Category: Sydney Greater West

Language Teachers Network – Sydney Greater West

26/5/2022

The Sydney Greater West Language Teachers Network is inviting everyone to their Term 2 meeting which will be held in Week 8. By attending this meeting, you will receive 2 hours of Elective professional development towards the maintenance of your accreditation.
The topic of the meeting is a follow up from the languages statewide staff meeting on 'purposeful assessment design'. If you did not attend the meeting in Week 4, you can catch up by watching the recording on the Languages NSW YouTube channel. We will use this time to work in language groups to work on some backwards mapping and discuss task ideas. If time allows, we will have a sharing session of report comments, so please bring some along to share with redacted/deleted names.

Enrol via MyPL:
Course code: NR25534
Name of session: Term 2 Greater Western Sydney Language Teachers Network
Date: Thursday 16 June 2022
Time: 4:00-6:00 pm – refreshments will be available from 3:30 pm
Venue: Castle Hill High School, E block – there will be signs to the meeting room. Please park at the RSL carpark, across the road from the school on Castle Street.

For further information, please contact the network leader, Alicia North.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Language Teachers Network – Sydney Greater West

17/3/2022

The Sydney Greater West network would like to invite you to the first meeting for 2022 on Tuesday 29 March. The focus of the meeting will be to get to know each other and the new network leader and a TeachMeet – share an activity or strategy that is currently working in your classroom. If you would like to share, please send an email to Alicia North to add to the agenda.

Enrol via MyPL and select the appropriate session:
Course code: NR18042
Session: Greater Western Sydney Term 1 2022 Meeting
Date: Tuesday 29 March 2022
Time: 4:00-5:00 pm - refreshments and a chat will be available from 3:30 pm.
Venue: James Ruse Agricultural High School, T2.1 (there will be signs up).
Parking: there is street parking available on Felton Rd, as well as Baker St (across the bus bay).

For more information, contact the network leader Alicia North.

Language Teacher Network – Sydney Greater West

28/10/2021

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.

Language Teacher Network – Sydney Greater West

26/5/2021

The Sydney Greater West Language Teachers' Network will hold its Term 2 meeting on Monday 7 June. The focus will be on:
- Working towards higher levels of accreditation as a Languages teacher.

It is essential that members register prior to attending this event.
Enrol via MyPL:
Course Code: NR25533
Session: Sydney Greater West Languages Network Meeting Term 2 2021
Date and time: Monday 7 June 3:30-5:00 pm
Topic: Working towards higher levels of accreditation as a Languages teacher
Venue: The Ponds High School Room E.28. This is located on the oval in the new demountable classrooms.

For more information contact the network leader Amanda Singh.

Language Teacher Network – Sydney Greater West

11/3/2021

The Sydney Greater West Language Teacher Network will hold its Term 1 meeting on Tuesday 23 March. The focus will be on Assessment tasks for Stage 4 (Stage 3 for primary teachers).
Each member is asked to bring an example of a Stage 4 assessment task. Primary teachers are also welcome and are encouraged to bring along a Stage 3 task.
It is essential that members register prior to attending this event.

Enrol via MyPL.
Course Code: NR25533
Session: Sydney Greater West Languages Network Meeting Term 1 2021
Date & time: Week 9, Tuesday 23 March 3:30-5:00 pm
Topic: Assessment tasks for Stage 4
Venue: The Ponds High School Room E.28. This is located on the oval.

For further information, contact the network leader Amanda Singh.

Sydney Greater West – Language Teachers’ Network Meeting

18/11/2020

The Sydney Greater West Language Teachers' Network will hold its Term 4 meeting on Wednesday 2 December.

The focus will be on:
- games in the languages classroom
- reflection of 2020 - sharing session. What worked? What didn't work? Plans for 2021.

Each member is asked to bring in a game they use in the classroom to share with colleagues. Members will be asked to demonstrate the use of the game during the session.

It is essential that members register prior to attending this event.
Enrol via MyPL
Course Code: NR25533
Session: Sydney Greater West Languages Network Meeting Term 4 2020
Date & time: Week 8, Wednesday 2 December 3:30pm
Agenda: Games in the languages classroom
Venue: The Ponds High School library

For more information contact the network leader Amanda Singh.

Postponed – Sydney Greater West Language Teacher Network meeting

17/3/2020

The Language Teacher Network meeting for Sydney Greater West, scheduled for Monday 30 March, has been postponed until further notice.

Language Teacher Network meeting – Sydney Greater West

15/3/2020

Sydney Greater West – Language Teacher Network will hold its Term 1 meeting on Monday 30 March. The meeting will focus on games and engaging learning activities. Members are asked to bring in a game they use in the classroom to share with their colleagues, summarised in half a page. Members will be able to showcase their games to the group, so that all members will gain further ideas that could be adapted for their classrooms. This session is suitable for both primary and high school language teachers.

Date: Monday 30 March
Time: 3:30-5:00pm
Venue: The Ponds High School – library

Please enrol via MyPL course code: NR25533 and select Language Network - Sydney Greater West Term 1 2020.

For further information, please contact Amanda Singh.

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.

Sydney Greater West Language Teacher Network – Term 3 meeting

27/8/2019

The Language Teacher Network – Sydney Greater West will hold its Term 3 meeting on Monday 9 September.

The meeting will run for 1.5 hours and contribute to 2.5 hours of registered professional learning on Languages and Stage 6 school-based assessment. To receive the registered hours, participants will need to:
- complete a short pre-task
- attend the meeting
- complete a post-task.

All language teachers living and/or working in the area are welcome to attend. DoE teachers are eligible to receive the registered hours; non-DoE teachers can include their meeting as Teacher Identified hours.

Date: Monday 9 September 2019
Time: 3:30-5:00pm
Venue: The Ponds High School – library
Enrol: Course code RG04979
Session name: The Ponds High School

For further information please contact Amanda Singh.