

These support materials have been developed for Early Stage 1 to Stage 5, to assist teachers to plan for implementation of the new Chinese and Japanese K-10 Syllabuses from 2019.

The sample units demonstrate a variety of approaches for teaching the new syllabuses and focus on a range of content.

The learning activities and resources included in the sample units may be used or adapted as appropriate. The sample units can be downloaded from the Chinese K-10 Syllabus and Japanese K-10 Syllabus pages of the NESA website.

For more information, contact:
Lyn Sully
Inspector, Languages
(02) 9367 8152

The Calendar for Cultural Diversity 2018 is now online

22/2/2018

The 2018 Calendar for Cultural Diversity is now online, providing a range of resource links and ideas for planning classroom and school activities that commemorate celebrations, national days, religious observances and other key events that promote intercultural understanding. Attached below is the 2018 Calendar for Cultural Diversity, and more resources can be found on the website.

calendar-culturaldiversity-2018.pdf
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Free SMART Boards available

25/1/2018

Alliance Française de Sydney has four SMART Boards to give away, having recently updated their technology.

The boards are SB 680 models, in good condition, and two of them also have projectors attached.

The boards are for pick-up only, from Alliance Française de Sydney's office at Clarence Street, Sydney.

If interested, please contact Laurie-Anne Pecqueux on 9292 5713.

Have you seen the updated curriculum website?

14/11/2017

New resources have been uploaded, including sample units of works and assessment tasks for French, Italian and Indonesian for Stages 4 and 5.

Sample numeracy tasks developed by teachers can also be accessed on the Stages 4 and 5 page.

The Stage 6 page has some new sample units of work for French Beginners and Indonesian Beginners.

New resources on the curriculum site

9/11/2017

New resources including units of works and scope and sequences for Stages 4 and 5 in Chinese, French, German and Spanish are now available.

Sample numeracy tasks developed by teachers can also be accessed on the Stages 4 and 5 page.

The Stage 6 page includes links to listening tasks for Beginners courses, some sample units of work and Extension materials.

If you have any resources you think teachers would value and you would like to share them on the Department's curriculum site please email janelle.byrne@det.nsw.edu.au

The new curriculum website

13/7/2017

The Languages and Culture team are updating the Stages 4-6 sections of the new curriculum website.

We are in the process of converting relevant resources which were available on the old CK12 website and HSC Online and making them compliant with the NSW government’s accessibility requirements. New resources are also being developed.

We would like to offer teachers the opportunity to share their resources. If you have an innovative unit of work, assessment task or resource that you would like to be published on the curriculum website, please email
janelle.byrne@det.nsw.edu.au, attaching the resources you would like considered for publication.

Your name and school would be credited on the publication.

We look forward to receiving and showcasing the wonderful work of languages teachers.

For future reference please bookmark the Languages page of the new website and explore some of the resources available.

Interactive whiteboard resources

23/5/2017

We have had many queries from teachers wishing to access copies of the interactive whiteboard resources which used to sit on the Curriculum K-12 website.

We are unable to house these resources on the NSW Department of Education's new curriculum website, as they cannot be made accessible under the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA, which are endorsed by the NSW Government.

NSW public school teachers can continue to access the resources through the Languages NSW - Resources group on Yammer.

Non-government teachers can access the resources through networking with colleagues, as we are unable to provide public access on this occasion.

Resource requests - European Languages

17/2/2017

Due to a high level of demand, requests for the resources advertised earlier this month are still being processed and cannot be answered individually.

Please note that priority will be given to requests from Department of Education schools.

Please contact Michelle Walls if you have any questions.